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                                             July 22, 2021

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From "The Sum of Us", "Living Apart"  p.168:

  "White people are some of the most
  segregated people in America."



p. 169:

  "I wanted to investigate the damage done to all of us, including
  white people, by the presence of segregation.  The typical white
  person lives in a neighborhood that is at least 75 percent white.
  In today's increasingly multiracial society, where white people
  value diversity but rarely live it, there are costs-- financial,
  developmental, even physical-- to continuing to segregate as we
  do."




p. 175:

  "The white isolation continues amid rising racial and ethnic
  diversity in America, though few white people say they want
  it to-- in fact, quite the opposite.  Diversity has become a
  commonly accepted 'good' despite its elusiveness; people who
  seem to know that the more you interact with people who are
  different from you, the more commonalities you see and the
  less they seem like 'the other.'  Research repeatedly bears
  this out.  ..."



p. 178:

  "An environmental health scientist from the University of
  California, Berkeley, Rachel Morello-Frosch, conducted a
  major study examining pollutants that are known
  carcinogens and found that more segregated cities had more
  of them in the air.  (( check )) As she explained to me, 'In those
  segregated cities, white folks are much worse off than
  their white counterparts who live in less segregated
  cities, in terms of pollution burden.' "

  "I marveled at the force of her finding: segregated cities
  have higher-cancer causing pollutants -- for white people,
  too-- than more integrated ones.  Professor Morello-Frosch
  was quick to add: 'And it's not explained by poverty... That
  effect remains even after you've takin into account the
  relative concentrations of poverty.' "



p. 180-181:

  "These white parents are paying for their fear because
  they're assuming that white-dominant schools are worth
  the cost to their white children; essentially, that
  segregated schools are best."

  "But what if the entire logic is wrong?  What if they're not
  only paying too high a cost for segregation, but they're also
  mistaken about the benefit?  Here's where things get
  interesting.  Compared to students at predominantly white
  schools, white students who attend diverse K-12 schools
  achieve better learning outcomes and even higher test scores,
  particularly in areas such as math and science.  Why?  Of
  course, white students at racial diverse schools develop more
  cultural competency-- the ability to collaborate and feel at
  ease with people from different racial, ethnic, and economic
  backgrounds-- than students who attend segregated schools.
  But their minds are also improved when it comes to critical
  thinking and problem solving.  Exposure to multiple
  viewpoints leads to more flexible and creative thinking and
  greater ability to solve problems."


"The Same Sky", p. 205:


  "... if you've spent a lifetime seeing yourself as the winner...
  You might also learn that if there are problems, you and yours are
  likely to be spared the costs. The thing is, that's just not the
  case with the environment and climate change.  We live under the
  same sky.  Scorching triple-digit days, devastating wildfires, and
  drought restrictions on drinking water have become the new normal
  for California's working-class barrios and gated communites
  alike.  Wall Street was flooded by Superstorm Sandy; most of the
  13 million people with imperiled seafront housing on the coasts
  belong to the upper classes.  ..."


  "The majority of white Americans are skeptical or opposed to
  tackling climate change, but the majority of white Americans
  will suffer nonetheless from an increasingly inhospitable
  planet."





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