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A Censored Race War

 

 

Sowell is always a good read.

 

Agree that Black on White violence are under-reported. I've seen it. The media does that. It under-reports or doesn't report some things because of race. A white coworker, once told me and he was very liberal in his politics, had also shown a study that shows that the media will always make a fuss if a little white girl is missing and second a little white boy while there are hundreds if not thousands of black children that go missing and can't get media attention.

 

Columbine got the attention but there were metal detectors in inner city HSs and even some middle schools and although no killing on the scale of Columbine, but certainly too many murders in and around schools with nary a mention nationwide until it happened in a white, middle class suburb.

 

There is no fairness in the media any longer. Also, I do agree that many in the black community are over-sensitive to things that they deem anti black and silent on things that blacks do based on race. Sad when we consider that 50 years ago it was the opposite.

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http://news.yahoo.com/wrong-man-executed-texas-probe-says-051125159.html

He was the spitting image of the killer, had the same first name and was near the scene of the crime at the fateful hour: Carlos DeLuna paid the ultimate price and was executed in place of someone else in Texas in 1989, a report out Tuesday found.

Even "all the relatives of both Carloses mistook them," and DeLuna was sentenced to death and executed based only on eyewitness accounts despite a range of signs he was not a guilty man, said law professor James Liebman.

Liebman and five of his students at Columbia School of Law spent almost five years poring over details of a case that he says is "emblematic" of legal system failure.

DeLuna, 27, was put to death after "a very incomplete investigation. No question that the investigation is a failure," Liebman said.

 

Hopefully with the present technology we will not have any more. There must be numerous people who have been killed already. I know Illinois had a few.

 

Also, growing up I knew that if the cops and the ADA thought you were guilty that was it. Public defenders weren't good and lacked resources. You couldn't afford a lawyer. They would also plea you out as we used to say, tell you that you'd lose the jury trial and just take the time. Even if you knew you were innocent.

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http://news.yahoo.com/report-global-biodiversity-down-30-percent-40-years-000930009.html

The world's biodiversity is down 30 percent since the 1970s, according to a new report, with tropical species taking the biggest hit. And if humanity continues as it has been, the picture could get bleaker.

Humanity is outstripping the Earth's resources by 50 percent — essentially using the resources of one and a half Earths every year, according to the 2012 Living Planet Report, produced by conservation agency the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

 

Environmentalists are going to milk this. I do believe we should conserve, etc., its the extent of it I'm not so sure about.

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I'm a Christian. Born again Christian. Doctrine wise I'm fundamentalist in my beliefs about the Bible. I personally believe homosexuality is a sin. I personally believe a homosexual marriage is not recognized before God.

 

However, I'm for gays to be allowed to marry and be recognized as marriage as I am. Churches don't have to perform it. I know plenty of churches who won't perform inter-faith marriages for example. There are still some churches who won't perform interracial marriages.

 

What is hypocritical about the whole debate is that those who are against gays marrying are said to be defending the term marriage. What term? If we take the term to mean what marriage was at the founding of the country then a marriage between races is not a marriage. A woman was pretty much property as well.

 

The fact is that those who argue against gay marriages on grounds that they are defending marriage or against re-defining what marriage is, is that the concept of marriage has been evolving in America since its founding. They are defending a concept that has been changing.

 

Don't get me wrong. I'm not comfortable with 2 men marrying and even 2 women to some extent. I don't wanna see them kissing, I don't wanna see them holding hands. I either laugh or cringe when I see falangs and thai boys holding hands in Pattaya as well as seeing two guys holding hands while I drive through west Hollywood.

 

A sin is a sin is a sin in the Bible. Homosexuality as fas as I can tell doesn't carry any extra weight. Jesus himself doesn't discuss it amongst the many things he spoke against. I know Christian parents who would still maintain contact with their son if he lived unmarried with his girlfriend, although not liking it but would disown the same son if he was living with a guy in a romantic relationship. No difference in sin.

