Then and Now: majority is now minority

History holds quite a list of unsolved problems and questions that have been left unanswered till this day. One shocking event, that owes much of it's panic to America's history of shaky decision making, is the majority births in the U.S. no longer being white. According to the New York Times, the Census Bureau has confirmed that the minority births (including Hispanics, Asians, blacks, etc) have outnumbered the amount of white births. This of course leads to a spur of questions. Will the older community, which mostly consists of whites, refuse to pay for the education of a different youth? Will the issue of population in schools grow to economic meltdown? Can we rely on this new youth on becoming politically active in their communities? These questions come to the table as we slowly come in contact with the larger problem of educating the minority youth. We see this now and we've seen it before. Go back to the 1960's Black Power Movement where the fight for equality among black and white was more than just being able to sit in the same seat, drink from the same water fountain or simply be in the same public park. Dr. Martin Luther King has brought up this issue in his book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community. "The Negro was only 60 percent of a person(King 6)." To further elaborate on the burden carried by the black community of the 60's,  King stated that twice as many black men went to war compared to white. Those statistics are the same in death rates as well but one problem that has entailed the country from then till now is education. King goes on to explain the gaps in education between a black elementary school and a white elementary school. Black schools were behind white schools by three years and only a mere 5% of African american students went on to colleges. That is 1 black student in every 20 white students. This has been the act of superiority at it's peak and it's sad to say that we still see it supported in our older white community. Till this day, minority graduation rates are spotty. Why hasn't this problem been addressed sooner? Will this remain a plague from the past pride and oppression?