After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.

Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on Thursday, while minorities — including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of mixed race — reached 50.4 percent, representing a majority for the first time in the country’s history.

It’s about time. I was getting really tired of all these white people everywhere.

But it must be done correctly.

I remember once waiting to get on an El Al flight from New York to Tel Aviv, with a connection to Nairobi and Johannesberg. My ticket would bring me to Nairobi, where I would seek transport to the Congo (then Zaire) via a small charter plane or something. I would not be returning for many months (close to a year) so even if I knew when I was coming back, I could not have bought, at that time, a round trip ticket. So I had only a one way ticket. To the middle of Africa.

As I plodded forward in line, I noticed a very tall black man, an American, wearing a huge giant cowboy hat, and speaking rather loudly in a Texas accent. It thought to my self, “This guy is going to have a hard time getting on this plane.” I had profiled him, in a sense. But when he got up to security, he pulled out his Israeli passport (he was, it turns out, a former American citizen, now a citizen of Israel) and passed through with no problems. When I arrived to that checkpoint, they took one look at my ticket and my passport and virtually arrested me. I was hounded by Isreali security operatives for the hours before the flight, separated from my American traveling companion so we could be grilled separately, and interviewed by several different agents. When we finally got to Tel Aviv, we were detained in an a windowless locked room for the four or so hours between flights, then watched carefully when we boarded the plane.

Months later, in a conversation with a highly placed Israeli government official that happened to be a friend of mine, I found out why; Only a few years earlier, a bunch of guys got on a plane leaving Tel Aviv, with one way tickets to somewhere, and hijacked the plane to a point only a few hundred kilometers from where I was going. Remember the Air France hijacking and the raid on Entebbe? When my friend told me that, I suddenly remembered mentioning Entebbe during one of the interrogations, during which they were asking me how I would get to Zaire … because it did, in fact, usually involve a stop in that Ugandan city.

Essentially, I had done the equivalent of going to a suburb of Oklahoma City soon after the bombing there, renting a Ryder truck, and when they ask what kind of insurance I wanted, saying “None. I don’t expect to be returning the truck in one piece anyway. Oh, and can you give me directions to the nearest Federal Building?”

The moral of that story is that the Israeli security people are much better at “profiling” than I am. They spotted some people with a suspicious itinerary. Had the American security people been on the ball with itineraries, they may have prevented 9/11, where several guys who had a loose association independently bought plane tickets using an overlapping set of credit cars (or whatever, I don’t remember the details).

Here’s another one: On the way back from that very trip, I ended up travelling through Frankfurt, and I remember someone … an old man … helping out a younger woman. The woman had a carry-on and a purse, and now she also had a bag of stuff she had bought in the Duty Free shop. Then, she discovered that she could not carry on three things, so this old guy she didn’t even know offered to carry her bag of duty free items for her. I was right there when the security person asked him (this was back in the days when they still did this) if he was carrying anything given to him by someone else. Even though he was, he said “no” and was let on the plane with this young woman’s bottles of liquor. Which could have been bombs. So, right there is a BAD example of profiling. The security people should have known, old people can be easily fooled into carrying stuff they are not supposed to be carrying.

There is a further irony to that flight. It was Pan Am 103 to NY I was boarding. The flight I boarded was the one a few days before the one that was blown up by a bomb in the luggage. (Close call,right?!)

So, profiling can make a difference, you just have to know what and whom to look for. White males between the ages of 20 and 35 are responsible for a large amount of crime, and can probably be recruited into a number of different causes. Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, you know the type. Old people can’t be trusted. Young white women, like the one who apparently carried the luggage that blew up Pan Am 103 are clearly a danger. Brownish people like the ones who were involved in 9/11 might be terrorists. Black males from England and Africa seem to occasionally try to light stuff on fire, though Black males form the US so far are pretty cool and have not shown themselves to be a problem. But I would keep an eye on them anyway. Why? Because if there is a “type” of person who does not have an association with being terroristic, then terrorists can simply recruit those people. Like Fisher’s rule for sex ratio balance. So, the most likely terrorist is the one who does NOT fit the profile, thus allowing us to add that type of person to the profile list!

