School students are minorities. perhaps for politicians looking to court the minority vote they can begin to address the needs of their future electorate. welcome back to the panel, randi wine guard ten, raul reyes and the public school ethnic makeup looks fascinatingly like the obama re-election coalition. you see a decline of white students in public schools. an increase of students of color over those years particularly african-american, hispanic, primarily south asian students. and you see east asian students. that growing brown population. when we talk about school reform and public school reform and wh disproportionately students of color. right. at the turn of the last century it was a different wave of immigration. at the turn of this century it s a different wave of immigration.
And that moment was from president obama s emotional speech to his campaign staff the day after he was re-elected. we re still here talking about president obama s passion for the process. joining our panel are raoul reyes and nancy gooils. raoul, when i saw the president choke up about that, he also had gotten emotional the day before the election talking about the fired up and ready to go, a volunteer who chose not to go to chicago, i m like, that s it. that s the process. he cares about his domestic accomplishments, but he got emotional about the idea that he has fired up a group of activists to be part of the process. people at that level in politics are under so much pressure to keep a certain amount of their personality in
Groups will only continue to grow until people of color in the united states are the majority. the demographics, demographics are not electoral destiny. which is more important, that there are more diverse citizens participating, that they have a more diverse array of candidates? all very complicated. joining me to answer those questions, steve, raoul, ray and nancy giles. i think that the news of the demise of the white man is vastly overstated. am i it s been a weird couple of days. it s been weird to watch white people report on this. i m not trying to you know when you just showed that graph of the decline of the numbers i thought, maybe that s why they re trying to eliminate all these abortions. they re trying to build up the race. maybe. there is always eugenics associated with it. how crazy. i ll tell you one thing in the
Because, for example, people having the right to marry whomever they want is a fantastic step in the right direction, but i submit having the civil rights of anybody on the ballot is a concern. at the table, we have wade harrison, raoul reyes and nancy giles, writer, social commentator and one of my favorite people. laura, blue grit looked like it was occurring. what was so fascinating was that book was written a few years ago. what we ve seen in the coverage of these ballot initiatives is as if they just dropped from the sky and people went out and vot voted. these are the result of long-time organizing initiatives. the civil rights initiative, the campaign against affirmative action. there s two ways to go on this. one is super exciting. progressives took the lead on issues that political leaders
0 president and those tears he shed. good morning. aim melissa harris-perry. you already know the big news of the week. on tuesday night barack obama was once again elected president of the united states. but this year s party in chicago had nothing on 2008. back then more than a quarter million people crowded into grant park. mother nature even seemed sure of the outcome offering up an unbelievably warm 60 degree chicago night and the place was crowded with more black vips than the ethnic music festival. this year was more modest. a single podium draped with a touch of bunting, a far more typical cold, gray november day greeted the just about 10,000 supporters who found their way into chicago s unremarkable mckorm make place convention center. there was hugging, dancing, but the tears were more from relieve than inspired awe. be careful because if you decode this election night on the optics alone, you will believe them to be more different than they really are. despite a two-year halt in legislative accomplishments brought on by a recalcitrant republican party, an anemic economy, and a bruising campaign that lacked the historical fervor of the first, president obama nonetheless won re-election with nearly every state he initially won four years ago. and while turnout was down nationally over the past election, it wasn t fultd by an obama enthusiasm decline. something else was remarkably similar, the man who was elected president, the rock solid steadiness of no drama obama is steer the direction and the discussion in a way that allowed people to see him as the president of all america. steve, i was thinking through this notion of the presidential process. i was thinking about the health care town halls. this republican marist emerged that he rammed through partisan legislation. i kept thinking that part of why it was part of a soft act and not single payer is because he was committed to process. is that the sort of thing we can expect in the second term as well? yes. the first test is going to be on the term everyone uses is fiscal cliff. call it the gradual fiscal slope. i like that. this is sort of a testament. republicans came out and said on taxes nothing has changed. the republican party position for the last two decades of no rate increase for anybody, especially the rich, period, under any circumstances stands. obama came out yesterday and said his bottom line on this is that the bush tax cuts for the top 2% have to go. let s see how these negotiations pay off. i think we ll get to the end of december with the republicans making the debt that they don t have to budge. they can blame obama if we go over this cliff. i m curious to see how that plays out. we re going to stay on exactly this issue. we ll bring a couple more voices to the table because i want to see what president obama s peers meant for us this week. stay with us. so anyway, i ve been to a lot of places. you know, i ve helped alot of people save a lot of money. but today.( sfx: loud noise of metal object hitting the ground) things have been a little strange. (sfx: sound of piano smashing) roadrunner: meep meep. meep meep? (sfx: loud thud sound) awhat strange place. geico®. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. and we got onesies. sometimes miracles get messy. so we use tide free. no perfumes or dyes for her delicate skin. brad. not it. not it. just kidding. that s our tide. what s yours?