Race Talk | riversled's Blog

Walter E Williams, professor of economics at George Mason University asks the question,

"Are black Americans a minority group? When one uses the term minority, there is an inference that somewhere out there is a majority but in the United States we are a nation of minorities. According to the U.S. Census Bureau 2000 census, where people self-identify, the ancestry of our largest ethnic groups are people of German ancestry (15.2 percent), followed by Irish (10.8 percent), African (8.8), and English (8.7) ancestry. Of the 92 ethnic groups listed, in the census, 75 of them are less than 1 percent of our population."

When listening to politicians as well as the media, this article provides some perspective around what I'm hearing. Check it out...

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/09/RaceTalk.htm