Rise of Latino population blurs US racial lines
WASHINGTON (AP) — Welcome to the new off-white America.
A historic decline in the number of U.S. whites and the fast growth of Latinos are blurring traditional black-white color lines, testing the limits of civil rights laws and reshaping political alliances as "whiteness" begins to lose its numerical dominance.
Long in coming, the demographic shift was most vividly illustrated in last November's re-election of President Barack Obama, the first black president, despite a historically low percentage of white supporters.
It's now a potent backdrop to the immigration issue being debated in Congress that could offer a path to citizenship for 11 million mostly Hispanic illegal immigrants. Also, the Supreme Court is deciding cases this term on affirmative action and voting rights that could redefine race and equality in the U.S.
The latest census data and polling from The Associated Press highlight the historic change in a nation in which non-Hispanic whites will lose their majority in the next generation, somewhere around the year 2043.
Despite being a nation of immigrants, America's tip to a white minority has never occurred in its 237-year history and will be a first among the world's major post-industrial societies. Brazil, a developing nation, has crossed the threshold to "majority-minority" status; a few cities in France and England are near, if not past that point.
The international experience and recent U.S. events point to an uncertain future for American race relations.
In Brazil, where multiracialism is celebrated, social mobility remains among the world's lowest for blacks while wealth is concentrated among whites at the top. In France, race is not recorded on government census forms and people share a unified Gallic identity, yet high levels of racial discrimination persist.
"The American experience has always been a story of color. In the 20th century it was a story of the black-white line. In the 21st century we are moving into a new off-white moment," says Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, a global expert on immigration and dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.
"Numerically, the U.S. is being transformed. The question now is whether our institutions are being transformed," he said.
The shift is being driven by the modern wave of U.S. newcomers from Latin America and Asia. Their annual inflow of 650,000 people since 1965, at a rate that's grown in recent years, surpasses the pace of the last great immigration wave a century ago. That influx, from 1820 to 1920, brought in Irish, Germans, Italians and Jews from Europe and made the gateway of Ellis Island, N.Y., an immigrant landmark, symbolizing freedom, liberty and the American dream.
An equal factor is today's aging white population, mostly baby boomers, whose coming wave of retirements will create a need for first- and second-generation immigrants to help take their place in the workforce.
The numbers already demonstrate that being white is fading as a test of American-ness:
—More U.S. babies are now born to minorities than whites, a milestone reached last year.
—More than 45 percent of students in kindergarten through 12th grade are minorities. The Census Bureau projects that in five years the number of nonwhite children will surpass 50 percent.
—The District of Columbia, Hawaii, California, New Mexico and Texas have minority populations greater than 50 percent. By 2020, eight more states are projected to join the list: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey and New York. Latinos already outnumber whites in New Mexico; California will tip to a Latino plurality next year.
—By 2039, racial and ethnic minorities will make up a majority of the U.S. working-age population, helping to support a disproportionately elderly white population through Social Security and other payroll taxes. More than 1 in 4 people ages 18-64 will be Latino.
—The white population, now at 197.8 million, is projected to peak at 200 million in 2024, before entering a steady decline in absolute numbers. Currently 63 percent of the U.S. population, the white share is expected to drop below 50 percent by 2043, when racial and ethnic minorities will collectively become a U.S. majority. Hispanics will drive most of the minority growth, due mostly to high birth rates, jumping in share from 17 percent to 26 percent.
The pace of assimilation for today's Latinos and Asian-Americans is often compared with that of the Poles, Irish, Italians and Jews who arrived around the turn of the 20th century and eventually merged into an American white mainstream.
There was a backlash. By the 1930s, an immigrant-weary America had imposed strict quotas and closed its borders. Those newly arrived were pushed to conform and blend in with a white mainstream, benefiting from New Deal economic programs that generally excluded blacks. The immigration quotas also cut off the supply of new workers to ethnic enclaves and reduced social and economic contacts between immigrants and their countries of origin.
"America of the Melting Pot comes to End," read a 1924 opinion headline in The New York Times. The author, a U.S. senator, pledged that strict new immigration quotas would "preserve racial type as it exists here today."
