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In reply to the discussion: "Let's work to end racial discrimination" is a better approach than "whites are so privileged". [View all]westerebus
(2,976 posts)This morning when I fed the stray cats on the front porch, I looked down the street at the children and their parents waiting in the cold for the school bus.
Black, brown, yellow and white. They are my neighbors, some friends.
I have the keys to some of their houses and they to mine.
We are fortunate to live in this middle class suburb.
Not everyone here had it easy coming up.
Two homes went into foreclosure a few years back.
There are four who have changed jobs from being downsized.
There are a few PhD's in the neighborhood.
We talk about the economy.
The recent marriage of the kid who used to cut my grass. Twenty years ago.
We talk about the tax increase coming for the schools.
How many vice principals is too many?
We talk about what college their kids might go to.
Or how many boxes of Girl Scout cookies we have to buy.
We are just people.
When we see each other grocery shopping, we stop. How's your mom doing?
A text on the phone. Need lift in am car inspection 8 good?
More than half go to church on Sunday.
Thought not the same church.
No one puts a political sign on their lawn.
I think every adult votes, but not for the same side.
These are my neighbors.
This is what I see when I look out my front door.
It's a pretty niece view.
Does it mean racism is gone?
No.
Will these kids experience racism, sexism, homophobia and violence in their lives?
Probably.
Is it changing for the better?
My experience says it is.