The people to feel sorry for are the kids. Evanston is a very diverse community. Including lots of mixed ethnic/racial families. How are their kids supposed to act and choose their classes? Pick the lowest or highest on the oppression olympics ladder? If they choose one over another do they become "race traitors" to the other? Adults are the only one who can stop the insanity. Where are they?
The people to feel sorry for are the kids. Evanston is a very diverse community. Including lots of mixed ethnic/racial families. How are their kids supposed to act and choose their classes? Pick the lowest or highest on the oppression olympics ladder? If they choose one over another do they become "race traitors" to the other? Adults are the only one who can stop the insanity. Where are they?
@BillD thanks for saying this. I lived in Evanston not long ago and was proud of how diverse my little middle-class cul-de-sac was. Neighbors ranged from a Turkish immigrant couple gut-renovating their house, a single white woman who struggled after losing her job, the elderly black couple who were still working past retirement, a Hispanic guy who inherited his home from his mom, a single white guy who was deaf and I wrote to about fixing my bike (because he fixed bikes), etc. -- the diversity was VAST! We all got along. We were just neighbors parking on the same street and saying "Hi!". Normal stuff when folks are colorblind.
Now I'm told colorblind *is* racism because I'm white.
I sold my Evanston home to a single white mother with a mixed daughter. She grabbed the house because of the school district. It's terrible to know that her daughter goes to one of these Evanston/Skokie schools that literally teaches: "the systems and the government are controlled by White people and racism being a result of it," This daughter could grow up thinking her mother is racist against her. How far we've fallen from our ideals.
The people to feel sorry for are the kids. Evanston is a very diverse community. Including lots of mixed ethnic/racial families. How are their kids supposed to act and choose their classes? Pick the lowest or highest on the oppression olympics ladder? If they choose one over another do they become "race traitors" to the other? Adults are the only one who can stop the insanity. Where are they?
@BillD thanks for saying this. I lived in Evanston not long ago and was proud of how diverse my little middle-class cul-de-sac was. Neighbors ranged from a Turkish immigrant couple gut-renovating their house, a single white woman who struggled after losing her job, the elderly black couple who were still working past retirement, a Hispanic guy who inherited his home from his mom, a single white guy who was deaf and I wrote to about fixing my bike (because he fixed bikes), etc. -- the diversity was VAST! We all got along. We were just neighbors parking on the same street and saying "Hi!". Normal stuff when folks are colorblind.
Now I'm told colorblind *is* racism because I'm white.
I sold my Evanston home to a single white mother with a mixed daughter. She grabbed the house because of the school district. It's terrible to know that her daughter goes to one of these Evanston/Skokie schools that literally teaches: "the systems and the government are controlled by White people and racism being a result of it," This daughter could grow up thinking her mother is racist against her. How far we've fallen from our ideals.
The adults? They're busy creating, embellishing, and publishing modern-day fairy tales for all of us to believe in...OR ELSE!