So much follows from the question of whether or not people who aren’t white Christians are or are not authentically Americans with legitimate rights and interests.More accurately, so much follows from the question of whether or not people who are white Christians are or are not authentically Americans with legitimate rights and interests.
Or are they, in the Scramble for America, merely Not Who We Are and on The Wrong Side of History ?
* Yglesias is an interesting example of the ongoing Flight From White. A decade ago, he explained that he identified as an Ashkenazi American, having three Jewish grandparents. But he underwent a Racial Awakening while filling out his 2010 Census and declared himself Hispanic:
After all, his Florida-born Conquistador-American grandfather Jose Yglesias had been the film critic for the Communist Party USA’s Daily Worker and then a Merck executive, so you can’t get much more oppressed than that.
