Multiracial people become fastest growing U.S. demographic group
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teleprompter
America has been "post-racial" for decades now.
This supposedly new wrinkle, if significant, only signals that "liberals" will soon be agitating for creation and "recognition" of another new category of supposedly "oppressed" peoples.
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sydenham
Yes, liberal whites, haha. just joking...kind of.
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Badsey
Mark all those boxes = you want every handout you can possibly get. =I am a minority and I have suffered! >Pay me< ---send your Obama dollar and Pelosi stimulus here----> [x]
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zurcronium
Hey the president is multiracial. Of course that is why he is a democrat as the angry whites only sign on the republican party keeps any color out.
But liberals in a few months will provide assistance, a bailout if you will, to the whites only republicans. But its hard to stop people in that party on their road to irrelevance. Re-education in FEMA camps might not work.
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Wolfpack
Unfortunately, President Obama doesn't really identify himself as multi-racial, but as a black man. He has used race to rise up through politics. The increase in mixed race people will hopefully end the Democrat Party's racial politics and end travesties such as affirmative action. The sooner the better for everyone.
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cleo
I'm sure I remember Obama describing himself as a 'mutt'.
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JoeBigs
I love these kind of stories, it really brings out the true colors of the far right....LOL
Keep going guys, the more and more you speak out the more and more your light shines brighter.....LOL
This is too bloody good!LOL
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zurcronium
Wolfpack,
I presume you are american but perhaps not. If you have half black in America you are considered black. If you are a quarter black you are considered black. That is how it has been for centuries in the USA and still true today.
Obama when he applied for harvard law school did not indicate his race at all. You are wrong once again on his use of his race. Look it up.
Cleo, aren't we all? DNA testing has ended any illusion to a pure race once and for all.
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skipthesong
Sicilian-American Father & Cuban Mother = African/European/Native American. You all know by now that you know I am just too good looking. That is the numeral uno point. My daughter adds the next slash with being Oriental.
Telepromter: Better than yesterday, and yes, I'll agree with you on that, but a lot of those in power of yesterday kind of made sure a good portion of the land stayed one way.
On the flip, my mom's family was in an up roar when they learned my dad was Italian and not Cuban as they had originally thought. There is something to be said for the other side as well.
Zurcronium: you are correct that for a long time even up to 1/16th made you black; this is true for Indians. Lately, I've met some really white looking people claiming to be black....
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Triumvere
"Post racial" are we, teleprompter? Maybe in Hawaii. Seems like some people down south didn't get the memo; they've still got segregated highschool proms in Mississippi and Georgia.
I'm an optimist, though. I think were getting there. There is already a huge generational split with young people putting little value on race. I think we'll may be there in, say, two generaltions.
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neverknow2
Not sure exactly how they work it out but I am very, very surprised that it is only this much in a country of 300 million people.
Australia being a much smaller country, has signifigantly more multiracial residents both in % and sheer numbers.
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GJDailleult
Actually, according to the DNA research, the true percentage of multiracial Americans is much higher. One number I have seen is that 30% of "white" Americans have some recent African ancestry. Don't know how accurate that is or how scientifically accepted it is, but that is the number given. The point is though that in the past in the USA, and Canada too, multiracial people who were able to "pass" as white in appearance did so, those who weren't able to were identified as black or native. Then after a couple of generations their descendants knew nothing about it. "Multiracial" is nothing new, it's identifying people as multiracial that is.
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cleo
Yes we are. I find this whole obsessive thing with 'race' totally meaningless. Why can't people just be people?
If I were asked to indicate my race on a census form I think I would write 'human'.
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skipthesong
If I were asked to indicate my race on a census form I think I would write 'human'" Ha, Redd Foxx, when asked why he married outside of his race, his then wife was Korean, he said he didn't - he said he married a human!
they've still got segregated highschool proms in Mississippi and Georgia. " Maybe, but I doubt by law but there is a rise in self segregation happening. On that note thought, I think forced integration of schools is equally as bad. Let thing happen naturally and over time, it will change.
