Then I’m hopeful that your experience will be our experience.

Is there a significant Black family presence in the P. Palisades now? I’m familiar with the area and my recollection is that there isn’t. That’s not a recent recollection so perhaps things have changed. A few thoughts here:

One, people tend to see themselves as more inclusive than they are — and that’s not a White thing; it’s a people thing. So, fingers crossed.

Two, one with no objection to living with Black neighbors doesn’t translate to, and isn’t an indicator of, whether they harbor the anger I speak of here. We won’t really know the answer to that question until they are faced with the experience.

For example, I could be completely fine living with green neighbors. Still might piss me off that they “get” “affirmative action” college admissions, or are an "affirmative action” hire, or they can say “green is beautiful” and I can’t or they can call me “greenist” and I can’t call them “racist” or that they “get help” with home loans and I can’t, and on and on with the millions of other factually void excuses I hear angry White people use to explain why they are “validly” angry. It’s pretty hard to draw a direct line from “in theory, we would be inclusive neighbors” and “therefore, we are not angry.”

Still, I appreciate your point.

Overall, my thinking is this: if you (person or group or neighborhood) don’t have a problem, then we (me and person, me and group, me and neighborhood) don’t have a problem. And I think that’s pretty standard among us, and I think we’re all simply interested in getting on with the business of living.