Am I racist if I don't like living in my neighborhood?
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Some of my posts are based on messages I offer at the Circle of Hope, Broad & Dauphin PMs, you can hear the original message here. Subscribe to the podcast here. Am I racist if I don’t like living in my neighborhood? What a loaded question! First of all, not all of us live in diverse neighborhoods; some of us live in neighborhoods where we look like everyone else. For others of us, the question isn’t really relevant because not liking to live in our neighborhood may have little to do with race at all. It might just be a preference. So what is the questioner really talking about? Well, I think it's really about our reaction to a culture when we come from a different one. For the asker, it may have been because he or she is white and the neighborhood he or she lives in is predominantly black. This question seems to ask the dominators whether or not they are racist if they don’t like living in a neighborhood filled with dominated people. It makes me think of this proverb from Circle of Hope:
Am I racist if I don't like living in my neighborhood?
Am I racist if I don't like living in my…
Am I racist if I don't like living in my neighborhood?
Some of my posts are based on messages I offer at the Circle of Hope, Broad & Dauphin PMs, you can hear the original message here. Subscribe to the podcast here. Am I racist if I don’t like living in my neighborhood? What a loaded question! First of all, not all of us live in diverse neighborhoods; some of us live in neighborhoods where we look like everyone else. For others of us, the question isn’t really relevant because not liking to live in our neighborhood may have little to do with race at all. It might just be a preference. So what is the questioner really talking about? Well, I think it's really about our reaction to a culture when we come from a different one. For the asker, it may have been because he or she is white and the neighborhood he or she lives in is predominantly black. This question seems to ask the dominators whether or not they are racist if they don’t like living in a neighborhood filled with dominated people. It makes me think of this proverb from Circle of Hope: