...will be a new category of this blog, at least as long as I can write on the topic and stay out of jail for doing do.
To start off with, let's ask a question that has been asked before, but for which I have NEVER seen an answer from any lefty who counted. The Left has to answer this question, because they are the ones constantly expanding the definition of minority and including new "minorities" for special consideration and "protection" from the rest of us non-minorities.
At some point, given the requirement to "legally describe" minority classes, an exact enumeration of minorities can be made. It's already made in the US Census, due to come around again next year.
Since, supposedly, every person of minority status IS known to the Government, and every person of ANY status is known to the Government, there ought to be a simple breakdown somewhere of minority vs. non-minority numbers. If the Census were accurate, and properly counted, including all the illegals in the country, perhaps as many as 30,000,000 of them, it's possible that us non-minority Caucasians (are there any other non-minority people?) are already in the minority.
This isn't a play on words, people. If you read the previous post about the new US Attorney General, Eric Holder, you would have noted that he wants to extend government-lawyer privileges to all foreign nationals detained for deportation. It is but a VERY SMALL STEP from there to extending government protection, as a minority class, to all illegals currently in the country.
If illegals make up 10% of the current population, and there is a good possibility of that, then we Caucasians may already be a minority.
To make the question more difficult to answer (or easier for the Left to dismiss out of hand), first it has to be decided whether numbers alone puts one in a minority class. If there are fewer Caucasians than other minorities, we are a NUMERICAL MINORITY (whites vs. non-whites) by definition. That's one form of minority, but I suspect that even if I marched into Federal Court with the best attorney available, I would have a difficult time proving that I actually WAS a minority, because the political process loads up this question with intangibles.
Am I a member of an "oppressed" class of people by race? By circumstances? BY MY OWN DOING? These are all the "qualifiers" that the Left has placed on defining a minority.
If we accept the Left's constantly-variable definition of a minority, it's entirely possible that even when whites get down to the last definable individual with solely Caucasian genetics, that person STILL won't be defined as a minority, even though he or she would certainly qualify as an endangered sub-species.
So, in reality, isn't this whole business of minorities just a convenient (for the Left) political construct? A construct which changes with every change of political administration?
If it is, as I suspect, purely political, the whole idea of minority status should be scrapped, because we ARE all politically equal in this country. Some folks' personal foibles prevent them from acting on the premise of total political equality, but it is a REAL construct, backed up by law and legal precedent, while political "minority status" is not Constitutional OR logical. In fact, every "legal" attempt to elevate behavior to protected status is, on it's face, un-Constitutional.
I guess the real question is, then, why do we bother? Race is SUPPOSED to be a non-issue in this nation, but will it ever get there if government keeps favoring political constituencies with minority status, then granting those with that status things of value, such as "free" education, or job security which non-minorities can not get at any price?
I ask the questions, and will publish any THINKING replies.