According to the last US census, roughly 62% of Americans self-identified as solely being White, 18% Hispanic/Latino, 13% African American, 6% Asian, and 1% American Indian/Alaskan Native (These numbers do not reflect those who identify as being bi-racial, or identify as one race, between several, etc.) Minority population gains accounted for about 95% of the U.S. population increase, largely due to Hispanic and Asian immigration, and more births. The next generation of Millennials are more diverse than any previous generation. More than 44% are part of a minority race or ethnicity. Nearly every year on trend, the percentages of minorities increase, and those of Whites decrease. Of course at present, the numbers aren't exactly neck and neck, but by most predictions in the coming decades those numbers may shift dramatically.
I think it is fair to say, White people are the current power holders in American society. What I mean by that is they are represented in politics, in the upper stratospheres of society as movers and shakers, on tv and social media, they are in many cases, majority policy makers and control the images and messages and politics of this country. When they or any other group has held power for so long, it stands to reason that they wouldn't want to see that level of power they have enjoyed fall into other hands. We can take the racial aspect out of this equation and just look at gender politics in this country as an example. When women wanted to vote, most men for quite some time, quite literally fought tooth and nail in order to prevent this from happening--why--because that was seen as a threat to their established order and control over the decision making in this country.
We see it subtly and not so subtly in this country. With Obama for example--someone who challenged the idea of the old order, 43 White presidents before him, he didn't just win and all racism stopped because he was the highest leader in the land--no, people even in politics frequently made his race a top issue, and by issue, I mean problem. I'm not even speaking to his politics, because politics when you are president are ALWAYS fair game to debate and support or not support and anybody should challenge a presidents policies and ideas, but simply the idea of a Black man, or in actuality, a Bi-racial man, holding power was threatening to so many people because now, that's opened the door to the highest office in the land to minorities in general because there has already been a first, and a first for 8 years at that.
In a less political realm, how about the likes of TV and movies? Many minorities in ever increasing numbers have been demanding equal, or at least some form of representation in movies. You hear this backlash by some towards that saying that it isn't necessary but of course that some that cry the loudest, tend to be the some that are represented in spades on television, movies, magazines, etc.
It seems that there is this under current running through our society of this last big struggle by the established order to hold on by any means possible. Can't blame them, because as I said, this isn't a struggle that's unique to just ones race, but all aspects of those in power vs. those that aren't. In this case though, do White people fear a take-over, that they may someday have to be the ones fighting for rights or power or representation? I mean it's one thing now that White people have it because they don't have to think about these things because they've always existed for them, and another when the numbers are a little more even or evenly distributed by populous to reflect the way America is now or in the future. Do White people fear a take-over?
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