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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Paul Craig Roberts Asks "Are Americans Racists?"

“Racist” is the favorite epithet of the left. Every white person (except leftists) is a racist by definition. As we are defined as racists based on our skin color, I am puzzled why we are called racists a second, third, and fourth time due to specific acts, such as favoring the enforcement of immigration laws. For example, President Donald Trump says he is going to enforce the immigration laws. For the left this is proof that Trump has put on the White Sheet and joined the KKK.

The left doesn’t say what a president is who does not enforce the laws on the books. But let’s look at this from the standpoint of the immigration laws themselves. In 1965 a bill passed by the “racist” Congress and signed by the “racist” President Lyndon Johnson completely changed the racial composition of US legal immigration.

In 1960 75% of US legal immigration was European, 5% was Asian, and 19% was from Americas (Mexico, Central and South America and Caribbean Islands).

In 2013 10% of legal immigrants were European, 30% were Asian, 55% were from Americas, and 5% from Africa.

The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act is a very strange law for racists to have enacted. Would racists pass a law, which has been on the books for 52 years, that fundamentally transformed the racial profile of the US by limiting white immigration, thereby ultimately consigning whites to minority status?

We could say the racists did not know what they were doing, or thought they were doing something else. However, the results have been obvious at least since 1980, and the law is still on the books.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is Al sharpton and eric holder on there ?.

Anonymous said...

can everyone just shut up ? everybody isn't going to love everybody. there will never be universal peace and harmony. we're humans. it's not going to happen. just shut up. go to work, pay your bills, buy your groceries and shut up about it.

Anonymous said...

Of course we're racists. This is America, right?

Anonymous said...

Americans, and every other country country that allows foreign immigration, are racist. And they will remain so until the Muslims take over through legal, and illegal, immigration and unchecked procreation with many wives. Then there will be no racism....many races, but only one religion. That's the Muslim plan. And apparently the liberal plan for America. Like our densely populated coastal cities, once the Muslims get a voter majority, all of our freedoms will be taken away by Sharia law, imposed by what used to be a minority immigrant group. Race will mean nothing, but there will only be one religion, by law. Unconstitutional, you say? So is illegal immigration, but we've seen what 8 years of a president that ignored the constitution did to this country. But then there's Trump. He IS the "Great White Hope" for America.

Anonymous said...

It's all just political BS and people are tired of it. Nothing racist about it they've yelled wolf too many times now it is meaning list. Just another way to bully someone