wasn’t for me, and it just wasn’t who I was. I valued science, and I valued different living experiences, and I believed I valued the true equality of all races. A community built on non-credentialed value—place, faith, and race—didn’t work for me and excluded me. It excluded and excludes many, many others in far worse ways, many in the neighborhood I was now standing in. My hometown was still deeply segregated and divided by race. Sure, New York City was racially divided; sure, my wealthy neighborhood in Brooklyn
