Julian Bonds Lecture on Brown vs. Board of Education :: Julian Bond Race Affirmative Action

Loose Ends Still Untied Aurora is non known to be the greatest town in the suburbs of simoleons, so it is a typical move for the people from my side of town to claim residence hall in Naperville. I will be the jump to admit that I have often betrayed my hometown and laid claim to its relatively glamorous neighbor. Naperville is star of the countrys best places to raise a family, or so I have heard. I wouldnt be too surprised, considering the enumerate of wealth that flows through the town. Naperville offers a mix of people, professionals and their families of various ethnicities and backgrounds however, it lacks true tillage diversity. Even though there are whites, blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, etc., few of its youths are intended of the various backgrounds because of the economic equality of everyone everyone is equally rich in Naperville (a headland of which I and my fellow Aurorans regularly accused our Naperville schoolmates). My high school consisted of a decent racial blend, and despite a few cultural cliques, everyone was ashen in thought and in wallet. I did not hold this catch at the time, but I had yet to be exposed to reality then. When I came to the University of Illinois, I was accompanied by a significant delineate of my high school peers, including all but two of my closest booster units. During the first few weeks of school, when everybody was meeting everybody else, I was busy hanging out with my step high school group and, thus, missed much of the opportunity to read a bounty of new friends. I did, however, meet one soul who has become my closest friend and who sparked my introduction to reality. I went to visit him all over spring break. It was a Friday, a little past noon. My friend lives roughly 75th Street, a block from Lake Michigan. For everyone who isnt from the area, I was right in the middle of a very black south side of Chicago neighborhood. When his mother found out I was co ming to do lunch, she asked him, why are you making this boy come out here? My friend responded immediately Mom, hes not afraid of black people. This was a true statement I never had feared anyone because of race, but his mother instinctively knew, unlike my friend and me, that his hometown and my hometown were polar opposites.