Once upon a time, America was based on the idea of merit. Then the Democrats decided that everything should be based around their Klu Klux identity politics, but this time with more diversity.

American culture, public trust, racial harmony and hope for the future were nuked harder than Hiroshima.

Fast forward to today’s Compton where a black minority clings to power over a Latino majority while claiming that they have to keep the Latinos out because they’re the real victims.

Think of Apartheid South Africa with a black minority and a Latino majority.

Compton is no longer a Black city. Forty years ago, the city’s population was 74 percent Black; now it is nearly 70 percent Latino.

The city’s leadership still reflects its demographic past, with an all-Black city council and school board. It has never had a Latino mayor. Compton is part of a congressional district represented by a Latina lawmaker, but its first and sole Latino council member was ousted last year after being accused of election fraud.

The Democrat political bloc vote machine is working really well. And if it were working like this with a white minority, there would be civil rights investigations and screams of systemic racism.

In 2021, during the city’s last mayoral election, Latinos made up an estimated 38 percent of votes cast despite being 50 percent of registered voters, according to a Washington Post analysis of voter registration data from the political data firm L2. Black residents accounted for roughly 45 percent of votes cast, while making up only 32 percent of registered voters.

Shall we speculate how many ballot harvesters operate and which community groups they belong to?

The entrenched Black leadership has also done little to engage with the Hispanic community, Latino activists say, while clashing over the need for Spanish-speaking government workers. That has resulted in a lack of murals and monuments dedicated to Latino heroes, they say.

But Kendrick Lamar did join a Compton protest over the drug overdose death of home invasion robber George Floyd, so what are Latinos complaining about?

“It’s a very pro-black environment right now in the administration within Compton,” Diaz said. “It’s just constant events and movements that are pro-black and not necessarily for all in Compton.”

Or all of America. But DEI is the new KKK.

Compton began voting in Black leaders, including its first Black mayor, in the 1960s after the Civil Rights movement and the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

And then history was frozen in time.

In a statement, the city’s mayor, Emma Sharif, who is black, said she is proud of Compton’s history “as one of the first and only cities in the region to have as much black representation as we have had.” Being voted into public office “while black Americans fought racial segregation and discrimination — that has a special significance for me,” she added.

And no significance for the Latino majority which wasn’t here at the time and isn’t invested in the civil rights mythos that liberals guzzle like a bum downing night train.

Some black residents say they fought too hard for political power to relinquish it just yet — and that Compton’s black leaders are still battling racism from other racial groups.

Which groups?

“It’s like Game of Thrones. We have to keep this power, we have to keep the little bit that we have, which is all we have,” said Nina Childs, a black local activist and filmmaker. “And we’re not giving it up.”

Said, every warlord ever.

This is the glorious aftermath of the civil rights movement. Everyone clinging viciously to racial power while everyone else.

Utopia is almost here.

The “little bit of power” in Compton is unchallenged minority rule.

New York and Houston, two of the nation’s most populous and diverse cities, haven’t had a Latino mayor in more than 100 years. Neither has Chicago, the nation’s third largest city, whose black and Latino populations are nearly on par.

What the Washington Post can’t and won’t say is that it’s because Democrats and their nonprofit donor base fund Latino electoral activism primarily in more Republican areas that they want to flip. Like Texas. That’s why California has a sizable Latino activist base at all. Other places that have it tend to date back to the 70s when Dems invested money into using Latinos to counter working-class whites.

But the Dems aren’t going to invest money in helping Latinos topple black majorities.

There’s no “democracy” here, especially in California where ballot harvesters lubricate a corrupt rigged electoral system. Those who have the infrastructure and the cash win.

Are there opportunities for Republicans here to flip cities and states? Yes, but they’d have to get serious about it.

The Los Angeles council’s controversy did a disservice to Latinos seeking better representation across the country, said Adriana Orozco, a Compton community advocate. Conducting conversations about increasing Latino representation with her black counterparts without appearing anti-black is already challenging, said Orozco.

I bet.

“Give us some political power?” “Racist!”

Although about 65 percent of residents speak a language other than English at home, some government documents are still not translated into Spanish, local events rarely incorporate Latino cultural touchstones — such as mariachi troupes or papel picado — and Latinos are not represented enough in the artwork across the city, local Hispanic advocates say.

But there’s George Floyd murals and I’m sure that “Black Lives Matter” gets occasionally translated into Spanish.

In 2021, Cristian Reynaga became the first Latino mayoral candidate to run in the general election.
The race quickly got ugly.

Reynaga, who was born and raised in Compton, said he faced anti-Latino discrimination during the campaign.

“His concern will be for Hispanics just like other Mexican mayors,” read one text sent to a member of Reynaga’s campaign staff, which was reviewed by The Post. “Next thing he will be having kids from the border in Compton.”

Identity politics is a truly beautiful thing. Diversity is our strength and brings us together.

It’s important to keep black people in charge, said Jasmine Gates, 27, founder of the New Black History Makers in Compton, who supported Reynaga’s opponent, Sharif.

“Once we hand that power over to a Hispanic, or non-black person, it’s going to be hard to get that back,” Gates said, sitting alongside Childs, the local activist and filmmaker, inside the Yetunde Price Resource Center, a meeting space funded by the famed Williams sisters and named after their sibling, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Compton.

There we are. The naked truth about the identity politics utopia.

Latinos should have representation in leadership, she said “but as a black woman I have to advocate for the representation of the people that look like me.”

And what else is there, except electing people who look like you, share your skin color, and keeping down those who don’t?

Segregation, yesterday, segregation today, segregation tomorrow.