White Supremacy?

Although I wish that this country was not a white supremistic country statistics beg to differ. Unfortunately, America is still a "white supremacy" country, at least where it counts. There are many ways to measure this issue; one way would be via the population, this would allow us to gauge an accurate reading as to whether or not we are still a white supremest country. But the only way to officially gage whether or not this country is, is to see the what the nationalities are of the people who hold a place of power in our country. Yes the saying goes that even one person can make a difference but on a realistic level it is the people we have voted to represent ourselves that have the true power. The fist body of power that we can look at is Congress, not only is there a difference in race but of sex. In the Senate there are 18 women and 82 men; within the House there are 78 women and 357 men. As for the race aspect, just with in Congress,

Racial Composition of the 110th Congress
	U.S. House	U.S. Senate
White	332	81
Black	42	1
Jewish	30	14
Hispanic	25	2
Asian	5	2
Native American	1

In one of the most important and powerful bodies of people in the United States the statistics unfortunately do not lie. Now if we move into state governors, for sex the difference is 4 women to 46 men (just the US 50 states not including territories or DC). As for race again the list of governors is predominantly white. Does this mean that the entire population who has voted is either consciously or unconsciously voting for a "white supremacy" country? Why not, if these statistics are showing so then it must be, right? As much as I strived to find statistics that would bust the doors open on this issue and prove that this nation is not a white supremacist country it seems that we are still. What I believe though is that as time has progressed and we have moved farther and farther away from slavery that even though in our government there is a high percentage of "whites" that it is mattering less and less. I believe and hope that race or nationality are becoming less and less important and what is becoming important are the issues being discussed.

Sources:

http://www.thisnation.com/congress-facts.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_governors