SurvivingSara

Tag: Diversity

  • Life in Color

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    Sara Z
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    One of the whitest areas in the country is where I grew up. The racial makeup of the city where I lived in 1980, as well as changes in the population since 1970, is seen below. So, you see; I was not exaggerating when I described this area as one of the whitest in the…

  • Owning My Bias

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    Sara Z
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    Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, very near Idaho, we heard white supremacists and satanic worshippers were living no more than 20 miles from where we were. To my high school friends and I, it felt like an urban legend. Of course, it would have been a rural legend because, if they were actually there,…