General Discussion

I could walk out my front door right now and find a homeless person in five or ten minutes at most.

When my wife and I have visited Portland I'm always struck by how many people are white. That goes back to when Oregon was a "Whites Only" territory.

I grew up in a city that was greater than 95% white but haven't lived in majority white places for more than forty years now.

My wife and I met teaching science in "urban" schools, urban being defined as "scary" by many of those who'd fled the cities to the white suburbs.

We haven't lived in "safe" white world since we married. Our choice to raise our children in environments very less homogeneous than the one I grew up in was very deliberate. We were successful too. As adults our children are not afraid of the "other" and comfortable in their own skins wherever life takes them. Even visiting cities like Portland Oregon.