Pete Bungum's BLOG - Day 26,114 in my journey through life.

Today is Saturday, May 19, 2012 - again it is a a sunny warm day (but we still need rain). I'm grateful for another day of "I;m HIV."
This morning I did yoga, the exercise ball and walked 54 minutes = 3.0 miles for a May total of 46.8 miles. My weight went up to 161.6 pounds.

MY THOUGHTS FOR TODAY. In Friday's paper the headline was; "Minority babies now in majority." My first thought was about the white-skinned older conservative elements of our society and how they would react to those headlines. I'm sure it was not positive because it is what they have been afraid of for many years, e.g. that white people will no longer be the majority in the U.S. and that blacks, Hispanics and Asians will take over this country.

Here are the reasons for the population shift in AMERICA:  The white population in the U.S. is getting older and producing fewer white kids while the younger members of our nation are younger and producing more kids, especially among the Hispanics. The median age for whites in America is 42 while the median age for Hispanics is 28 - which means they are in their prime childbearing years. Blacks and Asians have median ages in their early 30s. Minorities now make up 37%of the U.S. population. The Census Bureau forecasts that by 2042 non-Hispanics whites will be outnumbered in the U.S. by Hispanics, blacks and Asians.

My reaction was about the opposite - here's why. One way we can get rid (or at least reduce it) of racism is for all people to be somewhat the same color. Brazil and other Latin American countries are mainly brown-toned people. It is a result of intermarriage between the white-skinned Spanish and Portugese and the Indians and the slaves. And racism is not a major problem in those nations. So maybe someday, probably several hundred years, we will see an American population that is more brown toned and then we can discard the 'N" word from our vocabulary. It's worth a thought.