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Is America a white Christian nation?
The people today’s “conservatives” forget
I remember when one of my less enlightened staffers described the father of her part native-American niece as being “just off the boat.” Certainly the irony was lost on her that so-called Indians were here long before the white Christians arrived, and arguably, we are the interlopers in this land, not they. Setting that point aside, my staffer was actually quite accepting of others even if she was not the most adept at using non-offensive language, and her point is actually well taken, that we are a diverse nation with people of all stripes having children together. As my blonde daughter once pointed out, in the future, there will be no more blonde, blue-eyed Americans. Everyone will just be brown.
That might be overstating the case a little bit, but demographics are destiny, and America is headed in the direction of California, not Kansas. This is really what is driving the anger on the right, the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-anything that is not us rhetoric. There is a fundamental fear that the white males who have dominated our culture for so long are losing their grip. For some, unfortunately, the goal is not to increase the size of the pie for everyone. Instead, the policy has been to give more of the pie to the few, and at least this few look like us, not them.
