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southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
2. You know what I tell my fellow white friends and family is what goes around comes around.
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 06:02 PM
Jun 2013

It isn't right to suppress ANYONE's vote or rights with anything. I was raised everyone is equal. All my life I've had all kinds of neighbors and people different colors and nationalities. Even spent the night at each others homes.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
3. I don't think some get out much past their noses and don't read how the population is
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 06:02 PM
Jun 2013

Changing, still angry old white men pushing to knock many back down.

 

Hell Hath No Fury

(16,327 posts)
4. Vampire Rights Authority?
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 06:05 PM
Jun 2013


(Sorry, True Blood geek.)

I'm not sure the numbers would ever go low enough for whites to be considered a true minority whose rights need protecting.

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
5. I don't care what the make up of the population is in the
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 06:06 PM
Jun 2013

future. I am glad we have the diversity we do but I don't see how whites will be a minority. You would have to add all the other races together and compare their numbers to the number of whites. But each race stands on its own as a minority.
Whites will be out numbered by all the other races together but no race individually will out number whites as I see it.

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
9. It will not matter until about 75 years from now
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 06:12 PM
Jun 2013

By then almost EVERYONE born before 2000 will be gone.

and hopefully by THEN everyone will have a unique ID created for them at birth...activated when they first drive/vote/marry/enter the military.

We will be fully "digitized" by then, and hopefully voting will be a month-long "event" where people can vote on THEIR terms and schedule and on the LAST day of voting month any late-comers show up at probably mostly-empty polling places & then we count.

By then we should be a lovely melange of customs/colors/ethnicities, and perhaps things will be better.. I surely hope so..

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
10. Your voting fantasy is basically how we do it in Oregon right now, 2 weeks rather than a
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 06:30 PM
Jun 2013

month, no actual polling places needed. Why wait?

haele

(12,581 posts)
11. They may become a minority in "color", but they'll still have economic majority for a while.
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 06:34 PM
Jun 2013

It's the anti-bellum plantation mentality that the gated community set have settled into; even though the "massa" and his family were outnumbered by those of other colors (either slaves or servants and sharecroppers) that worked for them, and by the poor white dirt-scrabble farmers and tradesmen that surrounded them, they could expect to be treated like royalty because they had the control over the money and the resources to prove they were.

The poor(er) whites could be usually be manipulated through a mixture of greed, the establishment of social privilege, and benefit of law above the others of color. As long as there was someone else below them that got less "respect" and resources, they were perfectly happy to allow the plantation owner exploit and appropriate the surrounding resources above them. After all, the Massa and the Missus wouldn't have reached or been born into their lofty position of ownership and power if they weren't deserving of it, would they? Since Ghod always blesses those who deserve it, and those who aren't Godly are always punished...maybe some of those blessings enjoyed by the plantation owner would rub off on poorer cousins if they showed the proper deference and respect...

The working people of color were controlled through access to a means of survival. While now-days, the benefit of law is not available as a means of manipulation, greed and social privilege still work for a large amount of whites and many people of color who are willing to - well, as they said in the old days - "work in the Big House", thinking that would allow them to live like the Masters. You know, Tio Taco and Uncle Tom.

The gated community types have taken this thinking to heart. And their "Prosperity Gospel" just allows them to ignore the self-destructive Evil - the moral deterioration, willful ignorance, stifling rot and cruelty - at the heart of the Plantation Dream.

Haele

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