With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members,… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
The reason our country looks the way it does is through social engineering that distinctly benefits suburban communities, exurban communities, and often white residents.… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
I was surprised by how forces in the community could mobilize against a community changing. There were many examples of this. In St. George,… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue,… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that is unaffected… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
Problem with segregation isn't that people can't live in peaceful harmony singing "Kumbaya" - although that wouldn't be bad. The problem is that many… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
