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‘Yes, I was a youthful idealist. So what happened? Whence the ‘pessimism and cynicism’ about race?’

June 5, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

Derb writes:

Fifty years happened—that’s what happened. Fifty years that thoughtful, observant people of my generation lived through at the regulation speed of one day per day. (…)

When my (Chinese immigrant) wife and I decided to move to the ‘burbs and start a family, we bought the best house we could afford in a neighborhood as far as possible from concentrations of blacks.

This is what everyone does. It’s what our neighbors did.

Those neighbors are all white—and about 95 percent liberal Democrats.

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