What Is Diversity?

While sitting in a Pigtown bar recently, the guy next to us started telling us how he’s lived in Pigtown his whole life and that he’s proud of that fact because it’s the most diverse neighborhood in Baltimore. He used the bar just two corners down from the one we were sitting in as an example:

“Youz should see (the bar) up tha street. Dey got all kinds in’nair. Nobahdy don’t bother nobahdy in’nair. Dey got mix-race couples. Dey got some homuhseksyules in’nair too. Dey even a coupla Russian guys. Nobahdy cares in’nair as long as youz don’t get too loud or too drunk.”
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Having conversations like this with my barstool neighbor is why I can’t quit this city.