Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Tatum referenced this essay in her book. I had read it before, and it definitely made me think. While I have not experienced a lot of what she talks about (for example I have never tried to buy a house), some of the statements were thought-provoking. For example, the colors of band-aids are supposedly meant to represent flesh, but are white (I looked up whether there is still a flesh toned crayon and there was but it was renamed peach in 1962).