How white is "the Street"?
Someone made a comment to me recently about how there are no white people in the Sesame Street DVD we have (this person is white). Not having realized that or noticed, I paid attention the next time around and saw that in fact there were white kids and adults present throughout, though they were by no means the racial majority. I shared this with my sister and she told me about an interesting study she had read: if a white person is in a group where less than 80% of the people are white, they perceive themselves to be in the minority. Contrast this with a black person who, at 10%, feels like they are in a racially balanced mix.
Interesting...
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Kirsten and I were driving down our street when a car passed that was driven by a black guy. We both looked at each other and said, "Follow that guy, we need to get to know him." I don't think I've seen a black family in the last four years. I worry about how my kids think about color and race as they grow up here in Saskatchewan.
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