Going to Extreme

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law. But a few days later, it doesn’t seem quite as entertaining — and not just because of the wave of vandalism and threats aimed at Democratic lawmakers. For ...

Whose Country Is It?

We're always hearing about these demographic changes coming and "whites" are going to be the minority, etc., etc., etc. Do you actually think that the grandchildren of current immigrants are going to think of themselves as anything but Americans? Not unless you ban intermarriage between ethnic groups. A hundred years ago, nobody thought Italians, Poles, or Jews were "white". Today they are, just look at the Census form.

The book "The history of white people" is on just this.

I have a thought:

Culture is in large part linguistic in its broadest definition.

"White" is actually cultural. (this was initially understood)

Children learn everything in their whole environment.

Childhood segregation is essential to racial identity.