Nation Once Again Comes Under Sway Of Pink-Faced Half-Wit

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Whites hold a disproportionately large amount of power in America. The US is about 10% black, but just 1.2% of Presidents have been black, and the Senate is currently 1% black. Blacks and Hispanics are similarly underrepresented in other positions of power, wealth, and authority.

Now, before someone misconstrues my comments, I am not in favor of voting for black candidates just to even out the racial balance. But to me, those numbers are indicative of the fact that power relations in America are unbalanced in favor of a privileged majority group, and this is largely for historical reasons that you seem to want to deny.

Whites hold a disproportionately large amount of power in America. The US is about 10% black, but just 1.2% of Presidents have been black, and the Senate is currently 1% black. Blacks and Hispanics are similarly underrepresented in other positions of power, wealth, and authority.

Now, before someone misconstrues my comments, I am not in favor of voting for black candidates just to even out the racial balance. But to me, those numbers are indicative of the fact that power relations in America are unbalanced in favor of a privileged majority group, and this is largely for historical reasons that you seem to want to deny.

"WASPs" are a subset of Whites. You go from asserting WASPs are in control to justifying that assertion by talking about the number of Presidents who have been White.

More importantly, while quoting a statistic stretching back to the 18th Century might look superficially impressive, what you should be looking at is the present day. And including Obama in that statistic (the 0.5 I presume) I would say is disingenuous. Obama is not White.

More importantly still, simply looking at who the President is is inadequate for gauging the balance of political and economic power in the US.

Last but not least, if we take Whites to mean Europeans (as I do), then jews (like Romany Gypsies) are not a people I consider to be White, and that does change the overall conclusion.

You completely disregarded the part where he cites nations that aren't exactly entire nations of immigrants like how the US is. Russia is nowhere near the population diversity that the US is. Nubia isn't even any kind of state but rather a specific region in Northeast Africa (again, not especially an immigration hub).

Up until recent history, there has been racial hatred by white people in America.

Up until recent history, there has been racial hatred by white people in America.

There are European Jews, though. And actually, it still doesn't change the overall conclusion that whites are in power, unless you're one of those people who believes our government is secretly being controlled by Zionist reptilians.

Since the 1960s, Jews have come to wield considerable influence in American economic, cultural, intellectual. and political life.

Jews played a central role in American finance during the 1980s, and they were among the chief beneficiaries of that decade's corporate mergers and reorganizations. Today, though barely 2% of the nation’s population is Jewish, close to half its billionaires are Jews. The chief executive officers of the three major television networks and the four largest film studios are Jews, as are the owners of the nation’s largest newspaper chain and most influential single newspaper, the New York Times. In the late 1960s, Jews already constituted 20% of the faculty of elite universities and 40% of the professors of elite law schools; today, these percentages doubtless are higher.

The role and influence of Jews in American politics is equally marked. Jews are elected to public office in disproportionate numbers. In 1993, ten members of the United States Senate and thirty-two members of the House of Representatives were Jewish, three to four times their percentage of the general population. Jews are even more prominent in political organizations and in finance. One
recent study found that in twenty-seven of thirty-six campaigns for the United States Senate, one or both candidates relied upon a Jewish campaign chairman or finance director. In the realm of lobbying and litigation, Jews organized what was for many years one of Washington’s most successful political action committees, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and they play leadership roles in such important public interest groups as the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) and Common Cause. Several Jews also played very important roles in the 1992 Democratic presidential campaign. After the Democrats' victory, President Clinton appointed a
number of Jews to prominent positions in his administration.

Their role in American economic, social, and political institutions has enabled Jews to wield considerable influence in the nation's public life. The most obvious indicator of this influence is the $3 billion in direct military and economic aid provided to Israel by the United States each year and, for that matter, the like amount given to Egypt since it agreed to maintain peaceful relations with Israel. That fully three-fourths of America's foreign aid budget is devoted to Israel's security interests is a tribute in considerable measure to the lobbying prowess of AIPAC and the importance of the Jewish community in American politics.

At least until recently, another mark of Jewish influence was the virtual disappearance of anti-Semitic rhetoric from mainstream public discourse in the United States. As a general rule, what can and cannot be said in public reflects the distribution of political power in society; as Jews gained political power, politicians who indulged in anti-Semitic tactics were labeled extremists and exiled to the margins of American politics. Similarly, religious symbols and forms of expression that Jews find threatening have been almost completely eliminated from schools and other public institutions. Suits brought by the ACLU, an organization whose leadership and membership are predominantly Jewish, secured federal court decisions banning officially sanctioned prayers in the public schools and creches and other religious displays in parks and public buildings.

American Jews secured their position of power quite recently ...

Well, at least you acknowledge that. WIll you also agree that it still exists to some extent? Or that the effects of it are still felt?

OK, Jews do have disproportionate influence in government. Is that news? And it still doesn't change the fact that whites are still overall in control. I certainly don't expect a Jewish president anytime soon. Jews have been one of the minority ethnic groups lucky enough to more or less fully integrate into American society, and they face almost no discrimination now.

I was dismissive of your Jewish comments because more often than not people who start bringing that up then immediately go into some fanciful conspiracy or other.

It does still exist, but it seems to me the hatred aspect of racism exists more in the descendants of those who were former victims of racial hatred from white guys and it exists in its preferential treatment form in the descendants of those who were the victimizers. However, when speaking to immigrants from Latin America, such as from Mexico and Puerto Rico and El Salvador, they also have a form of racism which is neither hatred nor preferential, it is more like a constant dwelling upon races as if they were teams playing some form of sports.

Why is that grim?