Viewpoint: Bad News for Blacks

Before Columbus, an organization devoted to the promotion and distribution of multicultural literature, has an office in the Ginn House, one of 16 renovated buildings in Oakland's showcase Preservation Park. From there, I can at times envision the grand design of a multicultural nation with its capital in Oakland, America's most integrated and multicultural city, where, in some districts, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans and European Americans live side by side. But at other times I wonder whether in 20 years, blacks, finding themselves faced with soaring yellow and brown racism, might miss the uncomplicated old days when the only...

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