I usually couldn't care less about NYT columnist Charles Blow's opinions. Mostly because I know most of them and they seem fairly lightweight. However this column interested me. The Impact of the Browning of America on Anti-Blackness One of the things I often hear as a person who frequently writes about race, ethnicity and equality, is that the browning of America — the coming shift of the country from mostly white to mostly nonwhite — is one of the greatest hopes in the fight against white supremacy and oppression. Hey, isn't this the "Great Replacement Theory," which is considered a racist conspiracy theory by the left unless they are promulgating it? The sad reality is, however, that anti-blackness — or anti-darkness, to remove the stricture of a single-race definition for the sake of this discussion — exists in societies around the world, including nonwhite ones. In too many societies across the globe, where a difference in skin tone exists, the darker people are often assigned a lower caste. And, when people migrate to this country from those societies, they can bring those biases with them, underscoring that you don’t have to be white to contribute to anti-blackness. Shocker. Racism isn't something that was invented by the founding fathers and confined to the borders of the United States. When it came to how much attention was paid to racial issues in this country, a majority of Hispanics, understandably, said too little attention is paid to race and racial issues concerning Hispanics. A plurality also said that too little attention is paid to race and racial issues nationally. But a plurality said too much attention was paid to issues concerning Black people. This is troubling. Concern over racial issues isn’t a zero-sum game. There should be more concern for all groups and less of a belief that some are receiving too little and others too much. My opinion is that the day that whites are finally a minority in the US will not lead to a grand POC coalition to finish the job of exterminating whiteness and usher in a grand new rainbow era. Asians and Hispanics are not interested in liberal white guilt towards Blacks, and with Blacks still stuck at 13% of the population in the post-whitey era, will not be able to pull the white guilt card against the new Asian and Hispanic masters. So if you are Black and are expecting reparations, you better get them before Whites are in the minority and have checked out of such concerns.
Black and brown people hate white people so much that they are trying to bleach and whiten their skin to look like them. In other news, NPR bemoaned the election of Boston's first woman of color to the position of Mayor because she is Asian and beat out three other black candidates...
