Hemmschwelle t1_j5rt6d7 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 2:45 AM

I've no first hand experience. I suggest taking a close look at Rutland. It is a reasonable commute to Killington even in the winter. It has internet. It has some Bipoc. It has some housing.

Due to extreme housing shortage in most of the state, your choices will be extremely limited.

WRT prejudice. It speaks well of the state that a lot of people here honestly admit that prejudice is real, that they hold some, that they make mistakes, and that they are trying to not be prejudiced. This is much better than people who insist that we live in a race and gender blind culture (we have people like that here too). One root of the problem in Vermont is that so many people have so very little interaction with BIPOC. Welcome! Your moving to Vermont may be part of what moves Vermont forward.

whaletacochamp t1_j5u0bts wrote on January 25, 2023 at 3:46 PM

>One root of the problem in Vermont is that so many people have so very little interaction with BIPOC

As a lifelong vermonter this is a huge part of the problem. The result is well intended people being overtly racist without realizing what they are doing. It's like they see BIPOC and HAVE to act different to prove how not racist they are. And in the end they are basically just being racist.

For instance my grandmother is a pretty open minded person, would never intentionally be overtly racist, loves her BIPOC neighbors, but every time she meets someone with a skin tone slightly darker than hers she just HAS to ask "where are you from!?" - and when they so "oh, Michigan!" she goes "but, like originally?" and understandably people are like "uhhh I mean my ancestors were brought here as slaves, so...."

So i see a lot of that. Racism wrapped in kindness and ignorance.

[deleted] OP t1_j5ungow wrote on January 25, 2023 at 6:10 PM

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stacey1771 t1_j5v59mu wrote on January 25, 2023 at 7:58 PM

> One root of the problem in Vermont is that so many people have so very little interaction with BIPOC

YES, this is REAL!

So decades old story - I went to camp with POCs, bussed in from NJ . They did their best to put an even ## of POCs with us white kids. Now, this story occurs just before 4th grade - two girls in my cabin and I had just finished swimming - they were talking about wondering if they had gotten a tan. I'm like, "y'all get tans?" - SERIOUSLY had no clue! I'm much better now, really!