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THE_DESTRUCTION_OF_COMMUNITY

                                             July 30, 2007

  Instead of learning to live together,
  suburbanites were sold on a vision of
  "white flight", abandoning the cities
  to minorities.

  They try to live their lives
  sealed away from unplanned
  encounters -- driving from              After they achieve this dream of
  box to box inside of a box.             insulation, they often don't even
                                          know their next door neighbors, let
                                          alone know what's going on in the
    The urban dweller riding public       next block.
    transit may not even talk to        
    their fellow passengers much,            For a people living like this
    but I think that regularly               to develop a sense of community
    sitting in the same space with           is a near impossiblity.
    people of different classes and     
    races makes it much harder for      
    someone else to demonize them:      
                                        
        They may not be people     
        like you, but they're
        clearly people.






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