Re: Cohousing's Diversity Problem - CityLab
From: Ann Zabaldo (zabaldoearthlink.net)
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 08:07:48 -0700 (PDT)
I guess I'm missing an email that addressed this issue.  I didn't see any email 
about addresses anything other than racial diversity.

Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington DC

Sent from my iPhone
All typos ... curtesy of Siri  :-)

> On Aug 12, 2017, at 10:21 AM, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I can't speak for Alan but I will say that each time racial diversity
> comes up we (cohousers on this list) move quickly to "but these
> primarily white communities have lots of other diversity". Which is
> completely true.
> 
> But we certainly won't attract racial diversity if to live here is to
> live with people who defend our racial self-segregation in that way.
> 
> We *could* start with..."Yes, its true, we do not have racial
> diversity." And then get out, join groups that include significant
> people of color, and then get to know some of those people and as we
> develop friendships we could then engage in discussions as to what we
> could do differently. Its an eleven year plan, which I realize is not
> very exciting.
> 
> -Liz
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> 
>> wrote:
>> Totally lost me here Alan on your comment.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> All typos ... curtesy of Siri  :-)
>> 
>>> On Aug 12, 2017, at 9:41 AM, Alan O'Hashi via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] 
>>> cohousing.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> the conversation is lapsing into the easier discussion about various shades 
>>> of white ...
>>> 
>>> Alan O'Hashi - Cyber Office
>>> Views from Behind the Lens
>>> www.alanohashi.com
>>> Colorado..303-910-5782
>>> Wyoming.307-274-1910
>>> Nebraska.402-327-1652
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> -Liz
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