Posted on 03/15/2011 11:09:17 AM PDT by jazusamo
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San Francisco's irrepressible former mayor, Willie Brown, was walking along one of the city's streets when he happened to run into another former city official that he knew, James McCray. McCray's greeting to him was "You're 10." "What are you talking about?" Willie Brown asked. McCray replied: "I just walked from Civic Center to Third Street and you're only the 10th black person I've seen." That is hardly surprising. The black population of San Francisco is less than half of what it was in 1970, and it fell another 19 percent in the past decade. A few years ago, I had a similar experience in one of the other communities further down the San Francisco peninsula. As I was bicycling down the street, I saw a black man waiting at a bus stop. As I approached him, he said, "You're the first black man I have seen around here in months!" "It will be months more before you see another one," I replied, and we both laughed. Actually, it was no laughing matter. Blacks are being forced out of San Francisco, and out of other communities on the San Francisco peninsula, by high housing prices. At one time, housing prices in San Francisco were much like housing prices elsewhere in the country. But the building restrictions and outright bans resulting from the political crusades of environmentalist zealots sent housing prices skyrocketing in San Francisco, San Jose and most of the communities in between. Housing prices in these communities soared to about three times the national average. The black population in three adjacent counties on the San Francisco peninsula is just under 3 percent of the total population in the 39 communities in those counties. It so happens that these are counties where the voters and the officials they elect are virtually all liberal Democrats. You might be hard pressed to find similarly one-sided conservative Republican communities where blacks are such small percentages of the population. Certainly that would be hard to find in states with a substantial total population of blacks. In California, a substantial black population has simply been forced by economics to vacate many communities near the coast and move farther inland, where the environmental zealots are not yet as strong politically, and where housing prices are therefore not yet as unaffordable. With all the Republican politicians' laments about how overwhelmingly blacks vote for Democrats, I have yet to hear a Republican politician publicly point out the harm to blacks from such policies of the Democrats as severe housing restrictions, resulting from catering to environmental extremists. If the Republicans did point out such things as building restrictions that make it hard for most blacks to afford housing, even in places where they once lived, they would have the Democrats at a complete disadvantage. It would be impossible for the Democrats to deny the facts, not only in coastal California but in similar affluent strongholds of liberal Democrats around the country. Moreover, environmental zealots are such an important part of the Democrats' constituencies that Democratic politicians could not change their policies. Although Republicans would have a strong case, none of that matters when they don't make the case in the first place. The same is true of the effects of minimum wage laws on the high rate of unemployment among black youths. Again, the facts are undeniable, and the Democrats cannot change their policy, because they are beholden to labor unions that advocate higher minimum wages. Yet another area in which Democrats are boxed in politically is their making job protection for members of teachers' unions more important than improving education for students in the public schools. No one loses more from this policy than blacks, for many of whom education is their only chance for economic advancement. But none of this matters so long as Republicans who want the black vote think they have to devise earmarked benefits for blacks, instead of explaining how Republicans' general principles, applied to all Americans, can do more for blacks than the Democrats' welfare state approach. |
The dirty little secret of whitey liberals... few can stomach the idea of living in the company of minorities.
What was it LBJ said about the black vote?
“If the Republicans did point out such things as building restrictions that make it hard for most blacks to afford housing, even in places where they once lived, they would have the Democrats at a complete disadvantage.”
NO, they wouldn’t. The minorities are brain washed to believe everything conservatives say is racist and a lie.
Ditto - truth be told, and as is demonstrated in SF,
white libs will do all they can to avoid living around “diverse cultures”.
Is this because the affluence of blacks in this area is somehow underrepresented/undercut by specific policy? I mean... what is the corollary to this? Is there a specific reason blacks are moving out or can’t afford these neighborhoods other than liberal policy that doesn’t seem to affect other races so much? Is there racism inherent that supposedly keeps blacks out? I’m curious about Sowell’s reasoning, because it seems as though there are some underpinnings here that aren’t being fleshed out properly.
He is going to be so surprised when I tell him he is black.
Thanks for the ping jaz. The Libs abuse our lives simply by their existance. Everything costs more, lives are disrupted, and nothing is in balance.
Just think IF they were a majority!
I've added this to my favorite quotes on FB: "Democrats are boxed in politically . . . [by] . . . making job protection for members of teachers' unions more important than improving education for students in the public schools." Wonder how many liberal "friends" will even know who Thomas Sowell is.
One of the few times I have to disagree with Dr. Sowell. Most blacks are not interested in hearing how the rising tide lifts all boats. They have a bone deep sense of entitlement and resentment that can never be satisfied, but only briefly appeased by robbing whites via taxes and squandering the plunder in the form of largesse that benefits only blacks. It has been conditioned into them since birth. They're not going to listen to reason.
Trust me...it may be dirty and little but it is NOT a secret...
One of the most ‘segregated’ cities in the US is lefty Boston, Massachusetts.
If I understand your question correctly, the disparity is largely because black households’ income averages roughly 2/3 that of white households’ (nationally, that is — I don’t know about SF or CA, specifically), so black families would be less able to afford higher home prices and rents.
I agree that the enviro whackjobs are racist with their outlandish demands for regulation, they know the overwhelming number of minorities are not able to afford the added and continuing costs.
1. housing.
2. wages
3. education
4. abortion
Not only do they not want the company of minorities, it looks like they are trying to exterminate them.
In the Left’s bizarro world, pointing out liberal racism is itself racist.
He said (and this is an ACTUAL QUOTE) "I'll have them niggers voting Democrat for years"
Congratulations Black People- you've been owned by the democraps in the worst possible way!
I can't imagine "The Plantation" being any worse than "The Projects"
You are confused here because nobody is saying the buzz words “ghetto,” economically depressed, blighted or low cost housing for lower income groups of people...
Maybe they “know” this, and maybe they don’t.
Remember, most sheeperals are only “in it” to justify the pernicious lie that they are a “good person”.
What could make you a better person than “caring” about the erf and about the downtrodden?
And of course, don’t you DARE point out to them how the policies they promote actually HARM the people they care about! They don’t, and won’t, hear of it.
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