So Blonde Lives Don't Matter?
Blue eyes really are vanishing in America, because of immigration policy
Internet superstar Sarah Stock is being denounced for her daring Blonde Lives Matter: Hot Blondes are Being Persecuted and Erased.
And White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt recently Xed a pic [above] wearing a shirt “Make America Blonde Again." The comments called her a 'Nazi' and 'White supremacist.'
This is nothing new to me. In my 1995 immigration book ALIEN NATION, there's just one (1) reference to my then-baby son's blue eyes and blond hair, in the entirely reasonable context of the possible impact on him of Affirmative Action quotas combined with the importation of quota-eligible minorities.
(And, 30 years later, it HAS impacted him).
To my surprise, mentioning my son’s blue eyes and blond hair was the most-cited sin in my (very numerous) hostile reviews.
In fact, I think I’ll provide a link to them here in my 1996 discussion of the hysterical reaction: Unexpurgated Afterword to the Harper Collins Paperback Edition of Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster
To put this in context:: GROK says, remarkably, that
Early 20th Century (around 1900): Approximately 50% of Americans had blue eyes, with some estimates suggesting 57.4% among those born between 1899 and 1905. This was largely because marriage within ethnic groups (e.g., English, Irish, Northern European) was common, and blue eyes, a recessive trait, were frequently passed down.
But
Late 20th to Early 21st Century (2000s): By 2006, only about 16.6% of the total U.S. population had blue eyes, with 22.3% among white Americans. This aligns with estimates that one in six Americans had blue eyes, reflecting further demographic changes, as the nonwhite population grew to about 35% by the 2000s.
Great Replacement, anyone?
So Stock and Leavitt struck a nerve, the same nerve I apparently struck with ALIEN NATION. And it struck a nerve for a reason.
FWIW my daughters with Lydia, all born long after the Alien Nation controversy, are blonde, brunette, red-headed.
Diversity is strength!
They are here celebrating their British-American (and Christian) heritage. (Is that still allowed?)
Lydia has golden-brown eyes and was blonde as a child, as was I.
It’s too bad that this upsets people.
My wife and I have five blonde hair and blue eyed children. Doing our part!
"GROK says, remarkably, that
Early 20th Century (around 1900): Approximately 50% of Americans had blue eyes, with some estimates suggesting 57.4% among those born between 1899 and 1905.
This was largely because marriage within ethnic groups (e.g., English, Irish, Northern European) was common, and blue eyes, a recessive trait, were frequently passed down.
But
Late 20th to Early 21st Century (2000s): By 2006, only about 16.6% of the total U.S. population had blue eyes, with 22.3% among white Americans.
This aligns with estimates that one in six Americans had blue eyes, reflecting further demographic changes, as the nonwhite population grew to about 35% by the 2000s."
Maybe the government should declare blue-eyed people an endangered species, protect their habit and remove invasive species.