In my own experience as a racial and economic minority in the West Side neighborhood of North Lawndale, where I lived and worked for more than a decade, I found most white people at a loss as to how to talk with my family about living there. The most common comment we received from well-meaning progressives was "It's so great that you're raising your kids in such a diverse environment." North Lawndale — which is majority African-American and low-income — is many things, but it is not diverse. Yet for many whites, the word "diverse" is a stand-in for "not white." We don't even have the language to talk about race, let alone examine our own limitations.