Estimates show that more than twelve million illegal/undocumented immigrants from Mexico live in the United States. At the same time, the 2010 Census confirmed that Hispanic Americans are the largest and fastest growing minority population in the United States, not including the twelve million undocumented Mexican immigrants.
Dear Sticky Wicket,
During March whether you are a college basketball fan or not, you can hardly escape all the publicity and activity around “March Madness.” Why is it perfectly acceptable to recruit athletically talented black basketball players to wow students, fans, and alumni, yet many of those same schools fail to recruit academically talented black students to fill their classrooms?
~Irritated in Michigan
Dear Irritated,
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“It is easy to overlook change when it happens ….” (Ifill 2009) p. 14. With this phrase, Gwen Ifill sets the theme for her analysis of what is happening with black political leadership. It is a tale of what she calls “sandpaper politics.” The phrase is meant to connote the friction which occurs in the shift of power from an older generation of black political leaders to an emerging one and the resistance of some in white society to any black political advance. All of this is crosscut by gender conflicts. It is also a reminder of the importance of keeping up with contemporary history.
