Don't call me a minority

Last week I received a letter that really irritated me. It was an invitation to attend the 2001 Republican Minority Conference in Florida. It was addressed “Dear Friend.” The letter started with the following 40-word-long sentence:

With the results of the 2000 census demonstrating an even more ethnically diverse population both across the nation and here in Florida, it’s important that the Republican Party continue its efforts for political empowerment, minority outreach and minority candidate preparations.

I know that the people who put together this conference are well meaning. But I’m not a minority; I’m an American. I am not a victim; I’m a victor.

Think about the meaning of the word minority. There is nothing positive about it. Minority shareholder, minority rights or minority party. All mean the same thing: You have no power. Well, I don’t accept that. So I refuse to allow anyone to call me a minority.

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I left the Democrat party because all they could see was my brown skin. They wanted to put me on their liberal plantation. They wanted to limit my involvement to civil rights, welfare and race. That deeply offended me.

I wanted to talk about ICBM throw weights, underseas mining, who owned the moon and a host of other intellectually stimulating issues. I was concerned about peace in the Middle East, international trade, abortion and the IRA. But when I told my Democrat friends about my frustration, they just didn’t get it. So I left their party and became a Republican.

Since then, I have enjoyed being part of a party that was more concerned about what was between my ears than the color of my skin. I have enjoyed participating in a party that was more interested in my intelligence than whether I needed sun tan lotion or not.

But now, it looks like the Jesse “I am a victim” Jackson disease has infected the Republican Party. And if they continue to insult those of us who want our character to be more important than our skin, they will lose us.

Some might say that I am being insensitive. After all, there are more “whites” than “blacks, yellows and browns” in America. So what! Each one of us was created by God as a unique individual. So there are no minorities or majorities. There are only people.

In fact, in a number of states, “whites” are now the “minority.” But the leftists are so intent on using the minority word that they call states like California “minority-majority” states. Huh?

The hard reality is that the use of the word minority has nothing to do with an ethnic group’s percentage of the American population. If it meant that, then Jews would be a minority because there are seven times as many Americans of African descent than there are Jews in the entire world. But Jews are not a minority because Jews are not viewed as oppressed, powerless victims.

If the word minority reflected a percentage of America’s population, then Americans of Japanese, Chinese, Indian and Vietnamese descent would be called minorities. But they are not, even though their numbers pale in comparison to the number of Latinos in the United States. The reason they are not called minorities is that members of these groups have higher incomes, education levels and more stable families than any other group of Americans, including “whites.”

No, the use of the term minority has nothing to do with numbers at all. It’s about a sick game the Democrats invented to make blacks and browns feel like victims who had to be protected by white liberals. For example, according to Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language (1989), one definition of the word minority is: “3. A group differing, esp. in race, religion, or ethnic background, from the majority of a population, esp. when the difference is obvious and causes or is likely to cause members to be treated unfairly.”

Think about it. Jesse Jackson’s victimology philosophy has become a definition of a word. How sick.

If you doubt my words, then read this from "The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage," 3rd edition, 1996:

A member of a committee or other body who has found little support for his or her views is said to be in the minority. But the most noticeable use of the word in the 20th century has been its application to any relatively small group of people differing from others in the society of which they are a part in race, religion, language, political persuasion, etc.

Such minorities have always existed, and have often been commented on in earlier times, but they have not always been thought to need constitutional or social, etc. ‘rights.‘ Ethnic minorities, be they blacks in a predominately white community, disabled people requiring easier access to buildings, single parents needing financial assistance, homosexuals seeking legislation against discrimination or any other group of disadvantaged people, have brought the word minority into unparalleled prominence.

So there you have it. Minority means groups of “disadvantaged” people: those who feel that they are victims of society. Well, as Jimmy Carter said, life is not fair. So all of us have to take the cards we are given and do the best we can.

If the Republican Party wants to expand its base, it should eliminate all of its “minority outreach” efforts immediately. Instead, it should go to every community where it has received a “minority” of the vote, and talk to the citizens about issues that are of importance to them.

What they will find are that crime, jobs and economic growth are much more important than playing the minority card. If they don’t stop their march toward Jesse Jackson land, I and millions of other Americans who don’t need much sun tan lotion will walk.

And we won’t come back. Because we will not tolerate any political party that will not see us first and last, as Americans.