Immigration levels from Latin America and Asia are currently so high, if they continue, whites will eventually become the minority race in the United States.

There are mixed reactions to this fact across the country. President Bill Clinton seems to think it is America’s destiny.

“This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture,” Clinton said.

He said America is an idea and a promise not bound by blood or color. Anyone who suggests limiting immigration into the United States to keep it predominantly white would be labeled as racist and un-American. The first state to see such a transition would be California, which currently has a booming “minority” population.

“I don’t know if I really fear being a minority,” said John R. Blackwell III, a white corrections officer who lives outside Sacramento, Calif. “What I fear is not having the same opportunities as other people because I’m labeled as being white.”

But whites are still predominant in Iowa and at Iowa State University. If this transition is ever seen locally, we will go through the same problems California has gone through with police brutality and harsh racism.

Unless we do something about it now.

People need to be educated about other cultures and learn to accept those cultures. Generation by generation, America has become more and more accepting of other cultures.

The students of Iowa State are the next generation to come into the working world and eventually will be in positions of power. It is up to us as individuals to educate ourselves and get over any feelings of discomfort we have with empowering people of different races and backgrounds. One way to provide this education may be a multi-cultural center at ISU.

In order to avert problems like California sees on a regular basis, the students of ISU need to take the reigns of leadership and empower themselves to face the future and realize that a huge racial mesh will occur whether our relatives and ancestors would like it or not.