@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 Hispan…
@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.
@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.