Today, data show that Latinos are embracing U.S. life but also maintaining strong ties to their heritage, aided by a new stream of foreign-born immigrants who arrive each year. Hispanics, officially an ethnic group, strive to learn English and 1 in 4 intermarry, taking a white spouse.
Nowadays, immigrants face less pressure to conform than did their counterparts from a century ago. Latinos are protected as a minority, benefiting from the 1950s civil rights movement pioneered by blacks. Nearly 40 percent of Latinos now resist a white identity on census forms, checking a box indicating "some other race" to establish a Hispanic race identity.
While growing diversity is often a step toward a post-racial U.S., sociologists caution that the politics of racial diversity could just as easily become more magnified.
A first-of-its-kind AP poll conducted in 2011 found that a slight majority of whites expressed racial bias against Hispanics and that their attitudes were similar to or even greater than the bias they held toward blacks. Hispanics also remained somewhat residentially segregated from whites in lower-income neighborhoods, hurt in part by the disappearance of good-paying, midskill manufacturing jobs that helped white ethnics rise into the middle class during most of the 20th century.
The AP survey was conducted with researchers from Stanford University, the University of Michigan and NORC at the University of Chicago.
Harvard economist George Borjas projects that by 2030, the children of today's immigrants will earn on average 10 percent to 15 percent less than nonimmigrant Americans, based on past trends, and that Latinos will particularly struggle because of high rates of poverty, lack of citizenship and lower rates of education. In 1940, the children of early 20th-century white ethnics fared much better on average, earning 21.4 percent more than nonimmigrants.
About 35 percent of Hispanic babies are currently born into poverty, compared with 41 percent of blacks and 20 percent for whites.
"How America responds now to the new challenges of racial and ethnic diversity will determine whether it becomes a more open and inclusive society in the future — one that provides equal opportunities and justice for all," said Daniel Lichter, a Cornell sociologist and past president of the Population Association of America.
The demographic shift has spurred debate as to whether some civil-rights era programs, such as affirmative action in college admissions, should begin to focus on income level rather than race or ethnicity. The Supreme Court will rule on the issue by late June.
Following a racially lopsided re-election, Obama has spoken broadly about promoting social and economic opportunity. In his State of the Union speech, he said that rebuilding the middle class is "our generation's task." Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a rising star of a mostly white Republican party now eager to attract Latino voters, is courting supporters in both English and Spanish in part by pledging programs that would boost "social mobility."
Left unclear is how much of a role government can or should play in lifting the disadvantaged, in an era of strapped federal budgets and rising debt.
The Latino immigrants include Irma Guereque, 60, of Las Vegas, who says enjoying a middle-class life is what's most important to her.
Things turned bad for the Mexico native in the recent recession after her work hours as a food server were cut at the Texas Station casino off the Strip. As a result, she couldn't make the mortgage payments on a spacious house she purchased and was forced to move into an apartment with her grandchildren.
While she's getting almost full-time hours now, money is often on her mind. Her finances mean retirement is hardly an option, even though she's got diabetes and is getting older.
Many politicians are "only thinking of the rich, and not the poor, and that's not right," Guereque said in Spanish. "We need opportunities for everyone."
A historic decline in the number of U.S. whites and the fast growth of Latinos are blurring traditional black-white color lines, testing the limits of civil rights laws and reshaping political alliances as "whiteness" begins to lose its numerical dominance.
Long in coming, the demographic shift was most vividly illustrated in last November's re-election of President Barack Obama, the first black president, despite a historically low percentage of white supporters.
It's now a potent backdrop to the immigration issue being debated in Congress that could offer a path to citizenship for 11 million mostly Hispanic illegal immigrants. Also, the Supreme Court is deciding cases this term on affirmative action and voting rights that could redefine race and equality in the U.S.
The latest census data and polling from The Associated Press highlight the historic change in a nation in which non-Hispanic whites will lose their majority in the next generation, somewhere around the year 2043.
Despite being a nation of immigrants, America's tip to a white minority has never occurred in its 237-year history and will be a first among the world's major post-industrial societies. Brazil, a developing nation, has crossed the threshold to "majority-minority" status; a few cities in France and England are near, if not past that point.
The international experience and recent U.S. events point to an uncertain future for American race relations.
