Myths and Falsehoods Surrounding Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination

Thank you as usual Karen, for clarifying this so nicely. 

The United States Census Bureau changed the date for all groups known as minorities, that is all groups indentifying as non-White/Caucasian minorities, with Latino/Hispanics the largest growing group within America, outnumbering those considering themselves as White/Caucasian Americans from occurring in the year 2042 instead of 2050, eight years earlier than projected.

The America.gov link above is dated August 15, 2008.

For decades, members of the Conservative Right, like Pat Buchanan, in America in 2050: Another Country, have lamented the reality of this occurrence, with an obvious dread at the prospect.

From Mr. Buchanan's article:

Moreover, as multiculturalism has captured our schools and colleges, immigrant children will have prejudices and grievances against America and the West reinforced as they learn. The academic elite that controls these schools already paints America as a nation with a rancid history of genocide, slavery, racism, oppression and imperialism.

As immigrant children grow up, who will teach them to love and cherish America? Will they not come to exhibit that same sullen hostility to our country we see erupting at soccer games with Mexico today? There, Mexican fans, whether in the Los Angeles Coliseum or in Guadalajara, curse our players, shout down our national anthem and chant “Osama! Osama!” when the Mexican team scores.

Regarding the myth of reverse racism, perceived racism against White males, from Tim Wise :

Simply put, what separates white racism from any other form, and what makes anti-black, anti-brown, anti-yellow, or anti-red humor more biting and more dangerous than its anti-white equivalent is the ability of the former to become lodged in the minds of and perceptions of the citizenry.

White perceptions are what end up counting in a white-dominated society. If whites say Indians are savages (be they of the “noble” or vicious type), then by God, they’ll be seen as savages. If Indians say whites are mayonnaise-eating Amway salespeople, who the hell is going to care? If anything, whites will simply turn it into a marketing opportunity. When you have the power, you can afford to be self-deprecating, after all.

As Miz Sheria wrote :

“ .... I've concluded that I am bone-weary of the proliferation of voices in white America who continue to scream about reverse racism or black racism. It is such an insult to the real racism endured by black Americans.
 
When young black men gather on a summer's night, kidnap a young white man, tie him to a truck, and drag him down the highway until he is nothing but a bloodied mass of bone and flesh, speak to me of black racism. When grown black men plant a bomb in a church and murder young white children in their Sunday best, speak to me of black racism. When a crowd of black mothers gather in Boston to hurl obscenities, racial epithets, and bricks at school buses filled with little white children, speak to me of black racism.
 
When white bodies dangle from tree limbs and black families, children included, mill about below, smiling as if they have just witnessed some form of pleasant entertainment, speak to me of black racism. When black entrepreneurs, realizing that there is money to be made, make and sell postcards memorializing these lynchings, speak to me of black racism.
 
When grown black men kidnap, torture, and murder a 14-year-old white boy because he allegedly showed too much familiarity towards a black woman, speak to me of black racism. When black men--business leaders, legislators, governors, law enforcement, and state militias--gather together and march into white communities, burning, looting, and murdering to intimidate white people from trying to exercise their rights newly granted under the federal Constitution, successfully taking away the most fundamental right of a free people, the right to vote, speak to me of black racism.
 
When white soldiers who return from defending their country find themselves being told that they must sit at the back of the bus, speak to me of black racism. When white people have to enter business establishments through the back door, or are barred from entry by signs reading, "No Whites Allowed," speak to me of black racism. But until these things come to pass, don't insult me or my people by calling us racists. (BTW, all of the examples that I reference are real and occurred long after the official end of slavery) an insult to the real racism endured by black Americans.”

As the power structure in place remains an instrument that has been shaped to aid the decendants of the original creators of the U.S. and as long as their descendants utilize that structure to wield power, as has been done in the present and the past, even when it has been called upon to attempt to correct the defects built into this nation during the birth of this republic, there will never exist what is being called reverse racism, a term which in and of itself is silly and linguistically strained, with the term, implying the opposite of racism, which should mean no racism at all.

Reverse racism doesn't exist no matter how much racists wrap themselves in a cloak of denial.