For generations people have fought for equality and integration. Fought to receive higher education, to work at Fortune 500 companies, to live in suburban neighborhoods, and to obtain the same privileges that the white neighbors had. When faced with opposition these people then returned to their own homes and communities where they thrived and built them up, but still returning to knock on white America’s door to remind them that they won’t be complacent in an unequal society.

What gave them the strength to knock on the white man’s door? Their own communities where they learned about their history, their people and themselves. So as important as it is for minority people to diffuse throughout America, it is also just as important for them to build and grow within their own communities. That’s because there is equality through diversity, but there is also strength through similarities.

Yes, there needs to be more minority politicians on Capitol Hill, but there also needs to be more minority politicians to take charge of their own communities. We have often seen entire communities and countries drained of their working class whom migrated in order to build up themselves and another country. Of course, there needs to be more minority faces on major network television channels, but there also needs to be more support for the minority press, like Telemundo and Al Jazeera that continues to show the stories that major network television channels may not show. It’s all about timing and knowing when one is needed to break racial barriers, when one's community needs him/her, and more importantly when one needs their own community.