Thread by @Noahpinion

29% of Americans are either Hispanic, Asian, or Middle Eastern -- more than double the percentage of Black Americans and about half the percentage of White Americans who are neither Hispanic nor Middle Eastern.

This third of America constitutes a "third race" that does not fit cleanly into America's traditional racial schema. It would be a grave mistake to assume that these folks will eventually become White; instead, I am betting that America's racial schema will bend and change.

Our media and our national narratives tend to ignore this "third race", except in very circumscribed cases. If anything, the push is to disaggregate each of these groups into their constituent ethnicities, instead of aggregating them as a big group that will change America.

Many (not all) members of this "third race" share a family narrative of recent immigration, upward mobility, and a struggle against discrimination that, while it falls short of the structural racism facing Black Americans, is still very real.

noahpinion.substack.com/p/progressives…

Collectively, this "third race" holds the key to America's destiny this century. And yet our media, politicians and popular culture tend to ignore them, writing narratives of America that are more suited to the America of 1974.

Obviously I cannot speak for that group of people.

But I can call for the country to pay more attention to them, and stop making them a footnote in our national narratives.

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