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What You Can Do About Racial Prejudice In Housing Page 20

does not normally judge new neighbors on the basis of whether or not they would make good in-laws, it seems unrealistic to judge new Negro members of the community on this basis. Moreover, today, young people do not select mates from among those living in the immediate vicinity, but rather from among those they meet in a much wider range of interrelationships...at school, at work, at church or club. While there is undoubtedly a trend in this country towards more mixed marriages, the rate remains very low and is not likely to be accelerated by integrated housing.[12, 13]
All major religious movements, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish, have adopted policies and resolutions opposed to racial segregation, and all have been very actively engaged in the battle for open housing.
Many states and cities have adopted anti-discrimination laws, and now, with the President's executive order, the Federal Government makes integration a requirement for state and local governments using federal funds in public housing construction.
Every reputable authority who has studied the causes and effects of racial prejudice and segregation agrees that their continuation constitutes a drain on America's human and economic resources that our nation can ill-afford to suffer.
Is it bad to have "mixed-up" neighborhoods? No. It is bad not to have mixed-up neighborhoods: bad economically, morally, socially and ethically.
HOW TO DEAL WITH PREJUDICE
To this point, we have been concerned with the background factors that give rise to prejudice, and the social
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does not normally judge new neighbors on the basis of whether or not they would make good in-laws, it seems unrealistic to judge new Negro members of the community on this basis. Moreover, today, young people do not select mates from among those living in the immediate vicinity, but rather from among those they meet in a much wider range of interrelationships...at school, at work, at church or club. While there is undoubtedly a trend in this country towards more mixed marriages, the rate remains very low and is not likely to be accelerated by integrated housing.[12, 13] All major religious movements, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish, have adopted policies and resolutions opposed to racial segregation, and all have been very actively engaged in the battle for open housing. Many states and cities have adopted anti-discrimination laws, and now, with the President's executive order, the Federal Government makes integration a requirement for state and local governments using federal funds in public housing construction. Every reputable authority who has studied the causes and effects of racial prejudice and segregation agrees that their continuation constitutes a drain on America's human and economic resources that our nation can ill-afford to suffer. Is it bad to have "mixed-up" neighborhoods? No. It is bad not to have mixed-up neighborhoods: bad economically, morally, socially and ethically. HOW TO DEAL WITH PREJUDICE To this point, we have been concerned with the background factors that give rise to prejudice, and the social 20