Tonight during dinner my family and i began telling stories about when my sister and i were younger. One story came up about my older sister asking a very innocent question after we moved from Evanston to Wilmette. We had moved from a school with a 60:40 ratio of white people to black people, to a school where you could count all the black students on one hand. The question she asked is, "where are all the black people?" My parents had a hard time explaining the answer to a six year old "color blind" child. My parents tried to explain to both me and my sister the reasoning but we could not understand why. They told that certain groups of people liked to live in neighborhoods with other people of their group. I was puzzled by this statement but went along with it because i agreed with whatever my parents said. i now am older and more aware of differences in class and its relation to race. People like to live in nieghborhoods around people with a similar socio-economic status.
