FROM THE ALL PEOPLE’S BREAKFAST… Information that is encouraging…

In the four decades since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s death, the percentage of people of color in the American population has tripled.  America has a new political reality.  In 1968 when I was a young teacher, America had approximately 25 million people of color, or 12 percent of the U.S. population.  By 2008, the year Barack Obama was elected President, 36 percent of the population (104 million people)  were “people of color.”  The  Voting Rights Act of 1965 began the change in the American voting public. We are the Potpourri nation some of us have wanted for a long time.  Now that we have what we wanted, it’s not so simple.  We’ve come to the realization that prejudices and bigotry are still strong in America, and especially in an election year, some people are using bigotry to attract followers…  Ah, well… at least we are a nation of different people, and each group is getting recognition and attention and… young people, more in all ethnic groups, are our hope for the future.