THE VANISHING AMERICAN | 2008-05-29
I was just reading a description of the present situation in San Francisco. In passing, they said, "as in most major cities, blacks are moving out."
Twenty years ago the inevitable future was that major cities were all going to become ghettoes with all the affluent whites out in the suburbs. Nobody seems to notice that the "inevitable future" changes every decade or two like every other fad.
I was bemused by another point in the discussion It turns out that, as with "other major cities," the whites moving in are HAVING TOO FEW CHILDREN. Now PLEASE don't turn these little observations into a grand prediction of a grand revolution in thinking that is inevitable in the future. I just think it is healthy to keep pointing out how SILLY all these prophecies, INCLUDING THE PROPHECIES OF DOOM, are.
In 1900, the inevitable was represented by the phrase The Vanishing American. Indians were dying out. Ever since the end of slavery, when the black death rate suddenly doubled, blacks were an ever-decreasing portion of the American population. Blacks who moved north died because of their lack of "the sunshine vitamin," Vitamin D, because their black skins blocked their getting adequate sun.
We all know what The Inevitable Future of Race was in 2000. Our job is to change it.