PEOPLE OF COLOR REPRESENTED IN SMALL NUMBERS

The under-representation of people of color at many of the demonstrations, rallies and protests in the wake of the WTO protests in Seattle last November has been cause of some concern among activists and other progressives in the growing movement to liberate poor and other disenfranchised people from the crippling effects of corporate globalization by multi-national corporations.

As an African-American and Vietnam Era Veteran who did participate as part of the contingency sent down from the Coalition on Homelessness San Francisco to protest the Democratic National Convention 2000, I personally found it odd that more people of color were not present.