There are many reasons people use as to not doing more cross-racial socialization. Those reasons maybe being naturalizing racial isolation by stating an it is what it is attitude and instead of finding a solution individuals feel as if it is the “norm” in life. In the assigned reading Ray stated, “I don’t think there any type of prejudice involved, I just think that we really didn’t know these kids. You know what I mean? They lived in different neighborhoods, they went to different schools. And there was never any effort made to exclude, and if anything, there was effort made to cultivate these kids. Any type of discrimination in terms of anything was really just taboo at East Lansing. It wasn’t like people were trying to exclude them, it’s
