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.
#1 by AFKANNow on 05/29/2008 - 11:34 pm
None of them understand that, given $5/gal gas, going to rationing, we must remember that WE are the Creative Race, and can Do Something about most any thing, one way or another – IF we choose to do so.
The cities may well be inhabitable once again – not all of them, of course, such as Detroit – but those with the ability to act as regional clusters for productive enterprises, particularly in agriculture will have a good chance.
I know of too many people who are citing Peak Oil as the end of the world, when it really isn’t.
It’s the end of one world, and the beginning of another, based on dramatically different energy economics.
Quick comment on formation/abandonment policies:
Note that there was nothing there before we came, and nothing there, after we leave.
The American Southwest might prove to be truly exciting, say, fifty years from now, when the Reconquista owns a desert…
In the meantime, SOMETHING must happen to shift the focus of our Race back to Conquest mode.
With my nephews, I can say this:
I’m doing my part!