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They see in the personality of their cult leader,
Donald Trump, their idea of a white savior who will keep the
“brown hordes” at bay and allow them continued political and
economic hegemony over those “others.”
Trump, as a white nationalist, senses this and nurses
their fear that one day, white America will wake up in a
land not known to them but inhabited by more and more people
of color.
For Trump’s anxious base, that is a cause for alarm
and irrational behavior, thinking that they may be on the
short end of the stick as it comes to fairness and equality
before the law.
These are two non-negotiable criteria of an American
democracy which for so many centuries, were denied by white
people to black and brown people.
If the bean counters at the Census Bureau in the
national government are counting correctly, by the year
2042, brown and black people (including Latinos and Native
Americans), will, numbers wise, rule the roost.
If you are a white person in America who has
irrational racial fears and phobias of all things black and
brown, that new America may give you pause for concern and
what better time than now to express those concerns to the
politicos who can stem the tide of this racial tsunami?
Trump knows that many in white America are not willing
to give up their perks and privileges and share the pie with
others based on their corrupted thinking that they worked
for their economic goodies, fair and square; and they are
willing to march to a far-right Republican ideology in order
to maintain the status quo.
Ever since white America created in 1619 the time
bomb known as chattel slavery, the colorization of America
has been slowly migrating towards a population that reflects
a lower birth rate for white Americans and a higher birth
rate for people of color.
Now that population growth has morphed into a
demonizing of people of color by white politicos who see
advantages in reminding their base via the use of “dog
whistle” politics that they better hold the line at
immigration and racial inclusion; and if not, the
Butterscotch Babies are on the move!
And now… enter stage right: The Butterscotch Babies!
These are the babies of interracial marriages and liaisons
and I use the term, “Butterscotch Babies”, to indicate their
light caramel skin color and which babies mark the
cornerstone of the racial fears of the white population that
their daughters or sons will bring home a Butterscotch Baby
and thereby hastening the demise of the white majority
population.
White America has had a long and ugly history of its
treatment of those who are born of the union of a white
person and a person of color. Hollywood pandered to this
racial fascination with movies such as Pinky and
Imitation of Life.
Racial coding in this country has not retreated from
the recesses of our collective consciousness. Spike Lee’s
two movies, Jungle Fever and School Daze
revealed embarrassing secrets of the unspoken racial codes
that influenced Black Greek fraternity life, and America’s
fascination with racial dating.
Why, we even had state laws that said that if you
violated the racial taboo of interracial dating or marriage,
your life would be in danger of having a “necktie” party
sponsored by outraged parents or mobs, or you being ran out
of town with a threat that your return could be your last.
But with racial coding not as explicit as before (it
was permissible for Mr. Charlie to have his way with black
women and to do so without any legal penalty or threat of
physical harm), more and more people are engaged in
interracial couplings so that the march of the Butterscotch
Babies is on the move!
When Sidney Poitier starred in the groundbreaking
movie Guess Who’s
Coming to Dinner,
white folks went apoplectic because they saw their dreams
and hopes of their daughters marrying white and marrying
right, being challenged.
The Butterscotch Babies are marching in lockstep
because their numbers are gaining momentum; and they see
themselves as the front line to knock down the last of the
remaining racial barriers in employment, housing and equal
justice under law.
The Butterscotch Babies will take the baton of the
civil rights era and with confidence, attack anyone who will
dare to mock them or deny them equal privileges under law.
Those Butterscotch Babies will one day sit in
legislatures, on courts and will populate police departments
and mayor offices and will control the levers of economic
power.
No, Donald Trump and his “deplorables” will not win
the fight against these Butterscotch Babies and their
offspring because the numbers show that the eventual
browning of America is a foregone conclusion.
Butterscotch Babies…. march on!
Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com
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