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Town Hall Meeting
Once again,
Columbus comes
together to talk about race and race relations. Following a
series "Reflections On Race" done by Richard Hyatt, the
Cunningham
Center was the venue
for a town hall meeting where a cross section of the community
gathered to dialogue about issues of race. Congratulations to
Ben Holden and his staff for a job well done. Thursday's
Ledger-Enquirer reported on the event and published comments
from a cross section of the participants - some positive, some
cynical and some negative - placing blame on real estate
agents and the churches, for example.
What I liked about group to which I was
assigned was the "action" piece where each participant had to
put their name and telephone number on the little 3 x 5 card,
write down one or two actions that you commit to do in the
next 30 days, and pass the card to the person to your right.
Each person was to call the next month to see the status of
the commitments made. (You are also to call or email the
Ledger-Enquirer to indicate what happened). I passed my card
with my commitment to Barbara, on my right, who I know will
call me. I also got a card and plan to make a call in a month.
This will certainly be a challenge to see how
committed each of us is in following through from the town
hall meeting experience.
Wednesday, May 23: Race Relations Breakfast
Ben Holden, Editor of the Ledger-Enquirer will be the
presenter at the Race Relations Breakfast on Wednesday, May 23
beginning at 7:30 am at Ruth Ann's Restaurant.
He will address the recently published "Reflections On
Race" series and the Town Hall meeting held at the
Cunningham
Center on
Wednesday, May 16. Check our website at
www.onecolumbus.org
and click on "Race Relations Breakfasts" for times, dates, and
schedules for this and other One Columbus
events.
Contact: Lee Brantley 706-324-6471
Down The
Road
June 28:
Second Annual One
Columbus Golf
Tournament
We have put
all of the forms for participating in this special fund raiser
for One Columbus on our website:
www.onoecolumbus.org
Sponsorships, team and individual player registration, ads for
the Tournament booklet and the day's Itinerary are all there.
The Robert
Trent Jones Golf Course in
Opelika is probably one of the
top 10 courses in the
USA,
if not the best. See
www.rtjgolf.com
for more about the golf complex. Contact: D. J. Jones
706-681-1136
Here is part
of a recent press release from the US Census Bureau that
should be of interest.
Minority Population Tops 100 Million
The nation's
minority population reached 100.7 million, according to the
national and state estimates by race, Hispanic origin, sex and
age released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. A year ago, the
minority population totaled 98.3 million.
"About one in three
U.S.
residents is a minority," said Census Bureau Director Louis
Kincannon. "To put this into perspective, there are more
minorities in this country today than there were people in the
United States
in 1910. In fact, the minority population in the
U.S. is
larger than the total population of all but 11 countries."
The population in
1910 was 92.2 million. On Oct. 17, 2006, the Census Bureau
reported that the overall population had topped 300 million.
California
had a minority population of 20.7 million - 21 percent of the
nation's total.
Texas had a minority
population of 12.2 million - 12 percent of the
U.S.
total.
There were other
milestones reached as well during the July 1, 2005, to July 1,
2006, period: The nation's black population surpassed 40
million, while the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
group reached the 1 million mark.
Hispanic remained
the largest minority group, with 44.3 million on July 1, 2006
- 14.8 percent of the total population. Black was the
second-largest minority group, totaling 40.2 million in 2006.
They were followed by Asian (14.9 million), American Indian
and Alaska Native (4.5 million), and Native Hawaiian and Other
Pacific Islander (1 million). The population of non-Hispanic
whites who indicated no other race totaled 198.7 million in
2006.
With a 3.4 percent
increase between July 1, 2005, and July 1, 2006, Hispanic was
the fastest-growing minority group. Asian was the second
fastest-growing minority group, with a 3.2 percent population
increase during the 2005-2006 period. The population of
non-Hispanic whites who indicated no other race grew by 0.3
percent during the one-year period. (See Table 1
Excel
|
PDF.)
Four states and the
District of Columbia
are "majority-minority."
Hawaii led the nation with a
population that was 75 percent minority in 2006, followed by
the
District of Columbia (68
percent),
New Mexico (57 percent),
California (57 percent) and
Texas (52
percent). No other state had a minority population exceeding
42 percent of the total. (See Table 2
Excel
|
PDF.)
Black
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The black population
increased by 1.3 percent, or 522,000, between 2005 and 2006.
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New York had the largest
black population in 2006 (3.5 million), followed by
Florida (3 million) and
Texas (2.9
million).
Texas had the largest
numerical increase between 2005 and 2006 (135,000), with
Georgia
(101,000) and
Florida
(86,000) next. In the
District of Columbia, the
black population comprised the highest percentage (57
percent);
Mississippi (37 percent)
and
Louisiana (32
percent) were next.
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The black population
in 2006 was younger, with a median age of 30.1, compared
with the population as a whole at 36.4. About 31 percent of
the black population was younger than 18, compared with 25
percent of the total population.
You can
find other data by going to the Census Bureau website:
uscensus.gov