 

Although I'd like to think its about me it isn't. I and the rest of us have to live with things we may not like but at the end of the day is fair. Gays marrying is one of those things.

 

 

Homosexuality didn't become a word till the late 1880's. What probably fueled the government fears was when the Federal government in the 1880's got after the 'Mexican' USA citizens who were cohabitating 'illegally'. The 'Mexicans' got married in the Church and forgot to get a liscense from the State/Territory. Some 'Mexicans' actually got arrested because they had a Church marriage and did not get a Government liscense. Shortly afterwards in the later part of the 1880's the Federal government came down hard on the Mormons for their pologamist beliefs.

 

But the main issue is should the goverments force their religious beliefs on citizens?

 

I say "No!"

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Cheers C-Steve, even though I presume you are not involved in this. chinaman.gif

 

 

 

Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.

 

By SABRINA TAVERNISE

WASHINGTON — 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.

 

Such a turn has been long expected, but no one was certain when the moment would arrive — signaling a milestone for a nation whose government was founded by white Europeans and has wrestled mightily with issues of race, from the days of slavery, through a civil war, bitter civil rights battles and, most recently, highly charged debates over efforts to restrict immigration.

 

While over all, whites will remain a majority for some time, the fact that a younger generation is being born in which minorities are the majority has broad implications for the country’s economy, its political life and its identity. “This is an important tipping point,†said William H. Frey, the senior demographer at the Brookings Institution, describing the shift as a “transformation from a mostly white baby boomer culture to the more globalized multiethnic country that we are becoming.â€

 

Signs that the country is evolving this way start with the Oval Office, and have swept hundreds of counties in recent years, with 348 in which whites are no longer in the majority. That number doubles when it comes to the toddler population, Mr. Frey said. Whites are no longer the majority in four states and the District of Columbia, and have slipped below half in many major metro areas, including New York, Las Vegas and Memphis.

 

A more diverse young population forms the basis of a generational divide with the country’s elderly, a group that is largely white and grew up in a world that was too.

 

The contrast raises important policy questions. The United States has a spotty record educating minority youth; will older Americans balk at paying to educate a younger generation that looks less like themselves? And while the increasingly diverse young population is a potential engine of growth, will it become a burden if it is not properly educated?

 

“The question is, how do we reimagine the social contract when the generations don’t look like one another?†said Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, co-director of Immigration studies at New York University.

 

The trend toward greater minority births has been building for years, the result of the large wave of immigration here over the past three decades. Hispanics make up the majority of immigrants, and they tend to be younger — and to have more children — than non-Hispanic whites. (Of the total births in the year that ended last July, about 26 percent were Hispanic, about 15 percent black, and about 4 percent Asian.)

 

Whites still represent the single largest share of all births, at 49.6 percent, and are an overwhelming majority in the population as a whole, at 63.4 percent. But they are aging, causing a tectonic shift in American demographics. The median age for non-Hispanic whites is 42 — meaning the bulk of women are moving out of their prime childbearing years.

 

Latinos, on the other hand, are squarely within their peak fertility, with a median age of 27, said Jeffrey Passel, senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center. Between 2000 and 2010, there were more Hispanic births in the United States than there were arriving Hispanic immigrants, he said.

 

The result is striking: Minorities accounted for 92 percent of the nation’s population growth in the decade that ended in 2010, Mr. Frey calculated, a surge that has created a very different looking America from the one of the 1950s, when the TV characters Ozzie and Harriet were a national archetype.

 

The change is playing out across states with large differences in ethnic and racial makeup between the elderly and the young. Some of the largest gaps are in Arizona, Nevada, Texas and California, states that have had flare-ups over immigration, school textbooks and priorities in spending. The nonrural county with the largest gap is Yuma County, Ariz., where just 18 percent of people under 20 are white, compared with 73 percent of people over 65, Mr. Frey said.

 

Perhaps the most urgent aspect of the change is education. A college degree has become the most important building block of success in today’s economy, but blacks and Latinos lag far behind whites in getting one. According to Mr. Frey, just 13 percent of Hispanics and 18 percent of blacks have a college degree, compared with 31 percent of whites.

