When given a choice between whiteness and democracy, far too many white people in the U.S. still choose whiteness, adds Phillips. Photo by Hill Street Studios/Getty ImagesA Nation in Racial FluxDemographic data indicates that white people still comprise a majority—albeit rapidly shrinking—of the U.S. population. He says the U.S. is currently on track to become a majority-minority nation by 2042, six years earlier than most estimates. Although demographics increasingly support a multiracial democracy and its economic and social benefits, the nation’s partisan duopoly remains a challenge. We can suspend evictions, we can suspend student debt payments” as part of “a social-justice-equality agenda.”Cooper is optimistic that a multiracial democracy is within reach.