White power rhetoric reframes whites as a threatened global demographic minority

Evidence

Lastly, there is the minoritization of whiteness within the rhetoric of white power activists. Here, whiteness is seen to be under threat, to have been superseded demographically on a global scale. This is exemplified in the white power band New Minority, whose recording “White, Straight and Proud” complains that white men have become a lesser part in “their” world. George Burdi, who signed this band to the Resistance Records label, reinforces this lament: “Look at the global population levels. Whites account for only 8 percent of the planet’s population. Only 2 percent of the babies born last year were white…It’s WHITE PEOPLE that are the ‘new’ minority” (quoted in Zickmund, 1997:198). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2581

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior notes on minoritarian identity discourse and the strategic adoption of victimhood claims by dominant groups. — connects to: Shrinking numerical majority makes White identity salient and politically mobilizing — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity: Why…, 68; Neoliberalism functions as a response to white status threat. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1764; White Zimbabwean authors write from a sustained Rhodesian supremacist mindset even after losing land — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 13 (+1 more)
• QUESTION: The claim that only 2 percent of babies born in a given year were white is numerically suspect — worth checking the actual demographic data on global births by race, which would likely be mush higher given Asia and Africa birth rates alone. How do white nationalists sustain a false statistic like this?