We are all Slave now.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...=.6e76a8351bf1

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.9082b93f6c1e

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown...than-students/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.7285fc094e77

You really should read White Fragility. This idea that white people create actual friendships with diverse people is, in general, just not true. It may occur early in life, but apparently, those relationships do not last, no matter what your overly-weighted anecdotal evidence tells you.

I don't know what this means: "Whites still have some institutional advantages, but the trend is toward a much more varied culture." But the first part is comical. Whites enjoy deep, entrenched, lasting, meaningful, and self-sustaining advantages.

TM

I read some of the reviews of it after you posted about it last week and it sounded like a damn fine piece of writing. I'll order a copy to read after finishing House of Cards Season 6.

There's no way I can argue with the statistics you cite in those articles. I could take the cheap approach and cite a contrary finding, but I find the data in those articles pretty convincing. I also think I may have committed the sin of extrapolating from my own background. I grew up in a diverse neighborhood and strangely still live in one, and I see the diversity expanding. But YMMV. Living in the Mid-Atlantic is not living in Missouri. Sincerely, Indians, Asians, and people from of varied Middle Eastern descent have been and remain fixtures of the local communities I've known for so long, the idea of them as an "other" is just bizarre. And I think that experience is common to almost everyone I know. (I suspect it derives from having lived in areas populated with well off professionals.) I think I'm just lucky to have enjoyed diverse neighborhoods, and that perhaps gives me an unduly skeptical view of the issue of segregation.

My comment on varied cultures means that whites still dominate both in number and influence in my area, but are being overtaken by people of various non-white backgrounds.