Yes, but I guess you and I both have the same problem... we have never lived anywhere else, so it's tough to compare. (I'm from northern Wisconsin, and I've never lived south of Chicago.)

For a long time, Milwaukee had the distinction of being the most racially segregated city in the country. My wife used to live there, and experienced that. She says people weren't overtly racist or racially violent, but each just sort of stuck to their own kind, and coexisted pretty peacefully.

Chicago is more integrated. I love that I work for a company that values diversity. It's not uncommon for me to walk through the halls or sit in the cafeteria and hear conversations around me going on in three or four different languages. That's not to say there aren't racists in town, but it seems that we all get along pretty well.


In any case, thanks for your thoughts on this.
I guess, like with other forms of social progress, our best hope lies with the next generation.

Some of the most ardnt racists I ever encountered were in Brooklyn NY.

I've lived in Michigan and California, and have family in the south (Virginia and Kentucky).

I have say, some of the worst racism I've ever witnessed was in Detroit.

In Detroit? From who whites or blacks? I have been here all my life.
I can go back as far as the days the streetcars rode down the middle
of Woodward (1940's & 1950s). Them days White was the rulers of
Detroit, until the late 1950's when Blacks begin to move in, and guess
what Whites begin to move out.....Now tell me who is the racist?

Detroit was still full of racial attention which in 1967 triggered the
rebellion. Now here we are in 2007 whites are now crying racism
here in Detroit. So who is to be held responsibile? However here in
Detroit there is alots of interracial relationships & friendships, but
there is always a bad seed in all races that creates a problem, and
our Late Mayor Coleman Young addressed the issue by saying if you
don't like us then move across 8 mile.

Now since it has been established that Detroit is a racist city, what
about them small majority white cities that don't allow blacks in their
city after dark? This can be Ann Arbor, Benton Harbor, West Bloomfield
Hills (One have to make at least 140.000 a year to live there), and I
won't mention the many small Michigan towns where the Klan & skinheads meet.

So when we speak about racism we are not just talking about
one race but a bunch of Races. In closing Jim Crow is still alive
and well in the South.

I believe you are confusing economics with racism.

Needing a large income to live in certain cities isn't racist - I live in New Haven (a culturally diverse city), but about 30 minutes away is Greenwich (one of the most exclusive and expensive cities in the country). I can't live there either. I can't afford it. It has nothing to do with race. If I had several million dollars I could live there - as could any black man who had several million dollars.

You know, I try to read your posts, but your English is so atrocious all I see is 'blah blah blah Whites, blah blah you whites, blah blah whites'.

Look let me tell you this so you can get off my back. The ONLY
damn time I will play the race card is when its being played.
So it seems to me like you get your draws in a bunch whenever I
defend what is being said about blacks, and yet you are in denial
about racism being mentioned in the contents of these posts.

If you can't stand the heat don't come into the kitchen, and
that's how I feel about it. You are the one who posted that Detroit
was the worse racist city, and I jumped to the defensive side.

You are crying about racism in Detroit, but yet your kind (since you
don't like me using the word white) is flooding downtown Detroit.
So if you can't take it don't dish it out, due to the fact I have my
rights to defend negative bs, and if you can't seem to understand
that.....Oh well. I will always be me regardless to what you or
anyone else seem to think about my posts. I am NOT ashamed of who I
am or what my skin color is.

It amazes me that so far, the only person who seems to think race matters here, and who has a lot of racist views and overtones, is a black person... I certainly wasn't expecting that...