end of racism in America ?
By Professor Orlando Patterson:
W.e.b Du Bois predicted that racial divide that plague America will be made obsolete by migratory social and biotechnological developments. The Strongest might be called California system, A hybrid population, mainly Eurasian-but with a growing Latin element-will come to dominate the middle and upper classes and will grow exponentially especially after Th ne 2020's. Lower-class Caucasian middle class racial Purists and most African-American under pressure from the endless stream of unskilled Mexican workers will move away. Those African-Americans who remain will be rapidly absorbed into the emerging mixed population. The California system will come to dominate the American and the Canadian Pacific Rim. The Second pattern is that Caribbean people will swarm the mainland by legal and illegal means. Florida will be the Metropolitan center of this system. Caribbean people will bring their distinctive concepts of race and color to America. One in which people marry lighter and "white" as they move up the social ladder. This system was different from the California one. The Economic situation for all classes of African Americans and Native born Latinos is likely to deteriorate-with the ending of affirmative action, a shrinking public sector and competition from skilled and unskilled (mainly Caribbean Basin) immigrant labor. The rise of Workfare without compensating provisions for child care, combined with the growing pattern of paternal abandonment of children, will further undermine traditional family norms among African-Americans, Latino and increasingly the European-American lower classes. Reversing the pattern that emerged after World War II. African-Americans, Latinos, and the poorest Caucasian will move into the inner and secondary rings of what are now mainly European-American middle-class suburbs. The middle classes will move to either gated communities for Central Cities, leaving a european-american underclass and other ethnic underclass more and more. For the first time in the nation's history Young poor and alienated Caucasians, African-Americans and Latinos will find Common Ground base or social resentment and a common lumpenproletarian Hip-Hop culture. Even as these young people periodically engaging in murderous racial gang fights, intermarriage and miscegenation will escalate as the young poor of all the races break away from present gender and racial taboos. Patterson is a professor of sociology at Harvard University and author of "Rituals of Blood": Consequences of slavery in Two American Centuries." This was written for The New Republic.