In Brazil, where multiracialism is celebrated, social mobility remains among the world's lowest for blacks while wealth is concentrated among whites at the top. In France, race is not recorded on government census forms and people share a unified Gallic identity, yet high levels of racial discrimination persist.
"The American experience has always been a story of color. In the 20th century it was a story of the black-white line. In the 21st century we are moving into a new off-white moment," says Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, a global expert on immigration and dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.
"Numerically, the U.S. is being transformed. The question now is whether our institutions are being transformed," he said.
The shift is being driven by the modern wave of U.S. newcomers from Latin America and Asia. Their annual inflow of 650,000 people since 1965, at a rate that's grown in recent years, surpasses the pace of the last great immigration wave a century ago. That influx, from 1820 to 1920, brought in Irish, Germans, Italians and Jews from Europe and made the gateway of Ellis Island, N.Y., an immigrant landmark, symbolizing freedom, liberty and the American dream.
An equal factor is today's aging white population, mostly baby boomers, whose coming wave of retirements will create a need for first- and second-generation immigrants to help take their place in the workforce.
The numbers already demonstrate that being white is fading as a test of American-ness:
—More U.S. babies are now born to minorities than whites, a milestone reached last year.
—More than 45 percent of students in kindergarten through 12th grade are minorities. The Census Bureau projects that in five years the number of nonwhite children will surpass 50 percent.
—The District of Columbia, Hawaii, California, New Mexico and Texas have minority populations greater than 50 percent. By 2020, eight more states are projected to join the list: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey and New York. Latinos already outnumber whites in New Mexico; California will tip to a Latino plurality next year.
—By 2039, racial and ethnic minorities will make up a majority of the U.S. working-age population, helping to support a disproportionately elderly white population through Social Security and other payroll taxes. More than 1 in 4 people ages 18-64 will be Latino.
—The white population, now at 197.8 million, is projected to peak at 200 million in 2024, before entering a steady decline in absolute numbers. Currently 63 percent of the U.S. population, the white share is expected to drop below 50 percent by 2043, when racial and ethnic minorities will collectively become a U.S. majority. Hispanics will drive most of the minority growth, due mostly to high birth rates, jumping in share from 17 percent to 26 percent.
The pace of assimilation for today's Latinos and Asian-Americans is often compared with that of the Poles, Irish, Italians and Jews who arrived around the turn of the 20th century and eventually merged into an American white mainstream.
There was a backlash. By the 1930s, an immigrant-weary America had imposed strict quotas and closed its borders. Those newly arrived were pushed to conform and blend in with a white mainstream, benefiting from New Deal economic programs that generally excluded blacks. The immigration quotas also cut off the supply of new workers to ethnic enclaves and reduced social and economic contacts between immigrants and their countries of origin.
"America of the Melting Pot comes to End," read a 1924 opinion headline in The New York Times. The author, a U.S. senator, pledged that strict new immigration quotas would "preserve racial type as it exists here today."
Today, data show that Latinos are embracing U.S. life but also maintaining strong ties to their heritage, aided by a new stream of foreign-born immigrants who arrive each year. Hispanics, officially an ethnic group, strive to learn English and 1 in 4 intermarry, taking a white spouse.
Nowadays, immigrants face less pressure to conform than did their counterparts from a century ago. Latinos are protected as a minority, benefiting from the 1950s civil rights movement pioneered by blacks. Nearly 40 percent of Latinos now resist a white identity on census forms, checking a box indicating "some other race" to establish a Hispanic race identity.
While growing diversity is often a step toward a post-racial U.S., sociologists caution that the politics of racial diversity could just as easily become more magnified.
A first-of-its-kind AP poll conducted in 2011 found that a slight majority of whites expressed racial bias against Hispanics and that their attitudes were similar to or even greater than the bias they held toward blacks. Hispanics also remained somewhat residentially segregated from whites in lower-income neighborhoods, hurt in part by the disappearance of good-paying, midskill manufacturing jobs that helped white ethnics rise into the middle class during most of the 20th century.
The AP survey was conducted with researchers from Stanford University, the University of Michigan and NORC at the University of Chicago.
