1/ I criticize the way people talk about race a lot, so lemme give just one example of what I think a useful conversation would be: TONS
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2/ of wealthy white proudly prObama and anti-Trump liberals go to great lengths to make sure their kids are in predominately white
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3/ schools, and as anyone can tell you this reinforces racial inequality in some rather vicious ways, robbing black kids of the
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4/ opportunities many white kids, like me, were gifted simply from being in the right area code. It would be useful to ask wealthy white
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5/ liberals why they do this, and how they reconcile their political beliefs with their choice to make sure their kids are educated
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6/ in segregated spaces. Not that no one has asked this (great recent This American Life, though that didn't really touch on the liberal
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7/ part of the equation), but it's in a category of question that gets way less attention than certain dumb culture-war flareups that
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8/8 have little material affect on anything. Also, in (4) I obviously meant ZIP, not area code. Fin.
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we've written about this a lot
@TheBillfold, ex: https://thebillfold.com/town-based-school-districts-today-town-based-school-districts-tomorrow-town-based-school-144a56aff9bb#.jx1l33pu4 …1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes
that's a good piece -- wish there were more coverage of stuff like that
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Another one http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/the-problem-we-all-live-with …
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