The Demise of the Ruling Class - White People

While helping my dad mow the lawn today, he, in faded shirt and jeans, approached me slowly and stiffly from under a shady tree.  I noticed him when the stepped into a brilliantly sunny spot under the tree, making him look very white in my peripheral vision.  For a moment I didn't recognize him - he just looked very old and very white.

He is very White: WASPish, wealthy and well educated. Age has turned his hair, what little there is of it, white, too. Sadly but inevitably, age has also diminished his power, strength, wealth, mobility and even his reasoning powers.  The next generation, of which I am a part, has not replicated his power, wealth, or knowledge. 

Today I heard the Census Bureau announcement that the majority of children born in the US last year were not white. My granddaughter, who was born last year, is half Asian. Even before she reaches adulthood, I think "White" will connote "old".