I found a twitter thread discussing how California will run its race classification system if #Prop16 passes and it part of it listed North African/Middle Eastern people under the category of "White/Caucasian" for whatever dumb reason. And i found two black females on the thread saying that the reason they did that is because White people will be a minority soon so in order to stay the majority they decided to boost up their numbers by including Middle Easterners/North African people as "White/Caucasian"
.....what? wtf.... i can't... How can people be this stupid to think this??
Racialism is fucking stupid. California is running into all of the exact same problems that it did in 1870, same with Mississippii.
People forget why Plessy v. Furgueson took place. Homer Plessy was a Civil Rights activist. He'd actually been part of an effort to force the federal courts to address the total innanity of southern Racialist laws.
First, for California, Asians were considered colored, and there way major efforts at discrimination against Asians in California. Some Asians fled to other parts of the US. One specific incident took place when a Chinese immigrant family left from California to move to Mississippii sometime after the Civil War. They purchased land, had a small self-sufficient family farm, and the husband had some sort of a trade, and thus ran a business. I think one of their children was going to marry a white woman. This caused fucking chaos in Mississippi due to their racialst laws and the government really didn't know how to deal with this, and it generated a massive legal dispute that went to the State Supreme Court. The Chinese family argued that while they weren't European, they should be considered white due to their behavior of successfully contributing and integrating into their community, which had no objections to them or the marriage. Somehow, this argument succeeded, in a "one drop" rule state...
However, Homer Plessy, whom you would all identify as an obvious white man, would be considered colored. He was an "Octoon", meaning he was "1/8th" black, because he had a maternal grandmother who was black. He was also a Civil Rights Activist. He was chosen by his organization to try and push the Supreme Court to make some semblance of the insane racialist laws that each state had. Homer Plessy was considered colored in Mississippi, but white in Alabama, and white in most other states. He took a train ride and sat in the the white section in a state in which he was considered white. When the train passed into Mississippi, he announced that he was 1/8th white to a private investigator (that the Civil Rights group had arranged for this case), and he was taken to court for being in the wrong part of the train, despite having been white moments before.
Plessy's argument is, honestly, fucking sound. His genetic lineage never changed, not that anyone could even tell in the first place. Yet somehow, he could bounce back and forth from being white to non-white depending on which state he happened to reside in at a given time. Even different localities might consider him a different race. Because of the arbitrary nature of these racialist laws, white people were being actively discriminated against almost entirely based on their location alone... which was the exact opposite of what all the laws claimed to do.
Unfortunately, SCOTUS was filled with Slaveocratic, Democrat, state-sponsored terrorism protecting, proto-national-socialist progressives that believed in "equality" so long as it could be "separate". They basically made all the same arguments that today's progressives make when it comes to race, particularly that each race needs Libensraum in order to give it sufficient space to grow and develop without the interference of other races that would disturb their natural racial orderings.
And so Jim Crow was firmly established, and Reconstruction was murdered. Homer Plessy still tried to improve race relations and racialism to the best that he could, and while some progress would be made in the north by the 1890, all the actually success in the south would be utterly destroyed.
Homer Plessy, however, was right. Racialism doesn't make any damned sense. Yes, Asians will be merged with whites. So will Jews, and likely Indians (listed under Asians). You should not be surprised that North Africans are going to be declared white because this unrelenting arbitrary stupidity is what racialists HAVE ALWAYS done. Racialism is never meant to benefit any race. It exists to benefit the arbiters and regulators of race. Nothing more.
Very good point. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
It disturbs me greatly to read The United States of Lyncherdom, and see Mark Twain be proven right. He nailed down lynchings for what they truly were. It was never anything about hate. They weren't even angry. It was one giant virtue signal preformed by cowards.
People who were 'to afraid not to be seen' at the lynching.