Harvard economist George Borjas projects that by 2030, the children of today's immigrants will earn on average 10 percent to 15 percent less than nonimmigrant Americans, based on past trends, and that Latinos will particularly struggle because of high rates of poverty, lack of citizenship and lower rates of education. In 1940, the children of early 20th-century white ethnics fared much better on average, earning 21.4 percent more than nonimmigrants.
About 35 percent of Hispanic babies are currently born into poverty, compared with 41 percent of blacks and 20 percent for whites.
"How America responds now to the new challenges of racial and ethnic diversity will determine whether it becomes a more open and inclusive society in the future — one that provides equal opportunities and justice for all," said Daniel Lichter, a Cornell sociologist and past president of the Population Association of America.
The demographic shift has spurred debate as to whether some civil-rights era programs, such as affirmative action in college admissions, should begin to focus on income level rather than race or ethnicity. The Supreme Court will rule on the issue by late June.
Following a racially lopsided re-election, Obama has spoken broadly about promoting social and economic opportunity. In his State of the Union speech, he said that rebuilding the middle class is "our generation's task." Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a rising star of a mostly white Republican party now eager to attract Latino voters, is courting supporters in both English and Spanish in part by pledging programs that would boost "social mobility."
Left unclear is how much of a role government can or should play in lifting the disadvantaged, in an era of strapped federal budgets and rising debt.
The Latino immigrants include Irma Guereque, 60, of Las Vegas, who says enjoying a middle-class life is what's most important to her.
Things turned bad for the Mexico native in the recent recession after her work hours as a food server were cut at the Texas Station casino off the Strip. As a result, she couldn't make the mortgage payments on a spacious house she purchased and was forced to move into an apartment with her grandchildren.
While she's getting almost full-time hours now, money is often on her mind. Her finances mean retirement is hardly an option, even though she's got diabetes and is getting older.
Many politicians are "only thinking of the rich, and not the poor, and that's not right," Guereque said in Spanish. "We need opportunities for everyone."
I am all for people who come here legally, learn the language, respect our country and makes something of themselves BUT I do have a probably with having to push "1" for English, I also have a problem with store fronts having their sign in spanish and I also have a problem with forms being both English and Spanish. I have no problems with hispanics all I am saying is that we shouldn't forget that this is still America.
Until everyone accepts the fact that the system until now has discriminated (legally and illegally) against minorities we wont move forward. We have to educate minorities to become the productive members of society we will depend on. Doing anything less than that is perpetuating the prison system which is tax payer funded (you and I mostly) and we will continue to fall behind other nations on quality of education. The system has a built-in bias against minorities and it has to be eradicated from the roots.Â
So, here is the opportunity for white USA to do something good for our children and grandchildren and INVEST in the education and assimilation of minorities will follow and let's do this before it is too late.Â
But if you don't want to do the smart thing, WE MINORITIES WILL DO IT our own way and you will be remembered as the "bias generation" that missed the chance and the future of your children and grandchildren will look more like the exodus we read about.Â
YOUR CHOICES ARE; HELP NOW OR MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE LATER, OR LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES! Complaining or b@#$%% about it won't do you any good!
@Socialjusticeforall I am all for immigration and integration. LEGAL immigration. Those who come into this country documented and PAY TAXES for the services they use. NOT those who sneak across the border then take all they can get for FREE.
I'm all about investing in all children's education.. However you sound very biased and bitter in your statement. I pay my taxes, I take care of my kids, and I contribute to my community.
Your statement makes me out to be the bad guy for one reason... I'm white and I take care of my kids and my community. Sounds like you're mad at me and others like me for finishing High School, joining the service, and going to college to make something of myself. My folks were never rich! I had to pay my way but they were very supportive of my sisters and I for going out and making something of ourselves. My father has a 7th grade education and my mom never finished high school. But they own their own home and they are comforable in their retirement.
You sound like you feel "entitled" and that we're supposed to "fund" you and others like you. That's wrong. Go out and earn it! I had too!
it is discrimination to not have the same for whites as everyone else!! I have paid my way for years and so have my husband. He makes $30 an hour and I have been making 60k a year. It is about equality give it to all or no one!!!! You are awful presumptious.
