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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those loving St. Louis, do you find it very racially polarized? I think about Ferguson and wonder what it’s like there for people who aren’t white. [/quote]

Good question. We are white, so I cannot really answer that. My husband works for Barnes Jewish, which is where we have made most of our friends, so our cohort is uniquely diverse, since there are so many people from other countries and backgrounds due to working in an academic hospital setting. In terms of black-white relations, we all know St. Louis has problems. There are unique structural problems / historical events that make segregation and inequality worse here than elsewhere. If you don't know where you're going, there are some horribly blighted areas right next to "nice" areas (and even more blighted areas away from nice areas). But my experience (which again is a unique experience, in that we sought out the more progressive bubble part of St. Louis), is that while I never had a black classmate growing up, my kids have black friends, their Assistant Principal is black, they have black kids on their sports teams and in their girl scout troops, they have had black teachers, etc. My husband and I also have black friends, whereas I only ever had one black friend before moving here. So in my case, my kids are growing up with more racial (and socioeconomic) diversity than I did. I guess it's just because there are more black people here overall, percentage-wise.

One generalization I can make is that I think there is more recognition of racism, rather than pretending that there is no racism/less racism than in other places, as compared to NY (especially in Nassau County but also in Westchester and NYC itself). Working class areas struggle more with racism, but that is 
 true anywhere IME. [/quote]

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