source: Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S. – NYTimes.com.
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.
I bet the racist blogs this morning are white-hot, pun intended, talking about this article! But for myself I say it is about time. I think that our strongest point as a nation is our diversity. We generally don’t have one segment of society having total say on the rest of us. Now I am not inferring that the tyranny of the majority doesn’t, or hasn’t, reared its ugly head in the U.S. but generally those periods are eventually overthrown by the vote.
Just look at other countries to see the fierce partisan divide between Sunni and Shiite, between Muslims and Jews, between this or that. We in the U.S. are just too diverse now for that to happen. There is one caveat to that however and that is the growing disparity between the 1% who currently control the vast majority of the wealth and the other 99% of us. I am confident that some day this grossly imbalanced fact will the ameliorated hopefully by the vote and not by violence.
We as a country celebrate our diversity as we rightly should. Let us pray that the partisan divide that is so visible in other countries never happens here again. Let us remember that we are now all minorities in our great country.
RJ's Corner 
I’m curious. Now that the white majority is no longer a majority do you think will it mean an end to racial preference when it comes to college entrance and hiring practices? Have you read anything about this recently? I am guessing it will be a hard road to turn back on.
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Good morning Jane. No I haven’t read anything about that but of course I do have an opinion on it :) I’m not sure that three hundred years of prejudice has been erased in fifty years. Maybe, maybe not. I know there are groups who loathe our current president because of the color of his skin but I hope they are a small minority now.
Maybe we need to change some of these practices and gear them toward the economic disparity now. I know I grew up in a family well below the poverty line. I guess Dad would now be considered the “working poor” and since Mom abandoned us we were a single parent family. Even back then I had to really struggle to earn my way through college. I worked two jobs (96 hours/week) in the summers and forty to fifty hours/week while in college to get the bills paid. I can’t imagine people at the lower economic levels can even consider college now. There are just not enough hours in the day to pay for college working a minimum wage job anymore.
This is what I think, but what do I know…..
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