Comments on: Finally, we’ve got enough white people and can now move on to other things!

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 19 May 2012 12:40:51 +0000

In reply to Alan(UK). Alan, yes, this is one of those things that is not just food for thought. More like a banquet. I dont think the figures are really misleading, as much as one dimensional.

By: Alan(UK)

Alan(UK) — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:13:32 +0000

The figures seem rather contrived. The US population consists of people from many groups. Some minorities have always been there. Some Hispanics are there because the US bought the land they happened to be standing on. In times past, it was the ‘white’ eastern-Europeans who were the despised minority. What about the Jews? the Irish? the Italians? Who is a minority? Could the ‘problem’ not be solved by counting each black birth as three-fifths of a white one? (I jest.) The definition of ‘white’ seems to imply that everyone with a half-caste for a grandfather is ‘black’. More insidious is the implication that there is a group of pure-blooded Americans, unsullied by the tar-brush, who are in some way special. Worse still is the implication that these people are the only true Americans.

By: PaulG

PaulG — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:37:57 +0000

The last time this happened was about a century ago and then we just decided that italians could be white too. Problem solved. I vote to make hispanics white. (Honestly, why do people care? This makes about as much sense as the “gay marriage is a threat to straight marriage” idea).

By: Stacy

Stacy — Fri, 18 May 2012 05:27:36 +0000

Markita, some “Hispanics” aren’t hispanic at all, but descended (at least in part) from native American populations of Mexico and Central and South America.

By: Markita Lynda—damn climate change!

Markita Lynda—damn climate change! — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:55:20 +0000

Hispanic really should translate into European = white anyway.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:26:09 +0000

But there must be at least a plurality of somebody.

By: Nemo

Nemo — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:10:02 +0000

We’re all minorities now.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:55:54 +0000

LGBT births – holding steady at… well, whatever… its no doubt holding steady.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:59:56 +0000

The onion covered that angle in their take off on the story.

By: peicurmudgeon

peicurmudgeon — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:55:44 +0000

The story should be edited to read ‘for the first time since…’. It was at some point after 1500 that ‘white’ births surpassed ‘non-white’ births.