the census figures, lawrence, but we look at between 2000 and 2010 there were a 50% increase in multiracial youth born in this country. and here's someone that is purportedly running for president in 2012 and is casting aspersions on the nation's first biracial president. and i think that that is a disturbing thing. >> and he does it with the sleaziest of possible amendments like oh, there are some really nice muslims out there. >> i know fabulous muslims i think was the quote. >> fabulous. >> which is, as you said, a classic avoidance strategy. and i think it is time to hold ice r ate geerg vio ptsf e uny. pdomeortrglg keheanerus, t u' aolelrit. iin gutr polics now and doing something very, very ugly. >> he is indeed. >> huffington post reporter and msnbc analyst alex wagner, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> coming up, the man behind president obama's re-election campaign, and why he makes progressives nervous. >>> and last night at the congressional correspondents dinner in washington, new york congressman anthony weiner stole the show with jabs at ever

this is the most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic america. people come here to their communities and it is good for them, but is it good for us as a nation? >> it can be if it is done right. america was built on waves of people coming through they sort of bottom wrong neighborhoods which were just a squalid and mistrusted and illegal 100 years ago as they are now. a lot of the same debates happen. somehow it worked. people started businesses and succeeded and got their kids in to politics in school. i am looking for pathways assuming the economy will keep demanding people and people will come in whether we want them not. which tends to happen historically. how to make their neighborhoods work for them so they can help themselves rather than having to do with it 20 years from now as a criminal or welfare problem. tavis: i am scratching the surface on what is a provocative book that raises questions on our future, it is from doug saunders, called "arrival city: how the largest migration in history is reshaping our world". good to have you won.

according to new census data, whites and blacks are having fewer children but multiracial, asian, and hispanic americans are having more children. these demographic changes are transforming many cities, making them more multiethnic. more than half the country's 100 largest cities would have seen a significant population decline without an influx of hispanic and asian residents. some sociologists say the country's population shift will have a major impact on society, culture, and government funding in health, education, and welfare. kong depress woman norton, what will the biggest change from this demographic evolution be? >> well, bonnie, culture always leads. but not to worry. government spending never catches up. >> immigrants come to america to experience the american dream and that's freedom and rewards that come from personal responsibility as long as we can retain the american dream, then the changes will feel is more creative ways of experiencing it. >> i think that's a challenge, obviously the changes will be social or cultural that's obvious. they driving economic and governm

will be able to expand its range of services to its multigenerational, multiracial, and multiethnic communities by providing more education, more childcare, more health and wellness services, career training, and especially with computers, job opportunities for many people currently underserved. i visited the current facility about three to four dozen times a year in my role as a neighbor and my role as an educator. the current facility grossly compromises any educational programs, any outreach through the community that might go on and serve them if it were better. this is an organic, respectful community organization under pat and phil's leadership and the new board of trustees, it's got new life providing new opportunities for a wide range of constituents, all of which will contribute to our city. >> thank you. >> good evening. my name is ms. menendez, a current student at san francisco state university with the guardian scholars program. i was placed in foster care at the age of 16. not a lot of people had a lot of hope in me. people thought i was going to drop out of school, have i don't k

after all, we are all multiracial. my mother would say that i'm not.ut we're all -- you know -- she would say you're 100% korean. but we know that. we share many things together. if we took the genetic test that henry louis gates gave himself and this interesting documentary, we would see a whole lot of similarity in us rather than racial difference. >> next question. >> first, thank you for sharing your insights with us. my question today is directed more so to dr. john. but i would like to get all of the panelists' feedback. first, i wanted to point out that the census data that we have all been looking at as shown that we are moving towards an increasingly diverse population, which includes a heavily foreign-born population, as dr. join pointed out earlier. many of those are u.s., naturalized citizens, and then we also have u.s.-born citizens. however, we also have an increasingly vocal and politically mobilized and documented population living and working within the united states. in part -- in response to that high visibility, we have heard people

like it has literally brought -- when you've show the census, the multiracial statistics, hip-hop is a big part of the reason why the raises have gotten together to the point of the essentially, you know, creating more kids together. so it has been -- it just has been amazing. but in the same ways -- >> what is the sort of -- >> because here is the biggest problem at least in the 50's, 60's and 70's. anything before the 70's people did not know each other. they did not live together. they didn't talk to each other. white parents didn't want black kids -- they didn't want their kids to go to school together. they didn't know each other. in the deep south, blacks and whites knew each other but only in a subservient relationship, so they didn't know each other as equal and together. so in the 80's, when it became -- it could have happened some like if the rock movement had in the 80's than it would be like rock was this amazing revolution for the races, but it didn't because the races were still separate when the rock revolution happened and what stock happened. there were just starting

