Is Highland Park racist? (Dallas, University Park: 2009, broker, college)

[rosscountry]

thats too bad for HP if it is racist. As Dallas continues to attract top talent from across the country new people coming in that are leaving towns similar to HP will have no problem moving in which will help HP inch forward in its diversity. Maybe at that point the left over racist people will move out and move to a far away mountain.
Only a matter of time.

[FarNorthDallas]

Oh, and be sure and call up Dallas Country Club and see how many black members they have.

The Preston Hollow Elementary thing is interesting to me because I am familiar with it. This is a Dallas school, not a Highland Park school, but Preston Hollow is just north of University Park. The segregation going on there went on for a long time. They had a white kindergarten round up, a white open house, but the word they used instead of white was "neighborhood" because the neighborhood is full of million dollar plus homes. The minority kids were bused in.

They were really trying hard to get the neighborhood families to take their kids out of private school and put them in Preston Hollow and the only way they could do that was to convince the neighborhood families that it was a mostly white school. At the time it was a third white, a third black and a third Hispanic (it's not anymore). And the teachers matched it. The black kids had a black teacher and the white kids had a white teacher and the Hispanic kids had a Hispanic teacher. One of the Hispanic classes met in the church across the street where my child went to daycare. One time when the Hispanic class was walking across the street to their classroom in the church this Highland Park mom dropping their kid off at daycare said to the black daycare teacher, "Oh look there are my future maids."

And this isn't the only way schools find ways to segregate kids. Some schools can segregate the blacks out by offiering dual language classes, where the class is taught in alternating English and Spanish. White parents love to put their kids in these classes. Blacks parents don't put their kids in these classes. You end up with a white class with a few bright Hispanics and no blacks.

And there used to be a high school where the white girls were cheerleaders for the football team and black girls were cheerleaders for the basketball team. I don't know if that still goes on.

So, racism is alive and well, although to me now it seems to be more targeted at Hispanics (pronounced "illegal" whether they are illegal or not) than African-Americans. My son has one black kid in his grade at school and the child is a celebrity. The kids are so fascinated with him. He's very very popular just for being black.

[xen0blue]

It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with money. Yes, it is a conservative area but it is also a very educated and rich area. If you have money, you will be respected.

[Shamika_Pride]

I'm a black woman who lives in University Park. Other than someone thinking I was trying to break into my husband's Lexus parked in front of our house....no, I don't think you'll encounter any racism. And although that experience pissed me off, it was sunset, and I was strugging with the key.

It's 2008, we need to get over this stuff and move on.

[Texsez]

.........based on your data assumption.
U start a thread like that because white people merely live there?
U'r Princeton edjumacated lol?
Must not be many white folk at that school. Ivy keeps'em out.

[theloneranger]

Originally Posted by Texsez

.........based on your data assumption.
U start a thread like that because white people merely live there?
U'r Princeton edjumacated lol?
Must not be many white folk at that school. Ivy keeps'em out.

BTW This thread is 9 months old.

[MuscogeeButterfly]

Originally Posted by Philip T

Well, the truth be told, we have some "interesting" stories to tell from riding bikes in the South side of Dallas.

But the thing with the bike -- as opposed to a car -- is that it gets you outside the steel-and-glass cocoon of a car. Let's you hear and smell and "feel" an area.

Do you suppose you can get pulled over for a DWB in Highland Park while on a bike?

Fabulous point, your last sentence...hmmmm. LOL.

[compSciGuy]

^ I know a previous neighbor (who is African American) that was pulled over while riding his bicycle in Santa Clara, California.

[ldrrh]

My mother, a Ph.D, was in search of a house here in Dallas, moving from Atlanta, GA. The realtor was so very nice and had excellent communication over the phone. She quoted my mother the price over the phone and stated that the owners were eager to meet her and the house had been on the market for a while. Well, when my mother got here and went to meet the realtor, the realtor was shocked. She then stated that she needed to get back with the owners, that she believed someone had already put in paperwork and claimed that they had some extra work done ,which will up the price of the house. Needless to say, my mother did not "sound" like a black person over the phone and the realtor obviously assumed she was not. My mother did not purchase the house and reported the realtor who was released from the company she was with because my mother threatened to sue. I believe HP has a problem with blacks, no matter what your educational background.

[LAnative10]

Im white and there is no way on God's great earth that I would ever entertain the idea of living in the Park Cities. If I were a minority, I would really not entertain the idea when there are so many diverse areas of Dallas that are friendly to people of all races and walks of life.