Richard Benjamin

With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members,…

— Richard Benjamin

If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey…

— Richard Benjamin

The reason our country looks the way it does is through social engineering that distinctly benefits suburban communities, exurban communities, and often…

— Richard Benjamin

I was surprised by how forces in the community could mobilize against a community changing. There were many examples of this. In…

— Richard Benjamin

It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in…

— Richard Benjamin

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…

— Richard Benjamin

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.

— Richard Benjamin

In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still…

— Richard Benjamin

People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that,…

— Richard Benjamin

I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black…

— Richard Benjamin

Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that…

— Richard Benjamin

Problem with segregation isn't that people can't live in peaceful harmony singing "Kumbaya" - although that wouldn't be bad. The problem is…

— Richard Benjamin

I had been hearing on-the-ground buzz that white folks were moving to places like Bend, Oregon, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and St.…

— Richard Benjamin

Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah.

— Richard Benjamin

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think…

— Richard Benjamin

By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority.

— Richard Benjamin

I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.

— Richard Benjamin

I hope we have American-topias.

— Richard Benjamin

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there…

— Richard Benjamin