Wikipedia doesn\u2019t say<\/a> \u2013 other than noting that Olympia Fields is \u201cnoteworthy as one of the wealthiest and best educated, majority African-American communities in the United States\u201d with a bad link.)<\/p>\nBut with all the constant talk of \u201cdiversity and inclusion\u201d these days, I find myself thinking along these lines:<\/p>\n
if I were black, or, more specifically, Black, capital-B, that is, with an identity as such, and if my work commute permitted it, I presume that living in a community alongside those with whom I shared that identity would be highly appealing.<\/p>\n
Are black folk, or people of any minority group, the victim of racism on an ongoing or even periodic basis?\u00a0 Without claiming the answer one way or the other, I would presume living in a majority-black upper middle class community would reduce these concerns, and, for that matter, simply enhance my quality of life, relative to being one of a small number of my racial group in a middle\/upper-middle class suburb in which racial\/ethnic groups are represented in rough proportion to their overall population.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the same as, I suppose, students choosing historically black (or just drop the \u201chistorically\u201d part) colleges:\u00a0 no worries about fitting in on account of race (unless, I suppose, there\u2019s a culture in which blacks who don\u2019t exhibit the right sort of \u201cBlack culture\u201d are misfits, and I have no idea about that).<\/p>\n
But if you say that suburbs should have racial\/ethnic make-up that matches the make-up of the greater metropolitan areas of which they are a part, and universities should likewise (or match that of the broader regions from which they draw, or the nation if they draw from the nation), well, you can\u2019t make the math work unless you double-count those folks who prefer to live in segregated-by-choice communities \u2014 or unless, I suppose, you say that these communities are so rare that they\u2019re no more than a rounding error.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t answer the question of whether these communities should be that rare, and whether their existence is a good thing.<\/p>\n
(And, no, I\u2019m not going to say that there\u2019s something inherently wrong with these communities, because fair\u2019s fair if white people can\u2019t do it \u2014 because in neither of these examples are the residents\/students actively prohibiting others not of their racial\/ethnic group from their community.\u00a0 But at the same time, well, I can likewise understand someone home-shopping preferring a neighborhood with \u201cfeel-good\u201d levels of diversity over one in which the tables would be turned and they would be the minority.)<\/p>\n
Anyway, that\u2019s all the rambling for now.\u00a0 What\u2019s you\u2019re neighborhood like?<\/p>\n
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