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teleprompter
I enjoy articles like this because America is so far ahead of the rest of the world it is not even funny. American conservatives, supposedly a monolithically white party according to Canadians like zurcronium, are way, way, way more tolerant and "inclusive" than the average Commonwealth Lefty I have met in 20 years of travel and residing abroad.
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Alphaape
teleprompter:
This is a true statement. Next time you are in the USA, take a look at some of the very far left rallies and shows and you will see a surprising sight. Unless they happen to be rallying for a "minorty cause" they will almost all be white, with very few blacks. In the past "tea party" demonstrations back in the states, the cameras did a good job of only showing whites but there were plenty of blacks in the crowds nation wide.
As far as racial identification goes, if Obama or Tiger Woods were not famous and robbed a liquor store, the police APB would probably state be on the look out for a "suspect Black male." Not a multi-cultural man or part black or asian. Right now it is just fashionable to be labled as this.
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skipthesong
In the past "tea party" demonstrations back in the states, the cameras did a good job of only showing whites but there were plenty of blacks in the crowds nation wide."
Believe it or not, there are quite a number of black and even Hispanic minuet men too (usually Tex-Mex types).
Right now it is just fashionable to be labled as this." So, you think this is just a passing thing?
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elbudamexicano
How do you know if you are really white? Really black? What the heck is a "hispanic Tex-Mex type"?? I am 100% Mexican and I want the skipper of songs to explain, cause this Mexican wants to know what is a Tex-Mex type as opposed to a Mexican or Mexican-American in California? New York? Mexico City or to a Mexican here in Japan.
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skipthesong
Tex Mex are primarily people who wished not to be part of an independent Mexico and who wished to join the US when Mexico ceded from Spain! There is a certain culture difference, such as cooking, music, and even slang.
Also, Tex Mex types are very American, even tilting toward the far right in most cases. They are usually the ones you seen riding along the border with the minute men. Don't take my word for it, that's how it was explained to me by friends who called themselves Tex-Mexicans! But, they do make sense. For example, many Mexicans in the SoCal area tilt with the idea of having that land returned to Mexico, where Tex-Mexs oppose such a measure. SoCal Mexicans seem to be more open to an open border, where as Tex-Mexes are not.
BTW, did you know LaRaza was more or less created by Tex-Mexs? They have only recently tilted to the left.
Personally, I don't even like the word Hispanic. I like calling myself what I am - multi! How do you if you really white or black? First, we would have to define what is black or white. My mom is just as dark as any black person in the US but doesn't call herself black and my father was white, but you'd think he was Puerto Rican or Cuban, yet, he thought of himself as white as he was Sicilian.
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Ah_so
I think that I have heard something like this too. I also read somewhere recently that a typlical "black" American, will have about 20% white DNA, showing that mixed relationships (in the broadest sense!) having been going on for a very long time.
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adaydream
I remember as a young southern boy raised in Kentucky, the first mixed racial couple I saw in '67 or '68 riding the bus to my grandparents. I didn't understand the looks and comments until I realized what was going on. Two people, a black and a white, holding hands and just being a couple. There were stares and glares and I knew I could feel hatred from some of the passengers toward the couple.
I remember the Monday after a black boy and a white girl were caught at the football field kissing. Talk about the outrage, the aw, the questions and the understanding. Those were strange and growing times.
Now it's nothing really. Sure it's initially a mind-shock for some people, but it's nothing like the 60s.
How times have changed. I remember the day when one of my daughters came home and said her boyfriend was black. < :-)
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TheMarion
I enjoy any and all of Sarges postings; unlike the rest of those blogging, he tells it like it is..... You can take it to the Bank!
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Sarge
"Multi-racial people"
"President Barack Obama"
President Obama is always referred to as "the first black U.S. president," not the first "multi-racial president."
What's up with that?
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Madverts
"What's up with that?"
I guess it means that even when you're becoming the fastest growing US demographic group, it doesn't seem to go hand in hand with tolerance or acceptance of that fact.
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Sarge
President Obama: The first multi-racial U.S. president! Unless you count Bill Clinton, heh.
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