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Race, Privilege and the Colorblind – Part I
I grew up in all-white suburbia. My grade school had zero African Americans, zero Latinos and zero Asian Americans. The only little dollop of diversity we had was a small Armenian community. My high school wasn’t much different. Out of 2,000 students, we had two – count ‘em, two! – black kids and, to the best of my recollection, one Latino. We did have three dozen Asian students. That was it. It wasn’t till I got to college that I had any meaningful contact with ...
