[Steve_Seattle]

Just the other day, a white woman in Chicago was attacked by a black mob who shouted racial epithets and told her to get out of their neighborhood. What do the butt-sniffers at the NYT have to say about that?

[Pearls Before Swine]

What do the butt-sniffers at the NYT have to say about that?

"Welcome them into YOUR neighborhood."

[az_gila]

*The issue here is not racial integration — segregation is always wrong — but rather social class. And if you build low-income housing projects in middle class neighborhoods the middle class people will move, because they are strongly averse to crime and antisocial behavior. End result, new street, same isolated ghetto population, same pathology.

This kind of ham-handed social engineering is particularly harmful in urban areas where a delicate balance has been established that allows people from different groups and widely varying economic strata to live in close proximity to one another, sometimes only a block or two away. Destroy that balance, and you end up with Newark or Detroit, and then just try to integrate.

This is the kind of thinking that makes me embarrassed to be a liberal.

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It's a pity more liberals don't think like that...:^)