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...selected were Deborah Amos, 40, London-based correspondent for National Public Radio; Marcus W. Brauchli, 29, Tokyo correspondent for The Wall Street Journal; George deLama, 34, Washington-based chief diplomatic correspondent for the Chicago Tribune; and Seth Effrom, 38, state capital correspondent for the Greensboro News & Record...
Even when it's not a question of race, race is always a question. A school- merger debate is raging, with race the stumbling block. Guilford County residents, whose school system is 81% white, are resisting entreaties to merge with Greensboro (51% black) and High Point (50% black) schools. Greensboro delayed significant desegregation and busing for years, and now many parents -- black and white -- wonder whether the mixing has worked. "I'm not saying integration was wrong," says Greensboro councilwoman Alma Adams, who is black, "but it did cause a lot of problems we didn't think about...
...they do across the nation, economic class divisions further complicate racial rifts, with wealth filling the gaps and poverty widening them. The average black family in Greensboro makes about two-thirds of what a typical white family brings in, and, while the city's jobless rate is only 3.4%, the unemployment rate for blacks is about three times as high as it is for whites. "It's still a legacy of race, but it's written about more in terms of class," says Robert Davis, a sociology professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University...
...certainly does. And what it reflects pains Jim Schlosser, a veteran reporter on race for the Greensboro News & Record. "In the 1960s," says Schlosser, "when we talked about a color-blind society, we thought we'd party together, we'd live on the same block. But maybe our expectations were unrealistic. Maybe we are a separate society." Perhaps whites have been too paternalistic, too insensitive, too impatient. Maybe blacks have been overly sensitive, too defensive, too race conscious. Both sides are paralyzed by confusion; neither fully understands the other...
Until the minds meet, the perception gap will widen, and some predict that unless festering tensions subside, violence may again erupt in Greensboro. , Even today the Klan shootings linger like a bad dream. In 1960 the sit-ins worked, but today the problems are too complex to solve simply...