New Day Rising: Cisneros on the Last 30 Years
At the Tribune's New Day Rising symposium on Feb. 28, Henry Cisneros, the first Hispanic mayor of a major American city, reflected on three decades of demographic change.
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psymetric
It's so good to see the impressive Henry Cisneros in action again. He talked about the pressures that were building in San Antonio thirty years ago when power and income were concentrated in the Anglo population. The whole country is in that state with large segments of the population being left behind as a results of the shift of income and wealth to the wealthy over the last fourty years. If you haven't read about this massive redistribution of wealth in favor of the wealthy, I invite you to take a look at "Uncle Sam and Gini" on this blog:
http://cancercouple.blogspot.com/p/uncle-sam-and-gini.html
Vicente Lozano
As Texas becomes a majority minority state, this is one way that racial anxiety surfaces:
http://guanabee.com/2011/03/d-magazine-hire-a-day-laborer/
Saddle up, it's going to be an interesting ten years.
Thank you, Texas Tribune, for your substantive coverage.