 

Those stark statistics are made more troubling by the fact that young Americans will soon be faced with caring for the bulging population of baby boomers as they age into retirement, said William O’Hare, a senior consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, on top of inheriting trillions of dollars of government debt.

 

“The forces coming together here are very clear, but I don’t see our political leaders putting them together in any coherent way,†he said, adding that educating young minorities was of critical importance to the future of the country and the economy.

 

Immigrants took several generations to assimilate through education in the last large wave of immigration at the turn of the 20th century, Mr. Suarez-Orozco said, but mobility was less dependent on education then, and Americans today cannot afford to wait, as they struggle to compete with countries like China.

 

“This is a polite knock on the door to tell us to get ready,†said Ruy Teixeira, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. “We do a pretty lousy job of educating the younger generation of minorities. Basically, we are not ready for this.â€

 

But there are bright spots. Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, said the immigration debate of recent years has raised the political consciousness of young Latinos and he is hopeful that more will become politically active as a result. Only half of eligible Latino voters cast ballots in 2008, he said, compared with 65 percent of eligible non-Hispanic voters. “We have an opportunity here with this current generation,†Mr. Vargas said. About 50,000 Latinos turn 18 every month, he said.

 

And the fact that the country is getting a burst of births from nonwhites is a huge advantage, argues Dowell Myers, professor of policy, planning and demography at the University of Southern California. European societies with low levels of immigration now have young populations that are too small to support larger aging ones, exacerbating problems with the economy.

 

“If the U.S. depended on white births alone, we’d be dead,†Mr. Myers said. “Without the contributions from all these other groups, we would become too top-heavy with old people.â€

 

NY Times

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<< Non-Hispanic whites ... >>

 

Which calls for a great big WTF?

 

According to the census bureau, a Castilian Spaniard, a black Puerto Rican, a Central American Indian, and the Frito Bandito are all in the same "Hispanic" group.

 

So why aren't African-Americans (who speak English), Native Americans (who overwhelming speak English), and plain old WASPS, Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Polish-Americans etc in a group called ANGLOS?

 

The census bureau has 3 racial categories - Caucasian, Af-Am and Native American/Pacific Islander - plus one CULTURAL category. The census dept has its head up it dupka. :(

 

And Steve shouldn't feel too good, because "Hispanics" are in the process of taking the #2 position away from African-Americans.

 

p.s. << Whites are no longer the majority in four states ... >>

 

 

Mississippi and South Carolina have had a black majority pretty much since the 1850s. No coincidence that those were the first two states to secede, since the white voters were terrified of emancipation and the possibility black majority taking over the state governments.

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<< Non-Hispanic whites ... >>

 

Which calls for a great big WTF?

 

According to the census bureau, a Castilian Spaniard, a black Puerto Rican, a Central American Indian, and the Frito Bandito are all in the same "Hispanic" group.

 

So why aren't African-Americans (who speak English), Native Americans (who overwhelming speak English), and plain old WASPS, Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Polish-Americans etc in a group called ANGLOS?

 

The census bureau has 3 racial categories - Caucasian, Af-Am and Native American/Pacific Islander - plus one CULTURAL category. The census dept has its head up it dupka. :(

 

And Steve shouldn't feel too good, because "Hispanics" are in the process of taking the #2 position away from African-Americans.

 

 

I guess this doesn't change the fact that Whites of European decent aren't being in the majority anymore. Considering that the median age of WASPs is 42 their birthrate will decline even more.

 

I wonder how the two political parities, especially the GOP will look like in a decade? And how they talk about immigration, education, e. g.?

 

PS: It won't disturb me to see more Jessica Alba's, Salma Hayek's, e.g. in Hollywood movies. hubbahubba.gif

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I list my 4 year old as asian, even though his nickname is "copy," given to him while living in Thailand last year. He looks just like me (for better or for worse). If it is to his advantage in education and work, I'll advise him to say he is asian. If it was the other way around, I'd advise him to check "Caucasian."

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