US minorities gaining more political clout due to demographic shift: Analyst
The changing demographics in America in the past several decades has provided minorities in the US with more political influence, underscored by the recent election of four women of color to Congress, says an African American journalist in Detroit.
The white racist politicians that dominate the current US government are imperiled by the fact that non-European Americans are gaining more political clout in the United States, said Abayomi Azikiwe, editor at the Pan-African News Wire.
“The demographics shifts that are taking place in the United States mean that by the middle of the century, people of color, non-white people, will be a combined majority in the United States,” Azikiwe said in a phone interview with Press TV on Tuesday.
US Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib, one of the four minority lawmakers targeted in President Donald Trump’s recent racist tweets, has vowed to hold her ground and fight the Republican president until he is impeached.
"I'm not going nowhere, not until I impeach this President," Tlaib said at the NAACP annual convention in Detroit on Monday.
The Michigan lawmaker made the remarks against the backdrop of nationwide outrage over Trump’s continued attacks on "The Squad" – which besides Tlaib also includes Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.
The president posted a series of racist tweets a week ago, calling on the four lawmakers, who are some of her most fierce critics, to "go back" to the "totally broken and crime infested places from which they came" and fix them before criticizing the way America is governed.
This is while Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib and Pressley are natural-born US citizens, and only Omar was born in Somalia and immigrated to the US as a teenager.
German conservative politician Ruprecht Polenz said Germany would have to take Trump back if such comments were serious. Trump’s paternal grandparents were born in Germany and emigrated to the US in the late 19th century. Trump’s mother immigrated to the US from Scotland in 1930.
Trump’s comments about the four minority Congresswomen have also been condemned by the leaders of European allies, including former British Prime Minister Theresa May and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The CEO of German industrial giant Siemens said Saturday that the Republican president has become the “face of racism.”
"I find it depressing that the most important political office in the world is turning into the face of racism and exclusion," Joe Kaeser said on Twitter.
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