There are a large number of whites moving into mostly black neighborhoods here in DC.

A lot of these people move to black neighborhoods when they’re single or newly married, but as soon as they have kids and those kids become school-aged, they’re out the door in search of neighborhoods with a “good school district.”

Which Asians is she refering to, I wonder?

Middle class – upper middle class Desis with families certainly tend to cluster in majority White neighborhoods – on purpose. In New York they tend to move OUT of the city as soon as they are able to move to the more affluent and safer suburbs of New Jersey – either in majority White neighborhoods or in neighborhoods that have now become majority Desi.

I wonder what sociologist Camille Charles would think of that? Or maybe it already popped up in her research but she chose to omit it.

Elsewhere you right, “”Many of my friends who are journalists of color lament that their workplaces aren’t very diverse– I don’t feel that way at WAMU, where my boss is African-American, the reporter who sat behind me was South Asian and our General Manager is a woman of color, too. Some may scoff at a word like “diversity”– why should it matter, right? The news is news, reporters and commentators should just do their jobs and do them well. That is true, but so is this– our identities shape who we are, and sometimes, they shape our stories, adding an element or detail with which some of us can identify.”

Let me ask, if someone prefers to see more “people of color” at their workplace or in their neighborhood, is this any less racist than some people preferring to see more “people of palor” at their’s?

Are people of palor allowed to openly acknowledget that, ” identities shape who we are, and sometimes, they shape our stories, adding an element or detail with which some of us can identify.”
… and have that “identity” be directly linked to their race/color?

What if someone’s main page says, “in x number of years such and such city will not longer be vanilla”?