Why We Must Rethink Everything

I am one of the featured speakers this year during Coastal Carolina University's Celebration of Inquiry. My session will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday, Feb. 18) in Wall Auditorium. Here's the description:

``The Difficulty of Dealing with Race in a Diversifying World: Why We Must Rethink Everything We Think We Know.’’

In 1776 America, power resided almost exclusively in the hands of property-owning white men. By 2042, the nation they founded might be majority-minority. That radical change must be met with a radically-new way of thinking about race and power in a country that has seen a bi-racial man elected president and a woman of Asian descent become one of the leading 2010 gubernatorial candidates in South Carolina, a state where the Civil War began.

Our changing demographic reality is one of the primary challenges of our time. How we meet that challenge will mean a stronger country, or a weaker one.