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eat civil rights leader W.E.B. DuBois said that "the problem of
the 20th cencolor line." In so many ways, he was right.
falls to us to fashion for the next century the greatest mu
vVe must tw e ll nc .v ~ iR tke fa> e 1 1Fs.imuciftg e):wnge:
Within the next three years,right here in California, no single
race OJ; ethnic group will make up a majority of the state's
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lll.utpopulation."And a halfcentury from now, when your own
grandchildren are in college, it is entirely conceivable that a
majority of the population will be Latino, African American,
AsianAmerican, ~ t i v e American and other people of color. \ _ \
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wi h iniiff sreB:ee, we carmot t t l f t away from it, we e ~ ~
t retreat into mcial a B d etbnie enclaves2
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was killed and the streets exploded in flames. My m e m ~ r y is
forever singed by the pain and~ n g e r I saw.
~ I n the time and. place Where I grew up, the color line was
black and=wltite. hi ethereeffi:tRl:li}ities, t:he tmgets were
different, bttt the hatreds were the same.
We have tom down the barriers in our laws. Now we must tear down
the barriers in our~ ~ J ~ O \ . U - - ~ ~ t . . .
~ Even with more ofUS\Working together;.-\iving side-by-side,
and intermarrying-VDPf Mfo we know there is still more than one way
of looking at an event, at the world, atI
each other. We know ~ n look at the same reality and see two
different. . ~ d u . . t . c w . ~ \ w . ... hings; hear the same
remark and hear two different meanings, And we k n o w ~
s\ereotypes -- I
some of them ugly, some mild, but all destructive-- 9tftl keep
us apart.
Many whites believe that the problem of racism is over. They
honestly believe that theplaying field is equal and j>lacks have
the same oppq_rtunities as they do When in coljles, o. jobs, . ~ ~
~ ~ \ W I ( ' ~ ' ~ 1 \ . J . J > M U ) u ~ u U ) U ,and housing
and e d u c t i o n ~ But, - r e l i t y ~ differeni fo-
cks.we-r=-~ t o ~ v \ l l .W C:l.l... l}..t .tellthetralh. . . 1 \
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The truth is that more people than ever are benefitting from our
strong economy. Butthere is another truth that must be told.
African American and Latino workers still earn markedlyless than
what whites in the same jobs make. [In Los Angeles, unemployment
east of thehighway is x and west of the highway is x.] And for many
minority communities, there are still
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