So I actually read the above article in one of my many news feeds when I woke up this morning (Well morning is a relative term since I rarely wake up before 9am and am usually not functional until around 10ish at the earliest.) I then trotted onto Facebook and lo and behold one of my many friends had posted yet another article on the same subject. Now, as so many things tend to do, this got me to thinking and anyone who knows me can tell you that this is a bad thing to happen. It is right up there with wearing white after Labor Day.
As per usual, my thoughts did not automatically turn in the direction that others did. I did not ponder if White Privilege actually still exists. Historically, you cannot argue that it didn't exist since pretty much any laws passed prior to say 1940 pretty much are weighted towards White Anglo Saxon Christian Males or WASCM (Just for Gits and Shiggles, lets pronounce that Racism even though it technically probably sounds more like WAS-CAM.) Anyone with any sort of common sense and grasp of reality has to admit this. Anyone who denies it has serious problems grasping reality.
Like I said, I am not going to argue whether WP is still prevalent today. I will leave that to much wiser heads and the Nutballs on Facebook. No, my dear readers, my ponderance today is about the future. Not even the far future, just the future that is right around the corner in say 5-10 years. I am pondering the plight of those poor WASCMs when they become the minority.
See, here is the thing. As the Majority and the people who have been in power for the past two hundred years, WASCMs have made law after law that benefited them and in a trickle down form, their families. Other races and cultures were pretty much told "Hey we are in charge, so we get the benefits." Prayer in schools, Check as long as it is Christian Prayer. "One nation under God"? Check, as long as it is the Christian God. I mean lets face it, Special New Laws had to be enacted to give Women and Non-Whites the same rights and privileges as WASCMs.
So what happens when the WASCM is no longer the dominant majority? Experts predict that Whites will become the Minority in the US somewhere between 2020 and 2025. So what happens when the new Majority start doing exactly what WASCMS did for centuries. What happens when they start passing laws that benefit them over the new Minority? I predict loud and angry howls of righteous rage over unfair treatment. It is coming folks, just wait for it.
Hells, it is already happening. Politicians trying to pass laws that allow Creationism (Christian of course) to be taught in schools is only one example. Dozens of attempts by people in power to suppress or alter Minority Votes through restrictive voting laws and redistricting is another. I don't think the common man on the street has realized it yet, but I promise you that the people who are actually in power are running spitless in fear.
WASCM will "Not go quietly into that good night" and they shouldn't because it is entirely within the realm of possibilities that the new majority could turn as oppressive as the old one is now. However, new times are a coming and they need to start adapting to them. But that is just my two cents. (Really, no one notice the lion and no one is freaked out by the fact it talks?)
End of Rant
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