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To: SirRealist who wrote (20029)	2/26/2002 8:23:55 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Having travelled extensively throughout the US over the past 30 years, I see much less race hatred. I haven't traveled much during the past thirty years but some portion of it, I lived in a small central Pennsylvania town, dominated by a private university. When my family and I moved there in the middle 70s, the level of animosity of whites against blacks was quite strong even though there were precious few blacks around. A black colleague of mine had children very close in ages to our own. Those kids had a terrible time in the local schools. We moved away, to the suburbs of NYC in the early 80s but I continued to teach there. My colleagues tell me that has all gone away. Blacks serve on community boards, on municipal councils, a small but effective group to improve relations between whites and blacks disbanded for lack of work. That's slight and anecdotal and, moreover, reflects the very active involvement of elements of the university in the small town. But it certainl does not show an increase in race hatred. I certainly don't see that in the northern Jersey suburbs, at least in newspapers, etc. I should hastily add, I don't wish to argue it's not there. It certainly is. Just not increased; and perhaps decreased. The most evidence signs of race hatred I hear are from well placed national politicans trying to hide behind clearly racially provocative slogans. John