Leave it to a liberal Democrat parent to not know how to raise a kid to not hate other people.
I apologize for wasting my time and yours.
FMCDH(BITS)
Tolerance:
“The Virtue of having a belief in NOTHING!!
Wonder why the lib moved out of Brooklyn? My guess is he did not like all of the issues that came with the urban environment and the multicultural issues of the city. Now he doesn’t want his kids to know.
Ms. Wenner Moyer (the author) doesn't say WHY her family moved.
And are we to believe more diverse neighborhoods weren't available to move to? Just how important could "diversity" be to her, if she chose a place so ... um... "white" in which to settle.
Unless she's like so many liberals -- loves to bemoan her "whiteness" while simultaneously (unconsciously?) seeking it out. For SOME reason.
Extended race cringe by some White doofus.
What she is advocating amounts to child abuse. Her kids will grow up ignorant of racial realities and will easy prey for feral blacks because they will ignore any red flags about their presence or character for fear of being “racist”.
“We love our new life, but one thing about the community is not so great: It’s predominantly white.”
Well, that’s racist. If liberal racists like this author don’t like white people then perhaps they should practice some form of self-segregation.
Granted I’d prefer a world where people weren’t discriminated against, insulted for, or profiled because of, their whiteness. Truly, it would be nice if bigots like the article’s author didn’t run around judging people because of their race and simply accept being a member of a community regardless of the color of said community.
But I’m a realist and I can admit that life-long racists like this article’s author aren’t going to be swayed by facts, moral appeals, or positive personal experiences with white people. Given the intractability of white-hating liberals, I’m willing to accept as a solution the feasible expedient of encouraging said hatemongers to relocate to their own small-minded, hateful, dysfunctional communities. Better still if such communities are in another nation, so we don’t have to listen to their incessant racist whining or deal with the political and economic fallout from their schizophrenic social policies.
“Africologists?”
Oh, for God’s Sake, will these leftoids ever stop??
Dear Reader, we absolutely adore our life in the lily white suburb here! It’s so much fun! Less crime! Less risk! Yet what do I do about guilt, that we moved to a pure snowy white place, and enjoy it so much? Is there a quick, speedy way to get my kids used to all races, without having to place them into such a situation? Could we maybe pay a monthly sum to have an ethnic token visit our home? Or would watching certain TV shows or listening to certain music do the trick? Thanks.
“What will it mean in the long run if my white children don’t see and befriend people who come from different racial backgrounds?”
Not a thing. I grew up in a town of less than 10,000. From kindergarten through high school there were no blacks in our community, not one. A few Indians from the reservation and a handful of Mexicans was as ethnic as we got. The first black people I ever met were in boot camp. That included several of the drill sergeants so I did the best I could to get along with everybody. I still do.
Whites, Blacks, Filipinos, Polish, Jews, poor Southern Whites who couldn’t sign their own papers, college grads and big dumb oafs from all walks of life, thrown together in an old wooden barracks for two months, sleeping cheek by jowl in metal bunk beds. Tolerance and stand your ground, you learned both. I don’t know why people make such a big out of it.
Reminds me of Michael Moore who lives in a 96% white neighborhood.
Why should these lefty limousine liberal hypocrites advise us about anything.
If living in a heavily mixed race community is so important to these airheaded liberals why did they pick one of the few remaining Hudson Valley communities that hasn't been overrun with Holders People and Moochers?
There are many (maybe too many) small Hudson Valley communities chock full of the kind of diversity they seem to miss.
Dear Melinda Wenner Moyer,
Your problem is an easy one to solve.
Sell out and move to Detroit or Dearborne.
Yes. I’ve never understood the urge for racial self-flagellation. I live amongst decent people. All else is superfluous mental masturbation.
Perhaps she should have moved to Harlem.
I can’t wait to find out what happens when the author finds out the nice couple with the sweet kids who live down the street are *GASP* Christians! And Republicans!
I’ll bet she’s so tolerant that she’ll insult the family to their faces in front of her children.
Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing.
blacks live in mostly black areas and i doubt none of them sit there thinking how “not great” it is there aren’t more non-blacks in their neighborhoods.
Although the writer may have moved to the east side of the Hudson, the first town that popped in my head is on the west side of the Hudson; Pearl River, in Rockland County. ALWAYS known as ‘Lily White Pearl River’. A lot of NYC cops and firemen live there.
The next town I thought of is Stony Point, also in Rockland County, also home to a lot of NYC PD and FD. Also pretty white still, lots of ‘Asians’ these days, and too close to Haverstraw, which homes many gangbangers and general low lifes.
THAT said, I have lived in both of these towns, for over 40 years combined.
Back in the 90’s when my kids were little I decided to replant us in Highland Falls, Orange County NY, BECAUSE of the diversity. Whites, blacks, West Pointers... I imagined a great melting pot of love and everyone singing ‘Kumbya’.
Well. That didn’t happen.
There were terrific families of all stripes, but the mayor at the time needed to stay in office, and he opened the Section 8 program and advertised in the worst places around us. And the worst people came for the free housing and the drives to the polling stations.
Everyone knew who the drug dealers were - the deals took place on Main St, in front of the Post Office and across from the Town Hall. Word was, the State Popo (known as The Ivory Tower of Albany) said ‘leave them alone, Highland Falls is drug hub and we need to know where the stuff comes from and goes to’. ..... Yeah. OK.
My kids grew up with a few nice black people, but mostly aggressive, abusive, drug dealing black people. The West Point kids were ok, but their poop didn’t stink as much as the Townies.
The black kids disrupted class and accosted one of my kids on more than one occasion, the West Pointers got all the favors, and the locals whose parents paid the insane school taxes took a back seat to it all. If I could have afforded to move back to Lily White Pearl River I would have. I am damned sorry I didn’t.
The writer of this article knew damned well where their family was moving to, and HAD to post an apologetic article about ‘Oh! The people here are so white!’.
My advice? ‘SHUT UP, and be glad you moved to nice neighborhood. Try not to screw it up’.