Bill Clinton Urges Americans To Be Mindful Of The Country's Growing Diversity »
Posted By TimALoftis 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that Americans should be mindful of the nation's changing demographics, which led to the election of Barack Obama as president.
He told an Arab-American audience of 1,000 people that the U.S. is no longer just a black-white country, nor a country that is dominated by Christians and a powerful Jewish minority, given the growing numbers of Muslims, Hindus and other religious groups here.
Clinton said by 2050 the U.S. will no longer have a majority of people with European heritage and that in an interdependent world "this is a very positive thing."
Speaking in a hotel ballroom to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee during its annual convention, Clinton also praised Obama's speech in Cairo, Egypt, that was focused on the Arab world.
Clinton told the audience that it's important that they push government leaders for a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He cited an experience in 1993 when he failed to persuade many Jewish-American and Arab-American business people to invest in the Palestinian areas because violence and bombings had deterred them.
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pokydoke6 months, 2 weeks ago
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There was an article in Capitol Hill Blues today about normal seemingly rational people becoming very upset about the social changes that are happening today in the US and they are blaming Obama even though it's plainly not his fault. The white Anglo American is fast becoming a minority and this scares many people. Yesterday I went to our local farm stand to buy some vegetables for dinner. We live in a relatively rural community with a largely White population but I was surprised that when I went in to the store my wife and I plus the clerk were the only white people in there the rest were a large family of Indians.I have learned through experience that people are people regardless of ethnicity but I can well imagine the reaction of some of my more provincial neighbors.
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Hobe6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Poka Dot...
You are Sadly mistaken, it is Obamer's fault...
Obermer is a great speaker just like Hitler was, leading normal people into the Wrong Direction...
America never was and will never be a Socialist Country...
Time to Stop Obermer from socialist changes... -
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lloydm656 months, 2 weeks ago
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I'm not reaching for my guns,or anything else.When you come to our shores,and with one thing in mind to become an American citizen welcome,and god bless you,But if you come here to berate, be little my country,and or me and mine.If you love your country more than you love America you wouldn't be happy any how.I'm going to be as diverse as possible to a point that I must turn thumbs down on America.I will not be a leftist American basher.
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