The Democratic National Convention had a multitude of races there. It was America in a nutshell & it made me proud to be a Democrat. I hope that the when the Obama administration is finally assembled, it will resemble that convention.There should be whites,blacks,american indians,all asians & latinos,etc... My vision may be a bit too grandiose. But, it would be fitting for a black president to have a multicultural administration. There are many more folks out there who voted for change that we could believe in. Here's an excerpt from New America Media:
"For many political activists and advocates, a new administration naturally offers the opportunity to recruit and promote diverse leadership. And this time, with a candidate whose election was sealed with the sizeable support of Latinos, the idea of diversity seems not only attainable. It seems appropriate.
One organized effort is the Talent Bank Project at the Earl Warren Institute for Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. It was funded by a grant from PowerPac, a Bay Area nonprofit, and is being run by former Clinton Administration official Maria Echaveste, a fellow at the Warren Institute.
"We thought it would be important regardless of which administration came in to have a talent book, in a sense, of people of color that could go into a new administration," said Maria Blanco, executive director of the Institute. "We weren't so much thinking about top cabinet positions. There are a lot from that level down that are very important, that matter. But because of the nature of DC, it's an insiders hiring world, which tends to exclude people of color because they aren't in those circles."(END OF EXCERPT) Read the entire article here:
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=931bc18d8c825b753d6d59c5195d561d&from=rss
