The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Let me give my readers a brief description of my background when it comes to where I've lived. I have never lived in the country, lived in the city for approximately three years and have resided in what is known as suburbia for twenty-seven years. With each year that passes, suburbia bothers me more than the previous one. What bothers me? Let me count the ways. 1. No diversity- It's like in any play, commercial, film or school anymore, there's the one "token black guy" and that's it. There might be a couple Hispanics or Asians spread out here and there, but the majority are white and I'm not talking the regular majority. In the United States, whities make up approximately 70-80% of the population. In suburbia, one can up that percentage to 90-95%. Suburbia seems to be the place that Anglo-Americans ran off to when people of different ethnic backgrounds gained some rights. There's only one African-American living in my neighborhood (that I can think...