@SocialjusticeforallWhatever.... I say kick all the illegals out NOW.
@Stock Woodie @Socialjusticeforall  do your best to stay on topic. I know it's hard, little one.
More new voters for Obama's dictatorship.
@Geronimo Jones  poor baby... having to post here from your cell in the gulag....
Ok, so whites are minorites now.  So where is the UWCF united white college fund, and the WET channel white entertainment network on cable. Where is the white get priority on jobs???
@trulylovedÂ
I AM SURE THE WHITE BANKERS WILL LEND YOU MONEY TO START A NEW COLONY!
Some of you people are just plain idiots! Â As far as I know we are all biologically compatible, with just a few minor 'visual variations'. Â The way some of you racist bigots act one would think these 'other people' are from a different planet. Â Get a grip and a life, learn a few things and do yourselves a favor... quit making yourselves look like fools. Â The rest of us are laughing at you ignorant bozos.
@PlumBUSTED! I don't know who the "rest of us" are, but everyone I know is 100% for kicking illegals out of this country. Sure, we'll let them back it legally, but for now, out with them.
@PlumBUSTED! actually we are biologically different. american indians lack the enzyme to process alcohol which is why so many are alcoholics.  "The tolerance to alcohol is not equally distributed throughout the world's population, and genetics of alcohol dehydrogenase indicate resistance has arisen independently in different ethnic groups.[2] People of European descent on average have a high alcohol tolerance and are less likely to develop alcoholism compared to Aboriginal Australians, and Native Americans.["   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_tolerance
We can finally stop concentrating on what divides us (a mechanism that politicians constantly abuse to gain votes), and concentrate on what unites us, and what the majority of American citizens want.
@UtterReality ...and look what we got. Obama. What a joke.
@Stock Woodie @UtterReality what an angry world it is under your manhole cover..
@tufa23 @Stock Woodie @UtterReality Just being realistic. The world is not made up of sugar plums and unicorns. I definitely do not have an "everyone's a winner" attitude.
I think the most telling comment in the article is where they say, "The demographic shift has spurred debate as to whether some civil-rights era programs, such as affirmative action in college admissions, should begin to focus on income level rather than race or ethnicity. The Supreme Court will rule on the issue by late June." I think that would be a great step forward. If this change doesn't happen then eventually only the wealthy will be educated and we'll see an even greater decline in the middle class. If we want to change the movement that has the "haves" getting more and the "have nots" getting less then we really need a change in our viewpoint regarding the importance of education for everyone. Low high school graduation rates for any group is totally unacceptable.
Here's a fun little statistic for everyone
If you ever need assistance while in a life threatening situation a hispanic person is 2x more likely to help you than a caucasian and an african american is 8x more likely to render help than a caucasian.
Even if you don't deserve it.
@sunnysandiego Where did you get this statistic from?  I'd be more interested in seeing this broken down by financial lines.  People with assets are so paranoid about getting sued these days (hence the apparent need to implement good samaritan laws).
@UtterReality @sunnysandiego Being sued is a huge deal... There definitely should be protection for being a good Samaritan. The problem is, some people are really dumb and do dumb things when they actually think they are "helping" the situation.
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@Common Sense @sunnysandiego Clearly no racism in your family, Common Nonsense: you inherited it all!
@Common Sense @sunnysandiego and a caucasian is 100 x more likely to shoot off his own nuts trying to shoot his weapon
What does it matter who the majority is, man is a rapidly breeding himself out of existence. If we ever experience WW3 it will bring about mass starvation on a scale never imagined. The crops needed to feed man now are balanced precariously and if that scale was ever interrupted..watch out.
@joefuss Unfortunately, it's quite true. We probably need some sort of "extermination" to reduce the global population by about 4 billion (at least).
We should all line up for our entitlement checks (and other free things) in Bejing. They must have a very impressive EEO office too.  So, who wants to buy the first ticket to China?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_of_the_world's_population_are_white
How many people of the world's population are white?There are approximately 1.376 billion 'white' people in the world, approximately 20.25% of the world's population.
@Charlie Chan Fan Looked at that link and it is off. Whomever pull together those stats provided bad information. No mention of those from the region of the Middle East. No mention of Russia. Honestly, I don't really care how many of who are where as long as people are peaceful and decent.
