It's difficult to compare cabinet members of the various administrations when making a judgment based on three separate characteristics: race, sex, and religion. Arriving at a conclusion that there has been discrimination is just about impossible, particularly when relative qualifications are considered.
What percentage of the U.S. population are people who are "white," who are male, and who adhere to the Christian faith?
43% identify as White Christian.
According to my rudimentary calculations, 8% of Biden's Cabinet are white Christian.
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Yeah the left needs to get that closer to zero %.
Hart Cellar Act (aka The American Kalergi Plan)
The legislation was hardly "revolutionary," Johnson said. "It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives, or really add importantly to either our wealth or our power."
Testifying before Congress, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach had said: "This bill is not designed to increase or accelerate the numbers of newcomers permitted to come to America. Indeed, this measure provides for an increase of only a
small fraction in permissible immigration."
Sen. Edward Kennedy said, "
It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society.
While the settled Hispanic population continues to expand, Pew projects that Asians will overtake Hispanics in the 21st century as the largest immigrant group. (
"There is no danger whatsoever of an influx from the countries of Asia and Africa," said Rep. Emanuel Celler, the 1965 bill's House sponsor.)
Almost half of the U.S. population in the middle of this century will likely be immigrants or the descendants of immigrants who arrived after 1965, according to sociologist Christopher Jencks. (Brookings Institution demographer William Frey is less confident of that prediction, but agrees that it's "possible.")
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