Jim’s Reviews > White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century > Status Update

[On White Americans] "They have a choice: regain a sense of identity and the resolve to maintain their numbers, their traditions, and their way of life-or face oblivion."

Our current immigration policies will make the United States a poorer, grimmer, more dangerous country for everyone. Hispanics expect to gain increasing power by increasing their numbers, but they will find they have gained power in a country that increasingly resembles the failed nations from which they thought they had escaped. It is in everyone's interest to cut immigration to zero."

"Today, the campaign to free the slaves is seen as a conscious step towards complete racial equality. In fact, the majority of antebellum Americans favored abolition only if it was coupled with colonization. This was Jefferson's view and Lincoln's view, and was articulated by many abolitionists."

"In a war-time poll taken in 1943, 90 percent of white Americans reportedly said they would rather lose the war than give full equality to American blacks."

"Earlier generations of white Americans had a strong racial consciousness. Current assumptions about race are a dramatic reversal of the views not only of the Founding Fathers but of the great majority of Americans up until the 1950s and 1960s."

"Most whites in America have a consciousness of race that is very different from that of minorities. They do not attach much importance to the fact that they are white, and they view race as an illegitimate reason for decision-making of any kind. Many whites have made a genuine effort to transcend race and to see people as individuals."

"If some Mexican Americans have their way, they will not have to go back to Mexico for burial; Mexico will come to them. What is called the Reconquista movement aims to break the Southwest off from the United States and reattach it to Mexico to establish it as an independent, all-Hispanic nation, thus reversing the territorial consequences of the Mexican American war."

"Hispanics resemble blacks in their vivid sense of their own group interests, their tendency to see the world in racial/ethnic terms, and their reluctance to adopt the broader American identity whites think necessary for integration and assimilation. This identity is kept fresh by the continous arrival of new immigrants."

"For many blacks, race is a central part of their identity. Their view of politics, history, government, or culture is bound up in a strong sense of themselves as a distinct race with distinct interests. Many assume that the job of a black leader is to work openly for the benefit of blacks. This deeply rooted racial consciousness can express itself as a sense of separateness from "white" America."

"To criticize diversity raises the intolerable possibility that the United States has been acting on mistaken assumptions for half a century. To talk glowingly about diversity therefore became a form of cheerleading for America. It even became common to say that diversity was our greatest strength-something that would have astonished any American from the colonial era through the 1950s."