See? Its easy, and effective.

Oh, and Sam Harris? He’s totally the type. In fact, in his essay, he admits to smuggling explosive materials onto a plane. Clearly, the security people should have been looking out for white males of a certain age. They certainly dropped the ball on that one. I wonder if Harris can still be arrested for the felony he admits to?

For more information on the statistical and numerical approaches to having fun with profiling, click here.

“We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like. The anti-war government niggah … that America was a source for division around the world ….

Start listening at 34:20 …

Crommunist has written extensively about race and racism. As an Afro-Canadian (is that what you call an “African American” who lives in Canadia?) he certainly has a perspective on race and racism in North America that is worth sharing. But, he has decided that he, and everyone else, has done enough; He seems to think that the “race problem” is solved, and the last Race Card has been dealt. I find it inexplicable, so inexplicable, that I can only show you his own words. Crommunist writes:

One of the things I’ve learned in my years is that there is a fine line between fighting racism and enhancing racism. So when an overt racist act happens, because some “white pride” shithead overtly expresses antipathy towards other, usually browner, groups, if we challenge them we are playing into their feelings of superiority and have essentially lost the argument. If we ignore them, then they are forced to go away, if not right way, then eventually.

Which, I suppose, is sometimes true. But as a general philosophy? As a guide to when to act, or indeed, engage in activism at all? I don’t think so. Speaking of activism (or lack thereof):

I didn’t go to the million hoodie march in Vancouver, held earlier this week, for the very reason that I refuse, from this point forward, to acknowledge overt acts of racism and instead I intend to use my own personal history that puts me in an advantageous position as a model for any of those who might use it as such.

Crommie closes his missive with the most remarkable statement, something Totally unexpected from him, at least by me:

So from this day forward, I am a man with no color. I do not recognize the color of others. Recognition of this irrelevant phenotypic difference between otherwise presumed-to-be-equal human beings is the problem, not the solution. I have no color, and nor do you.

WTF? Unbefuckinglievable.

Go see his final blog post, and for crap’s sake, please leave a comment telling Mr No Color what a clueless moron he is being.

Crommie’s ex blog is here.

There have been protests, a lot of noise from the Liberal Blogosphere, and even a write in campaign using the Sanford Police’s own web site (click here to get in on that!), and limited criticism from the press.

(The 911 calls related to this case are very damning of Zimmerman, and you can listen to them here.)

On Monday, March 19th, 2012 at 9AM, some students from FAMU and FSU will be gathering on the Set at FAMU’s campus to rally for Justice in the murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin. Students will be gathering to spread awareness on the case, but also demand Gov. Scott take lead to make sure justice is served in this state for the family of Trayvon Martin.

“State Attorney Norm Wolfinger recognizes that Trayvon Martin and his family, interested persons, and the public-at-large are entitled to no less than a thorough, deliberate and just review of the information provided, along with any other evidence that may or may not be developed in the course of the review process,” a statement released from the State Attorney’s Offices Tuesday evening said. “We intend to honor that commitment.”
The shift from local to state officials comes amid suspicion about the department’s investigating techniques, according to reports.

See also this report from ABC:

Trayvon Martin was shot dead after he took a break from watching NBA All-Star game television coverage to walk 10 minutes to a convenience store to buy snacks including Skittles candy requested by his 13-year-old brother, Chad, the family’s lawyer Ben Crump said.

The person who shot him is not being charged. Shall I ask the obvious question?

Story here.

I want to hear the 911 calls.

Hat Tip: Gwen.

Andrew Breitbart, the noted conservative Internet publisher and author, has died. He was 43.

A statement posted on his website said that Breitbart died “unexpectedly from natural causes” this morning.

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