The Crisis, July 1st, 2006
Three years ago when the U.S. Census Bureau released its findings of 2002 population estimates, the figures showed that for the first time the Hispanie population (an ethnic classification that includes some people who identify racially as Black) outnumbered the Black population in the United States.
At the time, speculation abounded in the press as to what this development would portend. Would the political power African Americans had accumulated since the civil rights era be eroded? Would the news foment tension between the Hispanic and Black communities?
"At the street level, there has tr...
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