Wedge Politics and Those Who Think They are “White”
Trump and his racist allies are worried that the so-called “Whites” will become a minority in the U.S. in the next 30 years or so. This is what they said! So, if your last name sounds Hispanic, or your skin is Brown, get ready, you might be detained. Mexican Americans, Mexican Nationals, Hondurans, Costa Ricans, Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans, and other “Hispanics” who are American citizens, or otherwise, who thought they could be “White” in America have been mistaken for a long time. Guess What? They are looking at your last name and your skin tone and ICE is arresting you because they want this to be a “WHITE ONLY” country.
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This is called the Great Replacement Theory, also known as White Replacement Theory, and according to ECBCO it is, “An ethno-nationalist concept suggesting that Western nations with predominantly White populations are experiencing a deliberate demographic shift due to immigration and multiculturalism, resulting in the ‘replacement’ of their original populations with people of color. This theory, which has roots in earlier racist ideologies, gained prominence in the early 21st century largely through the writings of French author Renaud Camus, who articulated his concerns about demographic changes in Europe in his 2012 book ‘Le Grand Replacement.’ The theory has found a following among White nationalists, alt-right supporters, and some conservative political figures in North America and Europe.”’
Bomb Threats, Phone Threats, Physical Violence
This theory has caused violence in this country with bomb threats, phone threats, physical violence by the so-called ICE units and other acts of intimidation. However, Americans don’t scare easily as Trump has miscalculated. For years the idea of using “Wedge Groups’ has often been used to split populations. The Spaniards used Mexicans in New Mexico as a wedge between the Spanish and the Pueblo Native People in the 1800s and in Texas Mexican Americans were used as a wedge group against Black people by allowing Mexicans to think they were “White.” They are often being described as “off White.” “White” was put on birth certificates in San Antonio in the 1940s and beyond. Ironically, Spaniards are not “White” as some of them believe, but millions are mixed with African Moorish ancestry that they have tried their best to erase or ignore.
Wedge Politics: ’Divide and Conquer’
In the United States, crooked politicians have used ‘wedge” issues like immigration and “race,” as methods to divide people. Scottish settlers were used by the English as a buffer against the Irish. Over time, these groups were kept apart, with Protestant settlers receiving more privileges than Catholic Irish. Divide and conquer works in more ways than one. You can divide people internally, like dividing lighter skinned Blacks from darker ones and Mexicans were done the same way. Externally you can divide one ethnic group from another using wedge politics; that is by giving one group more freedoms that the other. In this way, Mexican Americans were labeled “White,” but ICE arrests are taking that myth away from them. Mexican Americans that support Trump are the victims of propaganda so much so that they hate their own DNA relatives from across the border.
English colonists in the 1600s used wedge politics to divide one Native American tribe from another. This was done with the Cherokee and the Creek internally to divide those Creeks and Cherokee that believed in slavery from those that did not. Sam Houston and Andrew Jack were experts at using this racist tactic against Indigenous People. The racist wedge is at work today and those coming to America thinking they are “White” are in for a racist surprise.
