Wynter, L. (2002) p.184

According to generational historians Neil Howe and William Strauss. The (kids today) don't define race and culture in the same black and white terms-literal and figurative that confined the thinking of previous generations. The authors call today's teenage cohort Millennials, taken from the title of their latest book, Millennials Rising:

“The racial issues for Millennials are all mixed up. They're not black and white and they don't like seeing it in black and white. They kind of want to get past [racial] bean counting. . . [but] they're prepared to date, marry, and work for people of different races more than any other generation. The moral high ground is different; charges of racism can fly from anywhere. When you talk about African-Americans, for example, what are you really talking about? For a Millennial they might be Somalian, Haitian, or Jamaican. . . they might be professionals of some kind. And the idea that being one quarter black makes you black is ridiculous to them.”

The next American generation may not lead the electorate to vote for a new racial world order at the ballot box anytime soon. And they may or may vote with their feet to live in racially diverse neighborhoods or otherwise break longstanding patterns that tend to socially isolate one group from another. But more than any previous generation, they have been reared to vote with their wallets big time, and their notion of consumer sovereignty especially disrespects racial boundaries.