Indeed.

The board will never be the same.

Pics or GTFO

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Saugansh Park...always trying to bootstrap on to Sauganash for upward mobility.

But seriously, the Saugansh Park I have always known is almost 100% orthodox jewish. I think you are overstating the state of things.

Backing up your point, I didn't experience any kind of racial disharmony until I gained friends from Rogers Park but I agree there is a certain harmony to the whole neighborhood that I have always liked. This is why I have never really thought of North as racist. He says ignorant racial things but that is common where he lived. I also think he lived, worked and socialized perfectly well

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I made sure to use "Park" in explaining where I was from just for you. I'm not a big shot like dolphin. No rubbing elbows with Bill and Bernie for me. I know my place.

I can't really speak to what it's like now, but when I was growing up there were no J-ews, Orthodox or otherwise, in Sauganash Park. If you crossed Pulaski heading east, Solomon School had its share of Jewish kids. You had to get past Kedzie before you began seeing the black hats.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

A complete overhaul of the prison system has to occur too. Paying all this money for a place that seems to exist only to make sure everyone goes right back in when they get out is idiotic, plus the obvious human rights violations.

Anything following these words can be safely ignored.

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

A culture has to do with language, religion, music, fashion, values, social norms, gender roles, etc. People can and do accept differences but how much it is intertwined with their life is at their comfort level. Cultures vary...work, school, neighborhood, status. Sometimes you conform, sometimes it's not worth it.

You conformed at your old job. If you'd have substitued my husband in your work story it probably would have been the same. He'd have gotten looks. When I first started woking it was with mostly white men. I wore dark colors or grey and mostly suits. When I did not I got looks and was treated differently. The next place I worked was with mostly black women. One of them asked me after a few months why I dressed like an old white man. I realized I didn't fit in so I had to add more feminine pieces and color. I think I was accepted there, probably better than with the men. But both noticed when I stepped outside the fashion culture of that group. I also am treated differently if I'm fat or thin, dressed up or look like a slob. I'm convinced there are mom friends I'm not close with because of how I used to dress. I'm closer with them now that I have done some updating.

I have family and friends I don't agree with culturally but I love and accept them, I don't know that I would if they weren't family and friends. I'd think they were weirdos like I think their friends are weirdos. It's judgemental, but not full of hatred. I don't involve myself nor do I really care.

Exposing kids to people that aren't like them is a good idea but I'd suspect ultimately they will start sticking with what is like them at some point.

I think that is the biggest problem and you can't go around it. Out of the 15 or so women I worked with I think 1 was still married and maybe only 3 dads were involved in the kids' lives. I don't know that you can have success without that.

JORR hits on the economic status. That I think is the biggest cultural influence, because typically you have most of the same values or lead similiar lives. Most look the same and have the same and the other differences aren't as influential.