Race in America

To me, the problems of race in America—heck, the world—will never go away despite our best efforts to eliminate them.  It's a depressing opinion, but true to the human condition.  Today, there are still articles being published regarding race, proving that the problem persists.  In "Noose Sparks More Protests at UC San Diego," the title explains the premise of what happened: some ignorant student hung a noose on a bookcase in the library, causing people to storm into the office of the UC San Diego Chancellor in protest.    In "Why many Americans prefer their Sundays segregated," the writer explains that despite efforts to integrate, churches nonetheless are mostly segregated.  Blacks that attend church said, "I need a place of refuge [...] I need to come to a place on Sunday morning where I don't experience racism."  Heck, there are even some convoluted white men that believe blacks were better off during slavery (article: "Blacks better off during Slavery?").  It is no surprise that racism still exists today.  My opinions and thoughts on racism haven't changed in the past few weeks.

One article that intrigued me was "Whites in U.S. Edge Toward Minority Status."  It is estimated that within forty years or so, the number of minorities will outnumber the number of whites in America (funny, because the article still addresses them as minorities when hypothetically in this case, they're majorities).  That prediction does not surprise me.  It already seems like Spanish is America's main language as opposed to English.  And at the rate that minorities are flowing into this country, it would only make sense to predict that.  But who knows?  Maybe America won't be around in forty years to see if that prediction comes true...