and who challenged Henry Clay to arnduel. An officer of the parents’ associationrnexpressed “outrage” that Randolph’srnname should be associated withrna school that is “65 percent Hispanic,rn30 percent black, and 5 percent Asian.”rnThe question arises: What to changernthe name of P.S. 47 to? The article saidrnthat the most popular name for schoolsrnin New York is Roberto Clemente.rnClemente was a star baseball player forrnthe Pittsburgh Pirates who died whenrnhis plane crashed en route to Nicaraguarnto deliver supplies to earthquake victims.rnNow, there’s a hero the kids inrnthe South Bronx can “identifv with,”rnwhich, after all, is the important thing.rnWhen the John Randolph Schoolrnopened 82 years ago, there still existedrnan elite in New York that could comprehendrnthe meaning of great constitutionalrnissues and that thought it fittingrnto honor the men who had addressedrnthem in the love of libertv. There existed,rntoo, a population of European immigrantsrnthat was willing to follow thernelite’s lead in such matters. No more.rnThe bemused principal of P.S. 47, IrarnVictor, felt compelled to point out tornthe outraged parents that “lots ofrnschools are named after George Washington,rnand he owned slaves, too.” Indeedrn—as did Thomas Jefferson, JamesrnMadison, and others. Even AbrahamrnLincoln—as a particularly erudite parentrnmay someday discover—believed inrnthe intellectual inferioritv of Negroesrnand favored returning them to Africa.rnSo, let’s rid ourselves of these dead,rnwhite, and bigoted males who, throughrnsome deplorable cultural lag, still encumberrnour political culture. Think ofrnall the opportunities that will open uprnto honor Martin Luther King, Jr., andrnMalcolm X—if not Nelson Mandelarnand Patrice Lumumba—in the ThirdrnWorld schools of our Third Wodd cities.rn—Ralph RaicornMihajlo Mihajlov would like to noternthat the views expressed in hisrnFebruary J 993 article in Chroniclesrn{“‘The Consequence of Ideas: ThernFuture of Radio Liberty and RadiornFree Europe”) were his alone and notrnintended to represent those of thernRadios.rnPrincipalities & Powersrnbv Samuel FrancisrnA Story of the Days to ComernEarly in December of last year, whilernPresident-elect Clinton was trying torncome up with a Cabinet that wouldrn”look more like America,” the U.S. CensusrnBureau published a report that toldrnus what America really looks like andrnwhat it will probably look like 60 yearsrnfrom now. Presumablv, Mr. Clinton willrnhave departed from the White Housernlong before the prophecies of the bureau’srnprofessional beancounters comerntrue, but not even the cabal of questionablernmillionaires, hatchet-faced fagrnhags, and trendy minorities selected byrnthe new President to run the countryrnfor the next four years bears any resemblancernto the rulers of the days to comernor the population they will rule. Indeed,rnthe subtext of the Census Bureau reportrnsuggests that within the lifetimes ofrnAmericans now living, the United Statesrnas its citizens have known it for the lastrntwo centuries will, for all practical purposes,rncease to exist.rnThe report, written by demographerrnJennifer Cheeseman Day, concludesrnthat the population of the United Statesrnwill grow from its present 255 millionrnto 383 million by 2050, but the expansionrnof total numbers is not the mostrninteresting finding of the report. It alsornconcludes that by 2050, the Hispanicrnpart of the population will have grownrnfrom its present 24 million to 81 million,rnthat the “Asian and Pacific Islander”rnportion will have risen from 9rnmillion in 1992 to 41 million, that thernblack population is “projected to almostrndouble from 32 million in 1992 to 62rnmillion,” and that “the non-HispanicrnWhite share of the U.S. populationrnwould steadily fall from 75 percent inrn1992 . . . to 53 percent in 2050.” Whilernnonwhites and Hispanics will increasernby some 120 million between 1992 andrn2050, the white population will swell byrna mere 11 million in that period, andrnby the middle of the next centuryrnwhites should be on the eve of becomingrna minority in the United States.rnThe report attributes these changesrnin the ethnic and racial compositionrnof the country to differences in thernbirthrates of the various groups and alsornto immigration rates. “Currently,” itrnstates, “about 66 percent of all birthsrnare non-Hispanic White. That percentagernis expected to fall to 61 in 2000,rn56 m 2010, 48 m 2030, and 42 m 2050.rnAll other race and ethnic groups wouldrnincrease their share of births.” As forrnimmigration, “the U.S. population inrnthe year 2000 is projected to be 9 millionrn(3 percent) larger than it wouldrnhave been if there had been no netrnimmigration after July 1, 1991. Thernequivalent figures for 2010, 2030, andrn2050 are 21 million (7 percent), 49 millionrn(14 percent), and 82 million (21rnpercent).” By 2050, that is, the populationrnof the country will, in the words ofrnthe New York ‘limes reporting on thernCensus Bureau publication, “include 82rnmillion people who arrived in this countryrnafter 1991 or who were born in thernUnited States of parents who did. Thisrngroup of immigrants and their childrenrnwill account for 21 percent of the population.”rnThe Bureau’s conclusions differ fromrnthose of earlier reports it has publishedrnbecause this time it makes use of ratherrndifferent assumptions from those it employedrnin the past. In earlier reports,rnthe Bureau assumed that the total fertilityrnrate would fall. But, “since the latern1980’s, after a relativelv stable 15-yearrntrend of low fertility, there has been arndramatic rise in total fertility levels tornalmost 2.1 births per woman. Secondly,rnconvergence of fertility among race andrnethnic groups is no longer assumed.”rnEarlier Census Bureau reports also assumedrnthat immigration would declinerndue to the Immigration Reform andrnControl Act of 1986. “The last report,”rnJUNE 1993/9rnrnrn