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In reply to the discussion: This Is the America White People Wished For. This Is the America White People Want [View all]VOX
(22,976 posts)I was lucky to be born and raised in Los Angeles, where I had a very healthy exposure to numerous ethnicities and cultures while attending school, playing sports, or just hanging out with neighborhood kids: white, Hispanic, black, Jewish, Catholic. It was just one more aspect of getting a solid liberal-arts education.
I realize that today, not all white kids are lucky enough to have that kind of upbringing in a an environment uncontaminated by fear and mistrust. But it must be made clear to everyone that the **need** for diversity (and a crucial understanding of why everyone stands to gain from this) is to help insure the survival of this country.
Times change. Demographics shift. People migrate. It's the way of our shared history. Racism (apart from being one of the most deadly and destructive viewpoints a human being can adopt) is a horrible, ruinous waste of time, and utterly foolish from a practical standpoint.