Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Accepting/rejecting members , & Diversity..

[Rob Sandelin (Exchange) (Robsan]

Good luck. Diversity in skin color is only one kind of diversity, and
not a very significant one in my opinion. If you have a rainbow of
colors, but everyone on the inside is the same, do you really have
diversity? 

>Original Message-----
Sent:           Tuesday, June 18, 1996 10:49 AM
Subject:        Accepting/rejecting members ,  & Diversity..

One goal of our group is diversity.  One member has, I believe, taken 
this to an extreme and is suggesting that when a white household joins, 
that the next household accepted be of color.  My initial reaction is 
that this sounds distastegul, intolerant, unworkable, and possibly 
illiegal - other than that, it sound OK  :-).

Any experience dealing with this or a similar issue?

Thanks,
Mitch Darer
Rockland Sustainable Community (New York State)
darer [at] admin.njit.edu