Let that sink in: forty-two million immigrants in 187 years, then forty-three million immigrants in fifty years. That’s a lot of change in a perpetually changing America forever resistant to change. It’s no wonder that we are where we are. And for the most part, we are nowhere. News organizations, by and large, lack the clarity to look at race, immigration, and identity as intersecting issues that affect all Americans from all racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds. Too often, many of my fellow journalists—particularly white journalists, since most newsrooms are led and populated by white
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