The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States will be viewed by many as accomplishing racial diversity’s last frontier. The politics of diversity carries a heavy stigma, particularly in the post-affirmative action era. Like the post civil rights era (1980 to the present), the post affirmative action era (1989 to the present) has been framed as an obsolete endeavor in America’s “colorblind” social construct. Colorblindness - the notion that race was no longer relevant and race policies (best faith efforts, set-asides and “quota” policies) were no longer needed as America had become the great melting pot it was designed to be.

Profound crisis - Opportunity - or both?

According to Wiktionary, sabotage reads as follows: A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction. To stomp out the things that cause us discomfort is to take on the role of saboteur. We are in a constant struggle between problem and promise.

The United States stands out among wealthy countries in not guaranteeing health insurance to its citizens.

    Yet, even though many people cannot get access to care, we still pay more than twice as much per person as the average in other wealthy countries. And we have the worst outcomes. Only a severely over-medicated politician would claim we have the best health care system in the world.

Black America Today provides a fresh look at more than 30 million African-Americans -

based on the most detailed snapshot ever of African American life.  Finding strong group identity around culture and traditions, the study sheds light on and shatters myths about who we are as a community.   The study provides the most detailed snap shot of African American life in the United States today, and finds strong group identity across age and income brackets. It also discloses a comprehensive and nuanced look at how African Americans feel about many aspects of life in America, and cautions against a simplistic reading of Black America as a monolithic group.