I remember years ago when the census came it only ask how many people were in your household and they should have left it at that. This need to keep dividing the races keeps this problem in the forefront. It shouldn't have become a problem to begin with. There are good/bad, rich/poor, educated and non educated people in this country across all racial lines but the government and the news media seem to be bent and determined to keep the race issues going.
@Jatok You must be REALLY old to remember a census that only asked how many people were living in a household. The census has been asking demographic questions for many decades.
Yes Furd, I've been around for a long time.Â
Anone know where they can get Birkenstock's repaired in the Spokane area ?
The facts are in and the numbers show the fast changing demographics in the US. The facts also show that minorities are way behind on education and accumulated wealth (or lack thereof), and I am not going to get into the reasons why, but we need to ensure that minorities get a better education so they can become the future engineers and doctors we need. The dropout rate for Hispanic High School students is almost 50% and at that rate the country will have many millions of uneducated adults and millions more prison inmates. Of course, the private prison industry loves the idea, but the cost to all of us and our children and grandchildren will be enormous and I believe that Latinos alone could bankrupt this country in the next few decades if we don't change the current direction of their poor education and assimilation. Think about it before answering!Â
@Socialjusticeforall We have heard this story before, SocialInjustice, in the more than quarter century following WW-II and in the context of the African-American community and population. It was used as a "justification" for suppression of that ethnic group via continuance of status-quo institutionalized racism. Fortunately, more than a few men and women had sufficient insight to see through the malicious innuendo - helped no doubt by media images of police riots, police murders and KKK lynchings in the Old South. The results included deployment of the National Guard to enforce existing anti-discrimination law and enactment of additional anti-discrimination law at the federal and eventually also state level - including EEO laws and that Affirmative Action concept that diehard racists masquerading as "conservatives" have railed against ever since.
I'll say what I said to Common Nonsense above: there must surely be no racism left in your family - as you seem to have inherited it all!
@Socialjusticeforall
I think many of us have seen what the âpower of moneyâ can do and the despair that exists when there is a lack of it.Somehow I donât think that the high profile issue of the future will have a lot to do with white vs. non-white populations.It will most likely boil down to âthose who haveâ vs. âthose who donâtâ.When all of the races on earth share âwantâ as a common denominator, perhaps only then can true progress for all human beings start to be made. And THAT struggle of the âhavesâ vs. the âhave-notsâ will surpass anything weâve seen thus far in the evolution of mankind.
So how do you suggest white America and government assimilate Latinos? Force them to be more "whiter"? Force them to speak English and reject their culture?
@equalityforallandone The Latino populations are already assimilating themselves into American culture. When you emigrate to a new country, it IS traditional to speak the language of that country and NOT force others to learn your language. And I am speaking of CURRENT politics not long dead arguments. I could not expect to move to France and expect them to learn my language, no matter how many Americans immigrated. As far as their culture? Who is stopping them from practicing cultural beliefs? I certainly am not, as far as I know, none of their traditions have been outlawed...are you aware of any?Â
@Susabelle @equalityforallandone Hmm, then why do we not speak Navajo or Cherokee or Souix or .....
@S_Hunter @Susabelle @equalityforallandone In other words, if someone does not already know YOUR language, you would prefer that they REMAIN IGNORANT.Â
It must be just terribly inconvenient for you to have to wade through all those other languages that are almost always printer AFTER the English text!
@S_Hunter @Susabelle @equalityforallandone That is what I was trying to say. I would not expect to move to another country and not learn the language, that seems very arrogant to me. If you want to keep a language alive in a new country, buy all means speak it at home and with friends and family etc...but you need to be able to be functional in the language of your adopted country and NOT expect those to learn your language.
