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White babies a minority in US

Non-white children under the age of five are now the majority of the US population, according to the Census Bureau.

Thus more whites are dying than being born.

New population estimates released Thursday reveal a striking shift in the composition of America’s population as racial and ethnic minority births are also outpacing minority deaths.

Meanwhile non-Hispanic whites are experiencing negative population growth, seeing 61,841 more deaths than births between 2013 and 2014.

The Census reports that in the past decade, the population has become more diverse, with the percentage of ethic and racial minorities growing from 32.9 percent to 37.9 percent over the last decade.

Indeed, the report notes that Millennials — now representing more than a quarter of the population, more than the 75.4 million Baby Boomers — are more diverse than earlier generations as 44.2 percent belong to a minority group.

With the nation as a whole barreling toward a minority-majority future, there are already states where racial and ethnic minorities actually make up the majority. Specifically there are four states and the District of Columbia: Hawaii (77.0 percent), the District of Columbia (64.2 percent), California (61.5 percent), New Mexico (61.1 percent) and Texas (56.5 percent).

There are other states on the precipice of a minority-majority population such as Nevada where 48.9 percent is minority.

According to the Census more than 11 percent of the nation’s 3,142 counties, or 364, were already majority-minority. This year, the Census noted that five became majority minority between 2013-2014, specifically: Russell, Alabama, Newton, Georgia, Eddy, New Mexico, Brazoria, Texas, and Suffolk city, Virginia.

The data comes as a Census report earlier this year projected that by 2044 more than half of the population in the United States would be part of a minority group.

Source: Breitbart

Indian governor calls for removal of Confederate flag

The Indian governor of South Carolina Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state Capitol Monday, less than a week after a 21-year-old white man gunned down nine people at a historic African American church.

Support for the flag to come down from leaders around the state and around the country has been steadily growing in the wake of the attack.

“Today, we are here in a moment of unity in our state, without ill will, to say it is time to move the flag from the Capitol grounds,” Haley said during a news conference attended by Republican senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, along with other state leaders.

Haley called on Monday for South Carolina to do what just a week ago seemed politically impossible. The announcement was met by applause and cheers from those in attendance.

Haley said The flag “does not represent the future of our great state”. Jeb Bush, who ordered the removal of the flag from the Florida statehouse while governor, said he was confident that South Carolina would “do the right thing”.

The MSM is still strangely silent on the shooting in Philidelphia.

Haley is one of two sitting Indian American governors in the United States, the other being fellow Republican Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. She is also the third non-white person to have been elected as governor of a Southern state.

Meanwhile doubts were raised about the authenticity of the shooter’s “manifesto”. It is highly unlikely that a 9th grade dropout somehow attained exceptional writing skills, yet there has been no investigation by the media into the matter.

The two black shooters from West-Philidelphia have not issued a manifesto yet.

SA’s first coloniser was a coloured

If President Zuma wants to blame the first Dutch “settler” he must look at Simon van der Stel, says T Kleyn

After President Jacob Zuma’s idiotic statement that all the problems in South Africa started with the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in 1652, we have been noticing quite a number of Jan van Riebeeck profile pictures, cartoons and T-shirts on sale.

As could be expected, I would personally consider doing anything civilised to annoy Zuma as well.

But I think one should have one last word about this and then we can focus on the future again, instead of doing the ANC thing of dwelling in the past forever.

Van Riebeeck was sent to the Cape to establish a halfway station for the trade ships of the Dutch East India Company. There never was an intention to colonise or settle.

We know that all too well, because he sent out only a few expeditions to trade cattle with the Khoi-groups in the Peninsula and allowed the first free citizens to measure out small farms only after a lengthy correspondence with Amsterdam. Van Riebeeck left the Cape after a decade, never to return.

No, if Zuma wants to blame the first Dutch “settler” we must look at the arrival of the last commander of the Cape who also became the first governor in 1679.

On November 3, 1679, he arrived at a lovely spot nestled in the mountains by a river and decided to establish a “colony” of people there in a new town.

This was a clear indication that the man, Simon van der Stel, who named the new town, Stellenbosch, after himself, intended to stay.

After his retirement he never left the Cape but went to live on his farm, Groot Constantia, despite the fact that his children all returned to the Netherlands.

He lived for another 14 years before dying, respected and known as “Father Simon” by the people of the Cape – black and white alike. Van der Stel was the first colonialist.

We have no reliable portrait of him, only a description which tells us that he was short and stocky with very dark hair, oriental eyes, a small flat nose and a yellowish complexion. In the records of the Dutch East India Company, Van der Stel is described as “mestizo” – non-white. His mother was the daughter of captain Hendrick Lievens and a Batavian slave woman Mai Monica da Costa van Java.

Zuma, your first “European coloniser” wasn’t even a white man. In today’s South Africa he would be regarded as a coloured person.

T Kleyn

Pew: Next US generation more than 50% non-white

For the first time in American history, non-whites will make up half or more of the next generation, likely pushing Washington toward a bigger government — and the GOP better tone down their anti-government rhetoric if they want to win them, according to a top polling outfit.

At a briefing for congressional aides hosted by the moderate Republican Ripon Society, Pew Research Vice President Michael Dimock said that the trend among younger Americans is support for government programs and acceptance of Democratic Party policies.

“Their tendency is more liberal, their tendency is bigger government,” he said of so-called “millennials” born between 1979 and 1995. They will likely set the trend for the still-unnamed next generation.

“This is a generation that is 41 percent non-white; the generation behind it is likely to be close to 50 if not more than 50 percent non-white, and the anti-government kind of tone is one that really doesn’t resonate with that non-white sector in particular,” said Dimock at the Ripon retreat.

His advice to the GOP: “Try to take as much of the anti-government rhetoric out.”

Ripon provided Secrets with a video of his recent presentation. In it, he said that younger voters are both pro-government and pro-business, split over gun control, back abortion and believe welfare does more good than harm. What’s more, they are not angry voters and are still politically diverse.

“I think he confirmed what a lot of Republicans already know, that the party has a lot of work to do with younger Americans, who view the GOP as politically rigid and ideologically out of step. If there’s a bright spot, it’s that millennials are increasingly untethered to either party, which means there’s a chance for Republicans to win them back,” said Ripon’s Lou Zickar.

Pollster John Zogby, who has dubbed millennials First Globals in his new book, said those born after 1979 already number 75 million and will grow to become bigger than the 78-million strong Baby Boom generation, and that should be good for Democrats.

We asked him about Dimock’s prediction and characterization of the current and coming generation.

Said Zogby, who does our weekly report card on President Obama: “The 41 percent non-white figure is right on the money and so is the projection. There is a strong libertarian streak, but they largely do not hate government if it can prove to be a problem-solver. They have no patience for loud debates and for bureaucratic entropy, favoring quick and streamlined forms of problem-solving and decision-making — just as they have learned in video games. There is also an upside to their all having received a trophy: They are great believers and practitioners in teamwork. This is potentially great news for Democrats and liberals (34 percent call themselves such), but mainly it is worse news for the GOP, who have no meaningful outreach or connectivity with them.”

Source: The Washington Examiner