U.S. minorities on pace to be majority in months, not decades

[LittleBlue]

29. Exactly

Without socio-economic mobility, we'll stagnate and sink back to the Middle Ages.

As for South Africa, I read this last year:

For the majority of black people who have lived under colonial rule for the best part of almost 400 years, five decades of which were under the guise of institutionalised racism, or apartheid, white privilege is still the barbed wire fence they must scale. Today, South Africa has the world's highest level of income inequality. And it is the black majority that still teeters precariously, at the bottom end of the scale. Ten per cent of the population controls 80% of the land.

The farce of South Africa's "miracle transition" is fast unravelling. The ANC is no longer the vanguard of the revolution; the beloved party has been caught on the frontline of the protection of white interests. And yes, despite the cold, hard facts of socioeconomic inequality, South Africa is subject to conflicting narratives. A non-racial South Africa simply cannot exist if 9% of one racial group earn six times more than the majority.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/21/south-africa-white-privilege-afrikaner

Interesting stats when you consider that the political system in SA is almost wholly controlled by the black majority, who constitute 80% of the nation.

It makes me realize that even if the economically underprivileged controlled 95% of the House and Senate, the task of easing economic inequality would still be a huge, huge challenge.