Need to Know, September 21, 2012: America by the numbers

When will AT&T U-Verse air this in Atlanta?  I don’t see it in their listings.

PBS always beating the drum that “we need more diversity” in this country, but only if the ‘diversity’ has brown skin, black eyes and hair…that’s not very ‘diverse’ at all, now is it?.

Would this be acceptable or in any third world country if the ‘new immigrants’ were of European stock?

Hey I loved the program but I noticed an error…the 1st interview in the program contained discussion about different states. A picture of arkansas with its abbreviation was shown. The abbreviation shown was AK…that’s the abbreviation for Alaska. Arkansas is AR. Otherwise keep up the good work!

Great program! Thanks for producing it!

In one segment of this broadcast,
Maria Hinojosa asked a white storeowner and his wife if they had anything to
fear from the increasing numbers of non-white immigrants coming to
Georgia. The man and his wife answered
that they did not (mainly because their business has flourished as a result of
all their new immigrant customers). I
agree that there is no reason to be afraid, but I’m not ready to celebrate. Indeed, I feel that some sadness might be in
order. Your program was yet another
reminder that the number of white people (or persons of European stock) is
surely on the decline in the world.
American and Europe are steadily becoming more and more diverse while
the developing world is not. Like hundreds
of small towns throughout our nation—and like every urban area—Clarkston, GA is
now home to thousands of refugees from throughout the third world—but India is as
Indian as ever, China is as Chinese as ever, Mexico is as Mexican as ever, etc. It would be wonderful—and truly something to
celebrate—if the whole world was diversifying as much as America and
Europe. Instead we are witnessing the
dwindling of one segment our human family that—arguably—has contributed more
than any other to human progress.

Another source of my sadness comes
for the countries that these immigrants and refugees left behind. One scene in the program depicted a family
from Myanmar welcoming their baby boy into the world. When Maria asked them what hopes they had for
their newborn son they replied that they wanted him to become president (of the
United States) someday. In another
scene, a Somali immigrant woman revealed that she hoped to one day become Mayor
of Clarkston. The hope and confidence of these folks is
heartwarming—but wouldn’t it have been truly inspiring if they would have used
that same passion and ambition to stay in their home countries and fight for
change. Yes, it would have been
difficult—maybe they would have been imprisoned, tortured, or even killed. Any maybe, I don’t have any right to say this
since I’m living the good life in America.
But how is the world—as a whole—ever going to defeat tyranny unless good
people stay in their home lands and fight for change. Early on her opposition to the dictatorship in
Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi was offered free passage to England by the government. She declined, and instead stayed to fight
oppression, remaining under house arrest for years. Today, she is a member of parliament, and
Myanmar is progressing towards democracy.
Heroism like that is really something to celebrate!

The current migration since the 70′s, is due to economic and political hardship that these countries are suffering because of US foreign policies. US is always fighting wars, or sponsoring wars.

When the US support dictators around different corners of the world, either for the so called “National Security”, or just plain Imperialistic ventures, people die and many get displaced. Some migrate to the US. Vietnamese and Iraqis for example, would have been happy in their homeland, had US not invaded, decimated their land, and killed millions of people in these countries.

When American corporations systematically through the World Bank and IMF, disenfranchise countless communities in poor countries, with the collaboration of a few rich crooks in these countries, there is hunger and unemployment. Most of these loans are never used for the benefit of the citizens. They usually go into personal foreign bank accounts. But the poor, are made to repay these loans, as a result of which these vulture banks, swoop in and take natural resources with fair compensation and cut services to the citizens. Those who can afford to, migrate to the US and other countries.

It is easy for a reasonable person to see why these people, including myself came to America. We would rather be with our families, but US government and US corporations, made it impossible for us to live where we were born.

Wake up Americans, crimes are being committed in your names.

Full disclosure: This is coming from a European-American perspective.
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As Urdguasm eloquently described above, I, too, question whether European-American displacement is something to celebrate like we are constantly encouraged in the mainstream media by ethnic writers. As only time will tell, it will be interesting to see how well Clarkston is thriving in 10-20 years. Will it be dominated by gangs, crime, corruption and poverty at levels above the national average?
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The problem as I perceive it is that these immigrants bring their failed ideologies with them and seek to implement those same ideologies here. None of those countries listed above from which these immigrants come are successful by any standard, let alone a U.S. standard. Also, these immigrants have no historical ties to the U.S. or our long, hard-fought struggles to achieve the freedoms, culture and society that Europeans founded here. Will they embrace our liberal ideals such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion? Will they endeavor to further entitlements through legislation and the courts? Again, only time will tell whether this dubious experiment in social engineering proves beneficial to everyone.
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nonsense. easy to blame the US for your failings as a people. Harder to hang in there and make changes

Let’s not forget that the US; America was taken from the Native Americans. They are the only ones who truly have the right to call this home. Let’s also not forget that Black people were carted over here against their will to work the land for the European-Caucasians who uprooted an entire culture. It never ceases to amaze me how some white people have selective memory about this. What goes around comes around. If any feel the country is being taken over…becoming more diverse…well…look to history.

Yes! You get it Burt!

Will this be available to watch online any time soon? I’d like to show my students.

Does it matter to you that 70% of the American Founding Fathers were active abolitionists? And that 375,000 northern white men gave their lives to free the slaves in the Civil War? And shall we forget that the 200 Native American tribes were always migrating and conquering each other? When the white settlers came, there were hundreds of miles of wide open spaces. But when the indian hunters came across the Little House On The Prairie families, they mutilated hundreds of them. The Calvary chased them out and the indians retreated. Later, most indians intermarried with whites and are fellow Americans today.

I reviewed a book about Clarkston, GA refugee children playing soccer, and in that review is a link to a Congressional report on the integration of refugees in Clarkston.

Christianity is no where near dying out in America. Over 70% of Americans are Christian, and of those that are religious, over 92% of them are Christian. Globally, Christianity is still the most popular religion. Your belief that non-white is synonymous with non-Christian is plain ignorant.