We have a very serious racial issue: Why are Whites allowed to over-populate their race, by approx. 200 million out of approx. 305 million in the USA?

Will activists survive? I think the issue is that activists ARE the paradigm shift. The dynamic of the entire "Facing Race" conference was so radically different from anything I've experienced before, that it is hard to define. The sense of collectivity, focus, willingness to share differences as well as agreements, acceptance that what happens in Asia or Africa matters as much in Boston and San Francisco - all of that is new at least on this scale. Facing Race seemed to get people out of their comfort zones, their micro-focus, to engage on issues and with people who were new - that's powerful. Yes, the election empowered us in new ways with new energies, but something more than that happened. For the first time, it seemed that we were honestly breaking new ground with a sense that it was not risky, not fraught with futility, but the most logical thing in the world to do. That's a powerful alternative to several hundred years of an activism undertaken with the persistent fear that really, nothing will change. Now the Compact just seems logical and inevitable. Not without work, to be sure, but a logical set of goals to which we can logically proceed. Together. That is a profound paradigm change, in and of itself. Amazing.