That's not what I said. I love hip hop, from def jux to top 40 stuff... "Urban" neighborhoods just limit the experience to hip hop, when I want my kid to have a disco-soul-ska-electro-indie-funk- and classical upbringing. Ever walk into a record store in Jamaica, Queens? You're not going to find U2's Joshua Tree there, or even the good hip hop... "Skeet skeet skeet" will be blasting from a parent's trunk during morning drop off, I guarantee it. The experience is just very myopic, and I understand it's no one's fault.. It is what it is. I'm a more interesting person because my immigrant parents scrubbed toilets to send me to a school where I'd be exposed to proper grammer and The Cure (and Nas). And had friends I could and assorted pretentious lovely assholes who made my childhood more interesting talking about film and art and baseball and comics - I really enjoyed having a mix around me. Maybe I take it more personally because I look very african american, the fact that I carry myself 'upper middle class Catholic School raised' vs 'inner city public school' probably has saved me from a lot of unnecessary profiling. In fact, I've been pulled over plenty but get sent away with a handshake more often than not because I was taught properly.. It's "social" but not trivial to me. I know, I'm doing the opposite of what most people here are telling me to do. I get it, I'm a pretentious, bigot asshole - I'm ok with that as long as my kids are in constructive, positive environments.
I know, I want to have it all and don't like "true diversity and all it's sores," and I understand I'm a hypocrite being a minority afraid of a minority majority. I want every group possible to be represented, and for education and discipline to be the number 1 priority with kids and parents who WANT to be there. It's a big difference to me, and worth the 10 grand it's going to cost.. Oye.. Heck, it means that I take my job search from neutral to "holy fuck, get a job you slacker!" This isn't something I'm taking lightly.