However, when it comes to the gossip and friendship that goes around at the table, she probably prefers to hear it in a language that she understands. And she’s probably used to eating potato salad and apple pie instead of rice and coconut deserts beause that’s what she grew up on.

You have a chip on your shoulder when it comes to racism. She’s a retired lady that’s moved to an older folks home type retirement community that’s probably gated, has lower property costs and more amenities than she has access to here, and where she feels safer than living in an expensive detached single family home by herself.

She probably did an immigrant family a favor by clearing out and leaving a nice home in a community with relatively good schools where her own kids probably couldn’t afford to live. And they did a favor to her by funding part of her retirement living costs with what they paid for the house.

Jeez, I am so sick of hearing old white people called “racists’ by the new people moving in. They all don’t make life decision based on who they are afraid of moving in next door.

They might be aloof . They are as stunned by the changes occurring here, and have increasingly little room to maneuver financially or physically. It’s hard for them to understand the incredible variety of foreign accents, but they try. They didn’t grow up with Rosetta Stone and the easy way to learn foreign languanges. It’s very hard to adopt new ways when you are old.

A little compassion, please.

You’ve dug quite the hole for yourself, Rick. As you said “the racism AND irony” of Rick Muncie.

“Sharing her culture.” WTF does that mean besides racism? That sounds pretty racist to me. Besides, there are plenty of white people in Union City. AND it’s a melting pot, but Ms. Israel can’t appreciate that so she moved to Brentwood…where she plays mah-jongg. Ahh the racism AND irony.

Certainly NOT RACIST in my book.

“at Barbara Israel’s mah-jongg table”

Mah-jongg??? Obviously Ms. Israel didn’t try hard enough to socialize with the asians in the tri-city area, otherwise she could be up to her eyeballs in mah-jongg without moving to *Brentwood* of all places. Racist.