@Susabelle @equalityforallandone Except, it seems that here we have to learn their language. I agree with them keeping their culture alive, HOWEVER, I don't agree with learning "another country's language" and incorporating that language into our society THE WAY IT IS. Alot of things (paperwork for ME) i get requires me to go thru several paragraphs before I get to the ENGLISH part that I can understand. If I move to Mexico. they wouldn't do that there. They would simply say. "learn our language or go home"Â
@equalityforallandone: Â You missed the point. Â Socialjusticeforall merely pointed out the problem. Â That being Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities need to be helped from falling short on education and skills. Â He didn't suggest any plans to accomplish this, just pointed out a very real problem. Â For example: Â He stated that Hispanic high school students have a dropout rate of about 50%%. Â I don't know how accurate that number is but anything less than a 90%% graduation rate is totally unacceptable for any race or ethnic background.
@usnrbb That's a parental and a cultural problem.  The government can only do so much in these types of situations.
@usnrbb Well, if people don't want to apply themselves and help make their lives easier through education, they shouldn't expect to have the same or a similar lifestyle as people who do. They shouldn't complain because others have greater resources. They shouldn't turn to a life of crime either to get what they want.
I forgot, what year was it when the world's population became dominately white? In a global sense, it seem's like the white race has been a minority race for a very long time. Apparently, a non-white majority of people have made our planet is such a pleasant place to live. So, who's complaining?
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White people wouldn't be anything but cave dwellers if it weren't for their exploitation of minorities. There would be nothing wrong with having a nonwhite majority worldwide, as a matter of fact I think it would be quite refreshing from the bigotry and racism of the past.
@equalityforallandone OH PLEASE! Bigotry and racism exist with ALL races, not just whites! As long as a person's race is part of the picture, we will always have a racial problem.
equalityofoutcome (it should be equalityofopportunity), the majority of the world is "nonwhite" (non-white). You seem to be racist and bigoted towards white people; are you feeling inferior/
@ltfd NICE!
No such thing as whites anyways. My family are natives of Germany and we ain't any whiter than anybody else. The birthplace of man was in Africa according to scientists. Not many white people there when man first started moving out of caves.
@Blindman One of the most honest and intelligent posts I have seen from your keyboard! (depending perhaps on your intent.)Â
The is in fact but ONE "race". Differences developed over millennia as populations diverged, became semi-isolated, and encountered differences in climate that augured for differences in hair and skin pigmentation primarily for advantages in survival. With global travel and intermingling, these differences are simply beginning to meld and disappear, more or less. Some people find that threatening.Â
@Blindman BOOYAH!
You and your family ain't whiter than nobody else? Is this another way white people use to shift the blame from them to the human race? You are white, and your ancestors have directly or indirectly discriminated against Africans, Asians, and Native Americans.
@equalityforallandone
Are you kidding me? So I'm being held responsible for the actions of my ancestors? In tribes you fought you took over and killed off most of the men. The women and children either became part of the conquerors or were in turn killed off. Look at the divide amongst the muslims in the world.. But as you have stated.. "If you're white it's your fault"..
I'm afraid it's people like you that keep the bias, racist bigotry alive and well.. You should get educated and learn how to work for some thing and towards something rather than sit at home and feel the whole world owes you something because your ancestors were forced over here on a boat.
equalityofoutcome, your grammar ain't that polished, but I'll play along anyway. Are you aware that other "races" (colors of people) have practiced discrimination throughout history? You apparently ain't doin' enough studying.Â
@equalityforallandone I don't know if you're aware of this, but at some point in history virtually everybody has discriminated against somebody else. This isn't exclusive.Â
@equalityforallandone And his Germanic line was indiscriminately attacked and taken over by Roman invaders...Â
@equalityforallandone Well honestly, the horrors that imperialist visited upon foreign soils were perfected at home on their own. Look at this another way as well. Hilter committed genocide against the Jews, who like him are white. The difference was in religion ethnicity and values. It never stops, vicious greedy people will always find an excuse.
@equalityforallandone I cant? and why pray tell cant I? After all, Germanic people had no rights, they were just savages and the Romans took what resources they wanted. They also practiced enslaving the people they didnt slaughter...Â
You cannot honestly compare the Roman invasion of Germanic tribes to the invasions and plundering of minority lands and peoples.
@equalityforallandone He is saying that there really isn't individual races given genetic history. Also, to be fair, White people have oppressed each other as well. Just look at the history or Europe and serfs.
@PollywannacrackerBOOYAH AGAIN! equalityforallandone must be part of this "racial tension" he/she keeps whining about.