How many more?

[catherine]

If everyone stopped segmenting people by their skin color, if politicians stopped developing their base of support among racial or genetic separatists, if the media would make an effort to be color blind and everyday people stopped categorizing people by race and putting them into the appropriate box, how would you all know who to disapprove of?

haha!... well, that wouldn't be much fun. What would we have to talk about?

[CathyA]

Dealing with mending racial tension is a difficult issue to be sure, but we won't get anywhere by giving into feelings that turn into tinder for the next civil war. It's in our pure self-interest to pray that we may "seek to understand rather than be understood, seek to love rather than be loved."

Thank you catherine.

[Zoe Girl]

I would love to get to a place that I felt it was less color based and more person based, but I think we have a long way to go. I think that one way is to recognize we do feel more comfortable with people similar to us, and sometimes that is race. But I wonder what is going to happen as our kids who are in much more racially diverse setting grow up? I have said several times before that I live in a pretty racially diverse area and work in schools where I am the minority. I have found that I actually feel awkward in places that are really, really white. Just not the people I am used to, like I am not used to being around all straight people. So I do see hope but so many set-backs as well.

[catherine]

Thank you catherine.

Thank you for your honesty...

[jp1]

Lack of social mobility? There are fewer households now in the middle class. Thats because 2/3 of those who moved out of the middle class moved up.

The latest study i read on this said that basically the middle class has been cleaved in half. Half (including me) are doing better. Half are doing worse. Less are solidly in the middle. I seem to remember discussing it here a month or two ago. I'm on my phone at the moment but will look it up later if need be.

[iris lilies]

The latest study i read on this said that basically the middle class has been cleaved in half. Half (including me) are doing better. Half are doing worse. Less are solidly in the middle. I seem to remember discussing it here a month or two ago. I'm on my phone at the moment but will look it up later if need be.

We did talk about it, it seems, but I just heard the stats again last week.

The explanation of this chart says that most of the families that moved out of the middle class moved up.

[iris lily]

We did talk about it, it seems, but I just heard the stats again last week.

The explanation of this chart says that most of the families that moved out of the middle class moved up.

Well lets try that chart now:

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[iris lilies]

Well lets try that chart now:

I switched to our PC and now can't find the damned chart so as to provide a readable link, I know this tiny version is not readable..
To be continued...

[Yossarian]

I switched to our PC and now can't find the damned chart so as to provide a readable link, I know this tiny version is not readable..
To be continued...

[bae]

Methinks using "income level" to determine "class" is a mistake.

Some years I have near-zero income....