>> i actually am the americorps vista leader here at tulane at the center for public service. i work with a team of vista, and a lot of them are recent college grads. they finished in may or maybe a couple years before that or they might be grad students. we have a couple of folks outside of that range, like myself, the we are really a minority -- but we are a minority. in terms of the training, asking about race and gender or equality or inequality, one of the things, especially with the trayvon martin case that was mentioned before, one of the things that i think a lot of us found out in conversation with people that we see everyday, people that we know, that we love and care about us, is that the experience of being an american if you are white is very different than the experience of being an american if you are not white. for me specifically, it is black, but i think that is also true for other people of color, for women in general, for the lgbt community. it really hit home for me because my boyfriend is white. we've had conversations about trayvon martin. he was saying,

i actually am the americorps vista leader here at tulane at the center for public service. vista, and a team of a lot of them are recent college grads. they finished in may or maybe a couple years before that or they might be grad students. we have a couple of folks outside of that range, like myself, the we are really a minority -- but we are a minority. training, asking about race and gender or equality or inequality, one of the things, especially with the trayvon martin case that was mentioned before, one of the things that i think a lot of us conversation with people that we see everyday, people that we know, that we love and care about us, is that the experience of being an american if you are white is very different than the experience of being an american if you are not white. for me specifically, it is black, but i think that is also true for other people of color, for women in general, for the lgbt community. it really hit home for me because my boyfriend is white. abouthad conversations trayvon martin. he was saying, it was just too dumb people who made mistakes.

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those were the underlying themes, but the ideas included americorps, welfare reform, fiscal disciplinee -- increasing trade -- reinventing government, charter schools, community policing -- basically, ideas that dealt with concerns people had in their everyday lives. guest.l from is our here is the cover of the book, "the new democrats and the ," what are some of the dangers democrats face today? democratics have a -- guest: democrats have a demographic advantage. , michael barone used to call the democrats the stupid party. republicans in recent elections have not acted very smartly. in the 2012 election, for example, they basically told hispanic voters and activists women we do not want your vote. as long as they continue on that path, the democrats will have a demographic advantage, but in the republicans have a demographic advantage, so those things change. for democrats, the challenge is to have a solid economic growth agenda so that we can create the wealth that we need to do the things that we want to do, and to constantly reform government. the most important thing that preside

i actually am the americorps vista leader here at tulane at the center for public service. vista, and a team of a lot of them are recent college grads. they finished in may or maybe a couple years before that or they might be grad students. we have a couple of folks outside of that range, like myself, the we are really a minority -- but we are a minority. training, asking about race and gender or equality or inequality, one of the things, especially with the trayvon martin case that was mentioned before, one of the things that i think a lot of us conversation with people that we see everyday, people that we know, that we love and care about us, is that the experience of being an american if you are white is very different than the experience of being an american if you are not white. for me specifically, it is black, but i think that is also true for other people of color, for women in general, for the lgbt community. it really hit home for me because my boyfriend is white. abouthad conversations trayvon martin. he was saying, it was just too dumb people who made mistakes.