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reACTIONary

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Sun Aug 15, 2021, 10:05 PM Aug 2021

It Was a Terrifying Census for White Nationalists

By Charles M. Blow, New York Times

For some of us, the census data released on Thursday was fascinating. For others, it was, I would presume, downright frightening.

Much of what we have seen in recent years — the rise of Donald Trump, xenophobia and racist efforts to enshrine or at least extend white power by packing the courts and suppressing minority votes — has been rooted in a fear of political, cultural and economic displacement.

The white power acolytes saw this train approaching from a distance — the browning of America, the shrinking of the white population and the explosion of the nonwhite — and they did everything they could to head it off.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/15/opinion/united-states-census-white.html

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It Was a Terrifying Census for White Nationalists (Original Post) reACTIONary Aug 2021 OP
They can't stop it. Come around about 2040 the nation... brush Aug 2021 #1
Regadlesss of your race, gender, religion, or any other thing that people use to divide us... Binkie The Clown Aug 2021 #2
these people never figure out Skittles Aug 2021 #3

brush

(53,776 posts)
1. They can't stop it. Come around about 2040 the nation...
Sun Aug 15, 2021, 10:22 PM
Aug 2021

will be minority majority company, with no ethic group being more than 50% of the population. Why those under 18 are already less than half white and POCs are continuing to have more babies.

The writing is already on the wall. And just maybe racism will begin to fade also when on group doesn't feel so entitled, that it's their country...even though it was stolen and much of the labor for three centuries was done in the several southern states with stolen labor.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
2. Regadlesss of your race, gender, religion, or any other thing that people use to divide us...
Sun Aug 15, 2021, 10:45 PM
Aug 2021

...Climate change will kill us all.

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