Yesterday the news media was abuzz (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/26/wealth-gap-whites-minorities_n_909465.html)with stories on the growing wealth and prosperity gap between black, white and brown people in America.To be candid, I am not sure why everyone is walking around in shock and awe. This is not news to most black and brown people who live in this great nation. The steady loss of wealth of the black-middle class and other racial minorities has been the subject of many black news articles and reports since 2008. Sadly, the mainstream media and policy makers in Washington rarely pay attention to those reports, because we still do not grasp as a nation that unless all of our people are doing well, and working; our nation as a whole cannot long do well domestically and globally.More... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sophia-a-nelson/time-for-america-to-wake-_b_911547.html)