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       There is a diversity ex-plosion taking place across the country, in the White House, in Congress, with women and with people of color. The new census reports confirm the importance of racial minorities as the primary demographic engine of the nation’s growth.

     Looking back over nine decades, I’m proud and pleased because secular humanism – the progressive struggle to make life better for everyone – won hundreds of victories during my time.

      America is changing, and in 2045, the majority in the country will be people of color. Personally, I think the transformation is taking place right now. In 2035 the majority of the country will be people of color. White people are not reproducing for many different reasons, and without children the race cannot grow and prosper.

     Clarke is president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a historic and important civil rights group. She has worked at the U.S. Justice Department and headed the civil rights bureau in the New York Attorney General’s office. She helped expose Trump’s sham Election Integrity Commission, which was designed to create justifications for voter sup-pression. And she resisted the Trump administration’s efforts to corrupt the 2020 census.