after all, we are all multiracial. my mother would say that i'm not.ut we're all -- you know -- she would say you're 100% korean. but we know that. we share many things together. if we took the genetic test that henry louis gates gave himself and this interesting documentary, we would see a whole lot of similarity in us rather than racial difference. >> next question. >> first, thank you for sharing your insights with us. my question today is directed more so to dr. john. but i would like to get all of the panelists' feedback. first, i wanted to point out that the census data that we have all been looking at as shown that we are moving towards an increasingly diverse population, which includes a heavily foreign-born population, as dr. join pointed out earlier. many of those are u.s., naturalized citizens, and then we also have u.s.-born citizens. however, we also have an increasingly vocal and politically mobilized and documented population living and working within the united states. in part -- in response to that high visibility, we have heard people

like it has literally brought -- when you've show the census, the multiracial statistics, hip-hop is a big part of the reason why the raises have gotten together to the point of the essentially, you know, creating more kids together. so it has been -- it just has been amazing. but in the same ways -- >> what is the sort of -- >> because here is the biggest problem at least in the 50's, 60's and 70's. anything before the 70's people did not know each other. they did not live together. they didn't talk to each other. white parents didn't want black kids -- they didn't want their kids to go to school together. they didn't know each other. in the deep south, blacks and whites knew each other but only in a subservient relationship, so they didn't know each other as equal and together. so in the 80's, when it became -- it could have happened some like if the rock movement had in the 80's than it would be like rock was this amazing revolution for the races, but it didn't because the races were still separate when the rock revolution happened and what stock happened. there were just starting

like it has literally brought -- when you've show the census, the multiracial statistics, hip-hop is a big part of the reason why the raises have gotten together to the point of the essentially, you know, creating more kids together. so it has been -- it just has been amazing. but in the same ways -- >> what is the sort of -- >> because here is the biggest problem at least in the 50's, 60's and 70's. anything before the 70's people did not know each other. they did not live together. they didn't talk to each other. white parents didn't want black kids -- they didn't want their kids to go to school together. they didn't know each other. in the deep south, blacks and whites knew each other but only in a subservient relationship, so they didn't know each other as equal and together. so in the 80's, when it became -- it could have happened some like if the rock movement had in the 80's than it would be like rock was this amazing revolution for the races, but it didn't because the races were still separate when the rock revolution happened and what stock happened. there were just starting

like it has literally brought -- when you've show the cnsus, the multiracial statistics, hip-hop is a big part of the reason why the raises have gotten together to the point of the essentially, you know, creating more kids together. so it has been -- it just has been amazing. but in the same ways -- >> what is the sort of -- >> because here is the iggest problem at least in the 50's, 60's and 70's. anything before the 70's people did not know eachother. they di not live together. they didn't talk to each other. white parents didn't want black kids -- they didn't want their kids to go to school together. they dn't know each other. in the deep south, blacks and whites knew each other but only in a subservient relationship, so they didn't know each other as equal and together. so in the 80's, when it bame -- it could have happened some like if the rock movement had in the 80's than it would be like rock was this amazing revolution for the races, but it didn't because the races were still separate when the rock relution happened and what stock happened. there were just starting to come to

we're seeing in the country, intermarriage leads to a new category, literally, of children who are multiracial in growing numbers, as we saw from the chart dr. spenderhughes showed. >> we're seeing a lot of intrafaith marriages between shi'ia-sunni. i remember i had husband conducted a shi'ia-sunni wedding with, maybe a black and white marriage, you know, in the early days, it was that traumatic, so much so the families of the two sides did not come to the wedding because they couldn't imagine the shi'ia were marrying a sunni and both were muslim and both were doctors. but that was 10 years ago and now we see a lot of shi'ia-sunni marriages, we see, you know, black-white marriages, jewish-muslim marriages, catholic-muslim apparentlies, and of course we're also seeing interracial apparentlies because islam sort of is colorblind and we do come from more than 50 countries and what unites us, we're very diverse ethnically, nationally, but what unites us is our faith. we have -- that is the glue that keeps the community together. so if you can walk into any mosque, you can see the united nations th