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A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

— Saul Alinsky

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The black community sees itself as one group, and they are all experiencing the same experiences as a group with racism and whatnot, growing up in this country.

— Andrea Navedo

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

— Wentworth Miller

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

— H. Rap Brown

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

— Ed Smith

It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community. On the other side, I have five brothers and sisters; we all look exactly the same, and we're very, very tight. The lessons about race were not pleasant, but there are things that I loved about my childhood.

— Soledad O'Brien

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

— Ed Smith

It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

— George Lopez

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up in an all-white community.

— Gayle King

As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.

— Randall Kennedy

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

— Randall Kennedy