The Oldiesfreak Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts III

[All Along The Watchtower]

Context: "Which will be the most important demographics in 2016?"

I'd like it to be white middle class men who earn between $30,000-$100,000, own land, own guns, pay taxes, are married with children, and between the ages of 25-55, but those days are gone. It will probably be Hispanics.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Snowstalker doesn't even believe in God, IIRC.

Hardly a barrier to being a Catholic.

like not scene at ALL, bro.

[All Along The Watchtower]

I think that now is a good time to remind you all of the differences in power (which include and are related to-but cannot be reduced to-economic matters) between "white" and "not white."

No one ever asked, "Is America ready for a white President?" No one ever speaks of "the white community." When a white man commits a crime or falls into chronic unemployment (or both), no one ever wonders what is going on in the white culture that is causing the breakdown in white cultural values. No one ever says these things, for exactly the reasons that Xahar articulated up-thread.

Being white doesn't define who white people are, for the most part (except perhaps in the cases where it gives a positive advantage). The same cannot be said for non-whites. Race is a big social class/status marker-perhaps the defining one in the history, past and present, of the United States.