Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Movies or short videos about cohousing (Malin Hansen)

[Ann Zabaldo (zabaldo]

Sharon and all – –

I wonder how often these very arguments are used when talking about social 
justice issues?

For instance one of my favorites is:  when asked about providing a ramp for 
people with wheelchairs the answer often is -- we don't have any disabled 
people in our community. Yep that's true. And you never will. 

While many areas of the country may not have the density of nonwhites that 
Washington DC has truly you can't be telling me that there are so few 
minorities in your community that reaching out to them would prove 
statistically pointless?  

I'm not buying that argument. 

Ann Zabaldo
Takomavillage cohousing
Washington DC 



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> On Apr 12, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] 
> sharonvillines.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 12, 2015, at 9:41 AM, Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I don't see how we're ever going to get any racial diversity into cohousing 
>> if we continue to produce information that is targeted to and shows only 
>> white people. 
>> 
>> But… Maybe were not committed to racial diversity. Who am I to say?
> 
> In the archives, there is a post I wrote on my history with alternative 
> organizations and minorities. For a minority person to join a minority 
> organization doubles the minority status.
> 
> And in many areas, certainly not all, the percentage of people who have 
> minority status is very low. Add that percentage to the percentage of people 
> interested in cohousing and ..... I don't know how to add percentages but you 
> get the point. There aren't options everywhere.
> 
> There are many other forms of diversity than just race -- which is a fairly 
> meaningless definition of people anyway. Skin color is pretty much as close 
> as you can get to defining race without a DNA test. Is skin color is a 
> meaningful definition of diversity.
> 
> We do have the EHO icon on the website, but it emphasizes that we are 
> "housing" which is something some people don't like to talk about because 
> cohousing means community, not real estate. It's a two edged sword.
> 
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Sociocracy: A Deeper Democracy
> http://www.sociocracy.info
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