David Duke's Nightmare Comes True!

What's a white supremacist to do? Consider the events of recent years. First, David Duke's own party (the GOP) all but abandons the "Southern strategy", hires Condi Rice as Secretary of State and Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General. Then, the country as a whole has the nerve to elect its first African American president. To crown it all off, last week, Republicans picked Michael Steele to head up the RNC. Here's what Duke had to say about the selection in a none-too-subtle piece, titled "To Hell with the Republican Party: GOP traitors appoint Obama Junior as Chairman of the Republican Party":

The Republican Party leadership, in its latest act of self-immolation appointed Michael Steele, a radical black racist as the leader of the Party.

Steele is a passionate supporter of affirmative action programs that racially discriminate against tens of millions of White Americans.

You get the gist. Capitalize "White", lowercase "black." Same old story. To add insult to injury, another black guy, Eric Holder, has been confirmed as the nation's top law enforcement official. Oh, and don't forget Obama's pick of a Jew, Rahm Emanuel, as his Chief-of-Staff. Yes, it seems like the former KKK-Grand-Wizard's nightmare of a post-racial America might just be coming true.

Those obsessed with the notion of "pure blood" (that includes you, Lord Voldemort) felt their collective pulse rise earlier this year when headlines across the country reported a census bureau finding that in the year 2050, whites will officially become a minority population in these United States. But the assertion was true only if you held a perverse, and racist, notion of what constitutes racial identity.As The Boston Globe explained:

So what explains the persistent drumbeat about the impending white minority? A statistical distortion: the exclusion of Hispanic whites. If only non-Hispanic whites are counted, the white population today amounts to 66 percent of the total, and will hit around 46 percent by 2050.

But excluding whites of Hispanic origin from the overall white population makes no more sense than excluding whites of Slavic or Scandinavian origin. "Hispanic" is not a race. It is an ethnic category.

But whatever the genetic/cultural distinctions, there is no doubt that the face of the country is changing--both in the population at large, and as regards those who control its levers of power. For racists like David Duke, that's nothing to celebrate.