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Sunday
Oct032010

The Population Hoax: Hispanics Are Now The Largest Minority

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All too many of us cling onto statistics given to us by our enemy or at least they don't have the best interest of Black people at hand.  When the 2010 Census was complete, actually prior to the census ever being taken we were bombarded with the talk of Black people being displaced as the largest minority in the United States. Minorty, thats how they speak of us and of course in turn we call ourselves a minority.  It seems many of us cannot shake the old master loving slave mentality that responds to the master's sneeze with the quip "massa we's got a cold?" Such is the constant repetative song many Blacks sing based on the master's statistics concering our people.  Seventy percent unwed mothers, seventy five percent of Black men in jail, prison or on probation or parole, fify five percent high school drop out rate... You get the picture.  Unfortunately, we have few sources to possibly counteract any of these stats but we do have our minds and critical thinking.  But, for the purposes of this post we will use their numbers.

First let's take a quick look at the word minority and think on it a bit.  Minority-being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts.  A group of people differing racially or politically from a larger group of which it is part.  Now, with this in mind and using their numbers how does it make sense that the female population in the U.S. is 155 million and males is 151 million.  And, yet females, white females, are considered a minority.  Tricknowlegy.  As of 2009 going into 2010 reports began to surface that Hispanics (their word not mine) are now the largest minority in the country with 48.4 million now residing in the U.S., displacing Blacks as the largest minority.

Knowing that the so called Hispanic or Latino population is comprised of Black people I wanted to know how this really played out.  I fully understand that many of the Latin American countries, with Mexico being the greatest offender, sought to wipe out Black people from their histories, by way of a process of mentally training the population to think of themselves primarily as citizens of their country then Black secondarily.  And of course the whole caste/colour prejudice as well, just look at the Dominican Republic for instance. 

Now, the U.S. Census Bureau is stating that Hispanics (their word not mines) comprise 15.8 percent of the U.S. population and Blacks in America are now 12.4 percent, down from 14.8.  The lowered amount is due in part to many people that used to call themselves Black due to the one drop rule have moved over into filling out the census form as white, and the number is also affected by many Blacks accepting their indigenous roots and filling out the form as Native American or Indigenous.  This does not necessarily mean there are really less Black people in the U.S.  So, here's the trick.  15.8 percent of the U.S. population is Hispanic (their word not mine) and 12.4 percent Black.  Of the 15.8 percent Latino, 3.8 claim Black or Afro Latino, this lessens the so called Hispanics to 12.0 percent, right?  This in turn increases the Black population to 16.2 percent, right?  Tell me how the Hispanic (their word not mine) is now the largest minority (their word not mine)?  So, why would we agree to their statistic?

Thursday
Apr292010

Al Sharpton....Sabes que? You're off base just like the conservatives

Rev. Al Sharpton speaks at Jersey City churchOver the last week or so, while listening to the Al Sharpton show, and I mean just that, a SHOW, he has been very hot on this issue of the Arizona law that gives Arizona law enforcement the legal authority to "racially profile" their citizens and visitors.  Reverend Sharpton is planning to go to Arizona to walk the streets of Phoenix without I.D., to challenge the law signed in by Rep. governor Jan Brewer.  He states to his audience that what starts out in Arizona with the Latinos, could well strike Black people next.  What he says is 'suppose you', speaking to one of his callers, 'were in Arizona and a cop stops you, he (the cop) could say you look like a Haitian or Jamaican and lock you up if you couldn't produce documentation that you are an American citizen.  Well, Rev. Sharpton this makes sense and in fact exists in the realm of possibility.  However, why should you go to Arizona to protest against this law?  He also says, that if Arizona enacts this law then quite possibly South Carolina, Georgia, or Florida could be next.

 

This rationale, this way of thinking, suits one mindset.  The mindset of fear.  Rev. Sharpton is playing on the emotion of fear in much of his listening audience to conjure support for his selfish actions to protest this law.  Selfish, simply because it's bad law.  This law voted in by the Arizona legislature, is a Republican tactic to garner support from the Tea Party types, that could very well siphon votes from mainstream Republicans during the upcoming mid-term elections in November.  It also shakes the wheat from the chaff.  Those that are truly conservatives and those that are really nationalist-racists hiding behind the banner of conservativsm.   It also exposes Black conservatives that follow this line of thought, making them merely parrots that continue to muddy the political waters by regurgitating talking head drivel.

 

We should understand that this law, on it's face, appears to be an anti Latino law.  But, it's really and truly an anti Mexican/Salvadoran law, not anti Latino.  Arizonians are not concerned about people that look like Zoe Saldana, Lloyd Banks or Fox News panelist Juan Williams. So, really why is Sharpton going there to protest along side the Mexicans?  I have not heard him say or read anything that any Mexican or Salvadoran groups have requested his presence in Arizona.  Seems here he is inserting himself into this fray uninvited.  This is why it appears to be primarily a selfish act on his part.  And again this is bad law.  SB 1070 allows agents of the government to detain anyone that he or she "reasonably believes" is in the U.S. illegally.  This is a blatant expansion of government.  Conservatives claim to abhor a big and expanding government, supporting this bill exposes you as a fraud or exposes who you really are.Thousands of protesters rally against Arizona's new immigration law on Sunday.

 

Al Sharpton this law will not stand, it will not spread.  Jeb Bush has already said this bill could have "unintended consquences" and civil liberties issues.  Surely, this law will be challenged in court and will more than likely be struck down and go no where.  Truly, SB 1070 may not deliver legally, but has delivered in ripping the facade off many.  Off the nationalist-racists, off parroting Black conservatives, off selfish television activists, off the facade of Latino versus Mexican/Salvadoran, off the fact that Mexican civil rights groups don't desire Black civil rights group's assistance.