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DO DEMOCRACIES NEED MINORITIES?

Brian Meadows
3 min readNov 11, 2020

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Do democracies need minorities?
I suggest strongly that they do. Why? We’ve only to look at one very grim statistic from the election just past to know why. An alarmingly ‘healthy’ majority of my ‘fellow’ (shudder!) palefaces voted to say that children in cages, babies being ripped from their mamas’ very breasts, unarmed people of color being mowed down by uniformed thugs with only different uniforms from the SS and Gestapo, God only knows (I confess to not wanting to know) what other enormities crying out to God for vengeance, right along with inequality of wealth and income which have us lurching toward a downright feudal economy — were quite all right with them and that they wanted more of them!!
This past election saved our democracy from being extinguished, no thanks whatsoever to the majority of my ‘fellow’ palefaces! And the minority of palefaces to which I belong could never have saved our democracy alone. We could only do this together with our fellow citizens of color: African-Americans, Latinos, Asians of every national origin from Israel (yes, including Ashkenazim) to Korea and our Native brethren as well. If that doesn’t convince you that democracies need minorities in order to stay democracies, I don’t know what will.
Our homegrown fascists profess that being multi-racial and multi-ethnic are drawbacks and weaknesses for nations. I say no, it is the other way around. To be multi-racial, -ethnic and -religious as well are strengths, not weaknesses!
Let me ask any French, Dutch, German, Italian or Spaniard within their political mainstreams: with minorities, is it less…

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Brian Meadows
Brian Meadows

Written by Brian Meadows

An angry straight white Anglo-Saxon angry at most of his 'own kind'.

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