"At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected?
"I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It
cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves
be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live
through all time, or die by suicide."
So said Abe Lincoln to the Young Men's Lyceum in Springfield.
Observing the Senate last week, and looking over the latest figures
from the Census Bureau, America is now risking national suicide.
Last week, senators meeting in secret produced a bill to legalize our
12 million to 20 million illegal aliens. If a path to citizenship
becomes law, nothing will stop the next invasion. As President Bush
acknowledges, 6 million tried to breach our Southern border in his
first five years. One in 12 -- 500,000 -- had a criminal record.
According to the Census Bureau, from mid-2005 to mid-2006, the U.S.
minority population rose 2.4 million, to exceed 100 million.
Hispanics, 1 percent of the population in 1950, are now 14.4 percent.
Their total number has soared 25 percent since 2000 alone. The Asian
population has also grown by 25 percent since 2000.
The number of white kids of school age fell 4 percent, however. Half
the children 5 and younger in the United States are now minorities.
What is happening to us? An immigrant invasion of the United States
from the Third World, as America's white majority is no longer even
reproducing itself. Since Roe v. Wade, America has aborted 45 million
of her children. And Asia, Africa and Latin America have sent 45
million of their children to inherit the estate the aborted American
children never saw. God is not mocked.
And white America is in flight.
In the 1990s, for the first time since the Spanish came, whites left
California. Two million departed. From July 1, 2005, to July 1, 2006,
100,000 more packed up and headed back whence their fathers came. The
"Anglo" population of the Golden State is down to 43 percent and
falling fast. White folks are now a minority in Texas and New Mexico.
In Arizona, Hispanics account for over half the population under 20.
The future is not in doubt. Why ought this be of concern?
First, while the black and Hispanic population combined is now 85
million -- five times what it was in 1960 -- half of all black and
Hispanic kids drop out of high school. And the average math and
reading scores of the half who graduate are at seventh-, eighth- or
ninth-grade levels.
And the future is not so sanguine as it seemed 50 years ago. As I
write in "State of Emergency":
"In 1960, 18 million black Americans, 10 percent of the nation, were
not fully integrated into society, but they had been assimilated into
our culture. They worshiped the same God, spoke the same language, had
endured the same Depression and war, watched the same TV shows on the
same four channels, laughed at the same comedians, went to the same
movies, ate the same foods, read the same newspapers and went to
schools where, even when segregated, we learned the same history and
literature and shared the same holidays: Christmas, New Year's,
Washington's Birthday, Easter, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day,
Columbus Day. Segregation existed, but black folks were as American as
apple pie, having lived in this land longer than almost every other
group save the Native Americans.
"That cultural unity, that sense that we were one people, is gone."
Today's immigrants exceed in number anything any nation has ever
known. They now come from cultures and countries whose people have
never before been assimilated by any First World country. Not only is
the Melting Pot broken, it is rejected by our elites. Minorities are
urged to hold onto their own language, customs, traditions. Identity
politics is in. And the largest cohort, Mexicans, comes from a country
with a historic grievance and a claim on the territory they are
entering.
Moreover, since the cultural revolution of the 1960s, we have been
fighting one another over issues of race and ethnicity, history,
heroes and holidays, morality and religion, right and wrong.
All over the Western world, multiethnic, multicultural countries are
coming apart over language, ethnicity, history. The Soviet Union broke
into 15 nations, Yugoslavia into half a dozen. Czechs and Slovaks
divorced. Scots want separation from England. Catalans and Basques
seek independence. Corsicans and Bretons want out of France. Northern
Italians want to secede. Only immigrants who prefer Ottawa prevent
Quebecois from breaking free of Canada.
As we see from the election battles in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and
Mexico, race and ethnicity are not receding as issues, but rising. In
South Central Los Angeles, black and Hispanic gangs are at war over
race and turf.
Addressing the Knights of Columbus in 1915, Theodore Roosevelt warned,
"The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of
preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all,
would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling
nationalities."
In every way possible, Americans have said they do not want to take
this risk with their country. Why then are our elites taking it?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=20823
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