King's dream

Let’s take a quiz.  In 1958 Gallup asked “Do you appove of interracial marriage?” 4% did.  What’s the number today?  Answer: 88%.  Now when you consider the other 12% who answer “yes” or “don’t know” might say that because they don’t know what the effect on children would be or think it would cause hardship for the couple, no matter how much family approves, this proves that certainly bigots represent less than 12% of population of all races in the United States.

Next question.  In 1958, what percentage of American Asians married someone of another race? It was 10%.  That same year 1% of Afro-Americans married cross-racially.  What are the percentages of each group today?  Answer is 50% of Asians and 10% of Afro-Americans.  The Asian percentage is about what Native Americans have been doing for the last 50 years.

Everywhere you look, you see kids of mixed race.  In Oklahoma, 28% of respondents say they are of some ethnic group that is non- “white”.  Of the remaining 72%, who associate with Caucasians, what percent is known to have mixed race origins?  The answer is 35%, i.e., 25% of the total population. So you add 28% and 25% and you find that 53% of the state is either non-white or mixed race.  Other states may be less mixed than we are, but clearly USA is becoming truly a melting pot nation.

Final question.  There have been 8 nation-wide, Ivy League studies of racial bigotry among Caucasians in the last 20 years.  What percentage of people in these studies answers that they distrust, hate or won’t associate with members of another race?  The answer varied from ½ to 3 percent. Scientifically, that is the proportion of racial bigots in America.

Clearly over 97% of people don’t fit the stereotype of bigots.  So why can’t we get over this race-baiting and stoking of differences?  Why can’t it be content of character rather than color of skin as King said?  It is because the party that loves to say they are scientific also loves to gin up its base with fear and hate about “white people”. Indeed, the great hope of the Democrats is that the demographics of minorities will swamp those whose origins were in Europe and that the Dems will be able to keep big majorities of minority voters.  But notice that in the red state OK “white” is a minority.  And the first R who comes along on a national scale to debunk the Dems’ race baiting will quickly change the landscape of politics.  For the Republican party is a party of majority ideas—it tries to assemble a winning coalition from ideas held by a majority of people.  Democrats are a party of assembling minorities to become a majority and using emotion to gin up their base.

Hence the field of R’s for President is so threatening to Dems. The chances of a winner being or picking a Veep from among the 5 minority candidates who began this race are high.

Maybe Martin Luther King will finally get his dream.