called things by their proper names The U.S. presidential election has already produced a sensation: the Democratic Party is choosing between a woman (Hillary Clinton) and a Black man, Barack Obama ... It was only in the 1950s and 1960s that shifts began, initially seen as a breakdown of certain “foundations”: Jews gained a larger role in the media and business, the Black minority under Martin Luther King demanded equal rights, and the Irishman John F. Kennedy became president of the United States—the first and, so far, only Catholic to hold that office. At the time, it seemed that minorities were simply fighting for their rights, and that once they achieved equality with the country’s majority population, the process would be over. But that was not the case. One minority was followed by another, which also demanded equal rights. It seemed there would be no end to it. More and more new ethnic communities were taking shape across the United States. In the 1990s, the role of immigrants from Latin America rose sharply, led above all by people from Mexico. By the 2000s, the Cuban community had gained significant influence in Florida, a key state in presidential elections. Latinos began displacing Black people from their traditional social niches. Even the makeup of youth gangs in Los Angeles, the capital of America’s ethnic minorities (their numbers already exceed those of the white population), changed. Now Latino gang members are increasingly “pushing around” Black people—a picture that would have been unthinkable just a few years earlier. An interesting article: http://www.rosbalt.ru/2008/02/27/459928.html