Adams and Cuomo rip Mamdani for identifying as African American on college application

[Hekate]

42. What do you do when a form says "check all that apply" ? I guess for you that's easy...

…and I am happy for the simplicity of your life. In my life I’ve been accustomed to living in two majority-minority states, and for many I’ve known it wasn’t that simple.

For our earnest bean-counters in the US government, the motives for attempting to keep track of race change just about every generation, and sometimes every census. What “race” even constitutes also keeps changing, because historically the country has been obsessed with blackness and whiteness. It’s gotten much more interesting given the massive changes in the US population.

Fareed Zakaria said something I hadn’t been aware of, and to me it gave some insight into why certain Americans have high anxiety about “replacement” — in brief, when I was 3 years old in 1950, America was 90% white. All minorities were seriously in the minority, at 10%. (My family moved from California to Hawai’i when I was 9, and the demographics were quite different) In 2021, when Fareed gave his program The Divided States of America, the numbers had flipped to 59% white.

So now when some drooling Proud Boy or 3%er says his grandpappy told him this country used to be white, the old man might have been racist, but he was not blind. “Used to be” is actually true. “Supposed to be” is something else entirely.


America was 90% white in 1950
America was 59% white in 2021
Fareed Zakaria
#Divided America
The Divided States of America
CNN Special
Feb. —- 2021