tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post5846802787021791429..comments2024-01-17T15:05:50.120-06:00Comments on AngryBlackBitch: Pondering the minority tipping point...Shark-Fuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03323962708956637012noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-81162782482109981922009-12-27T06:09:45.891-06:002009-12-27T06:09:45.891-06:00The real issue is power not just so-called demogra...The real issue is power not just so-called demographics.<br /><br /> In 50 or 150, or 250 years, if the white population still controls the economy, the police and military, and the media, and sets immigration policy, and is still able to maintain the same racial hierarchy, using people of color as overseers, what different does it make if they lose some share of the overall percentage of the total population?<br /><br /> All of these projections of future US populations show the Hispanic and Asian populations at least doubling, while somehow, the percentage of Blacks remains stagnant. Given the nature of global poverty and migration trends, this seems bizarre to me. Unless, of course, there are plans/intentions/desires to limit Black immigration and to limit birthrates of Blacks already living in the US.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-38088458009295746592009-12-20T22:37:28.717-06:002009-12-20T22:37:28.717-06:00Yes, yes and yes. I live in a county and a town w...Yes, yes and yes. I live in a county and a town where Latino/as make up the majority (don't get me started on who still holds most of the power.) I'm white. I like where I live, hope to live here a long time, hope to see a lot more power shift from white men.<br /><br />I really do love to interrupt a conversation about the "new majority" with my bonmot of "So you're afraid that they are going to act like white people do when whites are the majority?" <br /><br />It's totally worth not getting invited back over. <br /><br />KathleenFresh Hell, Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15598947126508453031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-80482714781716418792009-12-18T16:38:39.898-06:002009-12-18T16:38:39.898-06:00As someone around whom certain ignorant white folk...As someone around whom certain ignorant white folk feel free to express their ignorant bigotry because my skin color happens to match theirs, allow me to confirm your suspicion. <br /><br />It is not even unconscious. A lot of bigots have heard this information about the demographic shift (sometimes through talk radio, sometimes through email chains about the Death of Real America etc.), and it scares the hell out of them, and they are willing to say so in front of other white people, and I have heard them say so, often. "We need to prepare because before long whites are going to be a MINORITY in this country. A MINORITY, do you hear me?" I have been hearing that from crazy old white men (including, sadly, a few I'm related to) since the 1980s, to justify everything from anti-immigrant legislation to stockpiling guns, and their fear is getting louder now that we have the first African-American president as visible evidence that old white men are no longer exclusively in charge.<br /><br />I suppose it's hard for people who have spent their whole lives harassing and demeaning "minorities" to imagine becoming a minority themselves because, instead of envisioning, as you do, a nation where no one is really a minority because everyone is, and therefore everyone gets along a little better, all they envision is themselves put in the place of the people they have been persecuting. Having never longed for equality, all they can imagine is having the tables of inequality turned. <br /><br />It's a sad little limited worldview they have. And a dangerous one.Jaelithehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12081888212421953409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-29944885876525411482009-12-18T09:22:59.536-06:002009-12-18T09:22:59.536-06:00"Blackness isn’t something folks need to lear..."Blackness isn’t something folks need to learn to tolerate or get past. That’s the stinkin’ thinkin’ that got us right where we are – trying to speak some post-racialism into being rather than doing the hard work of social justice."<br /><br />Amen! Thank you for your insightfulness and your insistence on calling out BS wherever it lives.Val Gendlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15652763268492948074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-12464699162832894062009-12-18T07:28:27.993-06:002009-12-18T07:28:27.993-06:00Hi from Israel....
Just say 'no' to ig...Hi from Israel....<br /><br />Just say 'no' to ig'nance...do I foresee a t-shirt or hoodie here or even an intellectual campaign? Count me in. <br /><br />Seriously, we all need to get the old DNA tested and find out what the real shit is. Mayhap (to quote someone...) we would all find out that there isn't that much difference at all. Visual shit can be very misleading. <br /><br />This is a wonderful post, you addressed something really close to my heart.AOBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02664333737875522229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-78958836990320155272009-12-17T21:03:21.238-06:002009-12-17T21:03:21.238-06:00Shaking my head!Shaking my head!LBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13677118533415922277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-66982699488302035782009-12-17T18:51:31.602-06:002009-12-17T18:51:31.602-06:00Lola Wants...thanks for taking care of that explan...Lola Wants...thanks for taking care of that explanation!<br /><br />Olua...thank you so much!Shark-Fuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03323962708956637012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-36648675330556015972009-12-17T18:47:44.109-06:002009-12-17T18:47:44.109-06:00I read your blog but never post. This is to let y...I read your blog but never post. This is to let you know we're out here reading your point of view and to encouraging you to keep writing.<br /><br />OluaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-2571426432411884322009-12-17T15:41:21.180-06:002009-12-17T15:41:21.180-06:00This information is relevant because it talks abou...This information is relevant because it talks about the history of the past which has influenced the present and will influence the future. Basically, she is saying as the population demographic shifts those who used to be the majority will not take their newfound position of the minority lightly. They will fight against it like they did in the past, and as my daddy said, "All hell will break loose." Hell will break loose exactly in the same manner it has done in the past when competition threatens the majority.Lola Wantsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-22942640970039139392009-12-17T14:11:04.832-06:002009-12-17T14:11:04.832-06:00Why is this information even relevant?Why is this information even relevant?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-85744812379446355672009-12-17T13:00:33.364-06:002009-12-17T13:00:33.364-06:00"What I find interesting is the assumption he...<i>"What I find interesting is the assumption held by the ig’nant that current minorities will fuck them over when they reach a majority. "</i><br /><br /><i>Gee</i>, I can't <i>imagine</i> where they might have <i>gotten</i> such an idea! Can you say <i>projection</i>, class? ("Guilt" might also figure in there...)<br /><br />I knew you could!D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01347115855111060618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-83323597209489345112009-12-17T12:50:21.607-06:002009-12-17T12:50:21.607-06:00"multiple minority populations representing m..."multiple minority populations representing multiple cultures becoming the majority in America will probably be a good thing…a damn good thing…"<br /><br />-I couldn't agree more. This will be a fantastic thing. I can't wait to see this great shift.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-82668745578835794992009-12-17T12:37:54.500-06:002009-12-17T12:37:54.500-06:00Excellent post, Shark-Fu! Keep up the good work. I...Excellent post, Shark-Fu! Keep up the good work. I'm glad to see your insightful & intelligent analysis of that news blurb, which I first saw this morning on the homepage of my BellSouth e-mail account. Must've been specifically placed right there to make all those white BellSouth customers shit their pants. Which I'm sure it did. <br /><br />Again, thanks for the awesome post. BTW, "Just Say NO to IG'NANCE" would make an awesome bumper sticker. I'd buy 100.Miss Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13210249894351503887noreply@blogger.com