The end of the 'white' majority

Here's the non-news:

Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on Thursday, while minorities — including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of mixed race — reached 50.4 percent, representing a majority for the first time in the country’s history. 

One of the more anecdotal passages in Hitchens' excellent book Letters to a Young Contrarian describes a yearly row with the government officials (I can't quite recall the exact details) who conduct the U.S. census. On the line regarding 'Race', Hitchens insisted upon putting, simply, 'human'. Indeed, I think we really ought to redefine racism. We ought not to think of it as the belief that there is some hierarchal superiority of one over another, but instead that there is any meaningful distinction between human beings in that way at all. This is particularly pertinent, I think, to my own country of New Zealand, a nation in which a seemingly endless discussion of racial identity and race relations, in spite of honorable intentions, has done untold harm.