What Racial Tension?

By James Durga, Staff Writer
6/19/2006

So they tell us there’s a “racial tension” problem in Polk. How? The town population is 11,980 people. None of those people are black. None of those people are Hispanic. None of those people are of Asian descent or even Pacific. There are a total of seven American Indians, all of which make a living running the weekly high stakes Bingo game at the Community Center. The majority of the minorities in this town are thirteen people who are classified as “Other.” I’m thinking that must mean Middle Eastern or Indian but those ethnicities have been classified under “white” since 2001, apparently due to terrorist paranoia (and we say the government never does anything for minorities). These twenty people compose a little over one thousandth of the population, which brings us back to my question. How can there be racial tension in this town if there is virtually only one race in the town?

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