Letters to the Editor
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HHatchet
My children grew up in the U.S. military community, which is probably the most integrated American institution. When he went to college twenty years ago, he was amazed at the self-segregation by blacks. In dining rooms, blacks would sit at one table and whites at another. At another school, my daughter had a black roommate who basically ignored her, and while she wrote that off as, well, one of those things, she noticed that the other blacks who came into the room, also treated her with indifference.
Now this is simply an anecdote, but it shows what I was talking about. Blacks are no more immune to the herd instinct than people of any other ethnic group. I have always been surprised by the unwillingness of blacks to admit that the differences they see among white ethnic groups have any significance, or anyway that they can ever cause conflcts like those between blacks and white.