Posted on 11/26/2017 3:31:43 PM PST by MAGA2017
VALLEJO, Calif. — Beyond the burgers and fries coming from the kitchen and the oldies blaring from the radio, the scene playing out daily at the Original Red Onion might appear unfamiliar to much of the country.
The restaurant’s married owners — Marissa Johnson, a Filipino-American, and Darryl Johnson, an African-American — work alongside Jahira Fragozo, who is of Miskito and Yaqui Indian descent. Ms. Johnson bonds with a customer, Hillory Robinson, who is black, over the challenges of motivating their children in the winter. “They need something to do,” Ms. Robinson says.
Ms. Johnson gushes a short time later when a regular, Dylan Habegger, who is white, decides to tackle the restaurant’s new, spicy creation with a name that describes its effect. “Uh oh,” Ms. Johnson tells him, “you’re trying the Burner today.”
The Original Red Onion sits in one of the country’s most racially diverse ZIP codes: 94591, in Vallejo, Calif. About 30 miles north of Oakland, it is the rare place in the United States where black, white, Asian and Hispanic people not only coexist in nearly equal numbers, but actually connect.
At a time when race often still defines where people live and attend school, and the battles between alt-right and Antifa, nativist and immigrant, continue to rage, this Bay Area suburb of 120,000 can seem like a respite from the divided nation. Pick any two people out of this ZIP code, and there is a 76 percent chance they are a different race or ethnicity — and odds are they’ll be comfortable talking to each other.
“The gift about being in close proximity is that you’re desensitized to seeing a different culture and judging it right away,” said Lena Yee-Ross, a 17-year-old high school senior whose mother is Chinese-American and father is black.
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They’re no longer capable of reporting on much else.
America’s Most Diverse ZIP Codes - Ghettoville?
Surely San Francisco must encompass at least one of “America’s Most Diverse ZIP Codes.”
Diverse zip code 33224477
Racists are people who are obsessed with race, such as the editors of the New York Slimes.
Vallejo was listed 4th in California’s most dangerous cities in 2016
Race race race race race race race race race race race race race race race.
Low overhead Vallejo.....always under water
Good old NYT. “Whites are inherently inferior to blacks, and we white liberals at the New York Times are noble and self-effacing for admitting it.”
Superficial characteristics.
The left has always been interested in these.
What your skin color is.
Whose got what sexual parts.
Leftist views on equality are the BMI of societal engineering.
Starting from multiple flawed assumptions, it’s not only specious, but just flat out wrong, as well as being racist and sexist at the same time.
Lena Yee Ross is going to identify as black or African American, when it comes to college application time. She will not admit to having Chinese ancestry, because race and ethnicity obsessed college admissions people discriminate against Asian ethnicities.
And that is among the absurdities we find in today’s world of racial and ethnic identities overriding other concerns.
Income, not race. Where do you think rich Black people live? The hood? Not unless they are drug dealers. Jeremiah Wright is the only Black guy in his neighborhood.
Vallejo had a muder rate almost as high as Chicago in 2015: 14.8 vs 17.5 per 100,000.
It’s only a matter of time until someone moves out.
Now here’s a diverse city with low crime. San Jose CA is 35% Asian, 32% Hispanic, 26% White and 3% Black. It had a murder rate of 2.9 per 100,000 in 2015.
I think the NYT writer is full of it. I used to live 20 miles from Vallejo. I stayed away from it as much as possible. I always thought the west side of I-80 was kind of a ghetto. East of I-80, was much better, but I never liked going there. Too dangerous.
Same with NPR. For the past 20 years at least, everyday, every newscast, and every news show — "Poor little Darl'carius! Poor little La'Quisha! Poor little Maria Jesus de Montana!".
Then NPR hits you with the flip side "Horrible heartless Republicans! Horrible heartless White People! Horrible, dangerous White Men! Bad, evil corporations!".
They do this every flippin day, 365 days per year, every hour of the day. It's a perpetual, endless drone, on, and on, and on.
The worst is NPR is paying for it with YOUR tax dollars.
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