Many of our forefathers didn't believe in slavery at that time either.
America has always been diverse, but the diversity only grew over the years. This is healthy, because then almost invisible minorities become a big deal, and instead of being discriminated against, an amendment is made to guarantee equal rights. Our population over the years has boomed, the more people, the more different groups of people, the more diversity.
The 2006 US racial demographics are as follows:
white - 74% (221.3 million)
hispanic & latino - 14.8% (44.3 million)
black - 13.4% (40.9 million)
other - 8.6% (27.4 million)
asian - 4.4% (13.1 million)
Well most people in America tend to be white and Christian, it really depends on where you go. There's a pretty big racial demographic difference between New York City, NY; Lincoln, Nebraska; El Paso, Texas; and Philadelphia, PA. For religion though, I think most people are Christian no matter where you go.
The only problem with diversity is if that's your only focus. If you own a business and are concentrating on having the amount of hispanic, white, and black people be exactly equal, you're still looking at people for their skin color and not their abilities or who they are, so it's still being racist in a sense. I'm not one for too much political correctness.
