when the middle class was starting to be displaced by thuggish criminal element in The Bronx, NY in the 1960s, my parents did the right thing.
they did not walk they ran to an area that was filled with folks who work within the system to better their life.
this was not a racial move, this was a socioeconomic move. though the racial differences there was very small it was there.
once those who had turned a neighborhood into a sewer, learns to be productive good citizens they will be welcome to live near me.
In the mid 70s when Dallas, TX decided to bus all the lowest of the lowest little minority thugs to nice middle class white schools and innocent white students to drug and crime infested minority schools, my parents moved hundreds of miles away the next year. It had nothing to do with race but with us getting accosted in the hallways and having to be locked inside our classrooms for safety by our black principal.
I was tolerant enough when I got my first job and fired a black guy for sleeping in the janitor’s closet. I got called on the carpet because his mama was prez of the local NAACP and her widdle baby was back getting paid to sleep on the job.
I was still tolerant enough when another job sent us a new muslim supervisor who hated women, especially left handed ones, and the first time he appeared in my doorway told me he didn’t like me before I even said hello. A few weeks later, a client gave me some watermelons (hey, this is the South) so I thought I’d offer one to the supervisor. No, he jumped a mile backward as if it was a rattlesnake and wouldn’t come near it or me.
I was becoming decidedly less tolerant when the Katrina trash blew into my town and were getting perks left and right. They were given a huge acreage in the most exclusive highest taxing area around yet don’t have to pay property tax.
When I saw first hand how illegals were getting all their education, housing, health care, etc. on my dime when we were struggling to provide for our own kids, I wasn’t so tolerant. When kiddo graduated #3 in his class but he barely got any scholarships and we had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to pay for college, he was randomly assigned an illegal DREAM roommate who had a free ride, I was getting more than annoyed.
PC has gone out the window when I see how those EBT’ers are living high off my tax dollars. I see “EBT Accepted” signs on restaurants that we can’t afford to go to. I haven’t been able to afford to the grocery store but once in the last four plus months. We’ll get by. We always do but I’m sick and tired of just getting by because we are supporting the rest of the world. No, I am not tolerant anymore and it’s not over skin color.
BTW, I suspect the author intended to use the word “acceptance” rather than “tolerance” but whatever.
I did the same.
The place that I ran away from was very "diverse". Liberal, medium-sized city. Neighborhood was completely mixed, a Democrat's dream. However....crime was high - for instance, my car was broken into regularly, and I could count on getting panhandled in my own yard if I was working outside for any length of time. Schools stunk - the local HS was proud - PROUD - that they'd gotten their graduation rate UP to 56%. It wasn't safe to walk around at night, or let my kids play in the yard unattended. And, after I moved away, I found out that the diversity who lived 2 houses up from me, got busted for diddling the local neighborhood kids.
I'm glad to be rid of my diverse, enlightened neighborhood.
And, if I've said this once, I've said it 100 times.....I don't CARE what the people around me look like. What I'm interested in, is that they have the same set of values - family, hard work, education, religion - that I have.
So, I wound up in a mostly middle-class, Christian, conservative area with excellent schools. It's also 98% white.