Posted on 11/07/2019 4:25:45 AM PST by Kaslin
Michelle Obama recently complained about "white flight" in her old Chicago neighborhood. By "white flight " she means that whites left her neighborhood as it became increasingly black. "Upstanding families like ours, who were doing everything we were supposed to do and better -- as we moved in, white folks moved out, because they were afraid of what our families represented," she said. "I always stop there when I talk about this out in the world because I want to remind white folks that y'all were running from us. This family, with all the values you read about: You ran from us. And you're still running."
My family was the second black family to move into my South Central neighborhood in Los Angeles. We moved there in 1959, when I was entering the second grade. By seventh grade, virtually all the whites in my neighborhood had moved out.
For one semester, I attended Washington High, a high school that still had a fairly large white student body, perhaps 50%, while a high school closer to my home was being built.
On my very first day, I was by myself eating my lunch. There was a white kid a few yards away eating his lunch, when three or four black kids approached him. One black guy reached into his pocket and pulled out a white handkerchief, placing it across the rail the white kid was leaning against. He told the white kid, "Pick up that handkerchief and shine my shoe." The stunned white kid said, "Excuse me?" The black kid repeated the demand, pointed to a clock on the wall, and said, "When the clock hits 1 o'clock and the bell goes off and you haven't shined my shoe, I'm gonna kick your a--." The white kid kept asking why, what did he do to warrant this abuse? The black kid replied, "Because I told you to."
The white kid refused. The bell rang. The black kid slammed his fist into the white kid's face. But the white kid knew some form of martial arts, so he assumed a fighting position and repeatedly struck the black kid, knocking him down. Then the black kid's friends jumped in and started pounding on the white kid. Soon several other blacks joined in and started hitting the white kid, too. The white kid started running, and a group of some 20 blacks ran after him.
This was my first day.
Throughout that semester, I observed several instances, thankfully not this dramatic, in which whites -- boys and girls -- were verbally abused and physically bullied. In one case, a big, muscular black kid walked through a crowded hall between class periods and struck white male students in the chest with his fist, pointedly allowing black kids to walk by undisturbed.
No doubt, there were instances of white versus black clashes in which white kids were the instigators. But I never observed any. How many white kids went home to their parents and complained about the taunts and the bullying? To what degree did this contribute to the "white flight" that Michelle Obama complained about and implied was completely due to anti-black racism?
Former Attorney General Eric Holder complained about the fact that black kids are suspended and expelled from school disproportionately more compared to their population in a given school. Holder attributed it to racism. But the disproportionate suspensions occur irrespective of the racial composition of the school board and irrespective of the race of the principal.
Michelle Obama also inadvertently offered another reason for "white flight." During the 2008 campaign, "60 Minutes" interviewed her and Barack Obama. Correspondent Steve Croft asked Michelle whether, given the possibility that Barack Obama could become the first black president, she feared for his safety. "I don't lose sleep over it," she replied, "because the realities are that ... as a black man ... Barack can get shot going to the gas station. ... So, you know, you can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. We just weren't raised that way."
The white kid refused. The bell rang. The black kid slammed his fist into the white kid's face. But the white kid knew some form of martial arts, so he assumed a fighting position and repeatedly struck the black kid, knocking him down. Then the black kid's friends jumped in and started pounding on the white kid. Soon several other blacks joined in and started hitting the white kid, too. The white kid started running, and a group of some 20 blacks ran after him.
This was my first day.
Throughout that semester, I observed several instances, thankfully not this dramatic, in which whites -- boys and girls -- were verbally abused and physically bullied. In one case, a big, muscular black kid walked through a crowded hall between class periods and struck white male students in the chest with his fist, pointedly allowing black kids to walk by undisturbed.
No doubt, there were instances of white versus black clashes in which white kids were the instigators. But I never observed any. How many white kids went home to their parents and complained about the taunts and the bullying? To what degree did this contribute to the "white flight" that Michelle Obama complained about and implied was completely due to anti-black racism?
Former Attorney General Eric Holder complained about the fact that black kids are suspended and expelled from school disproportionately more compared to their population in a given school. Holder attributed it to racism. But the disproportionate suspensions occur irrespective of the racial composition of the school board and irrespective of the race of the principal.
Michelle Obama also inadvertently offered another reason for "white flight." During the 2008 campaign, "60 Minutes" interviewed her and Barack Obama. Correspondent Steve Croft asked Michelle whether, given the possibility that Barack Obama could become the first black president, she feared for his safety. "I don't lose sleep over it," she replied, "because the realities are that ... as a black man ... Barack can get shot going to the gas station. ... So, you know, you can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. We just weren't raised that way."
Conservatives too stupid to ask anything of African Americans instead revel in playing the nice little stooge for every bit of political theatre that comes out of the media progressive complex. Life is a negotiation and conservatives negotiating strategy goes something like this, take half of my stuff and then I declare it a victory, repeat.
While her and her worthless POS president move to an all white exclusive rich neighborhood!
The moose leaves out the unspoken truth that, as crime got worse, many of the black families would have moved out, too, if they could have afforded it.
How many black families live in your new Martha’s Vineyard neighborhood, Michael?
The sad irony of this story is that often those blacks who moved into predominantly white neighborhoods did so because they were actually ‘running’ from the black neighborhoods they lived in. They wanted a better life. You could call it ‘black flight’. The problem is that the ghetto often followed them.
Where does Big Mike live?
Almost a year ago, a tall black man tried to kidnap my 13 year old daughter in broad daylight while we were shopping in the local Target store.
The problem aren't the nice, solid hard-working black families: it's the cruds they bring with them. Nestled among the fine citizens are brutal jerks that look at everyone else as prey.
I still live in the same place but I carry full time.
Crime is concentrated in the cities, which are run by dems. We moved to the suburbs so we wouldn’t be part of the knockout “game.” bammy’s wish was to bring his kids to the suburbs so we would have no place to escape from the crime committed by his kids.
She is just trying to get whites to move back because whites make better targets.
No one will ever address the facts about endemic black criminality and violence. It’s the ‘third rail’ of American politics, which can be easily established by the FBI’s published crime statistics, but is avoided like the plague. Meanwhile the beatings, rapes and murders continue unabated.
There were always blacks in my schools. They were generally outstanding students. During the first year of “integration” I was knocked completely out twice in what they call now “the knockout game.” The second event seems to have done some permanent damage.
Blacks complain about being profiled. Sorry. If I don’t know you, I am going to stay as far away as possible.
Well one thing is that she’s part of it. Didn’t she just flee to Martha’s Vinyard?
Fags and lesbos usually lead the gentrification charge. Most of them are white and childless so they don’t care about schools..
Later in my school career my potential lab partner who was black told me to never rush a black man. I got a new lab partner.
When I tried out for the bball team, one of the black kids told me they didn't allow whites on the team.
Have all of my experiences with blacks been negative? No.
But you begin to form opinions very early based on behaviors.
We don't see them buying property in the gang infested areas of Chiraq or Baltimore do we?
Stereotypes don’t invent themselves. I’d best leave it at that.
I bet if you traced the demographics of the neighborhoods she’s lived in, you’d see them getting progressively whiter.
I’ve long maintained that this is why blacks have come to dominate sports. White kids trying out for the team are bullied and intimidated by blacks. The white kids are there for fun and fair competition. When both of these elements are removed by black thug mentality, they don’t participate. Not worth it. You’ll notice that most whites in pro sports these days come from states or areas with predominate white populations. The idea that blacks are better athletes as a race is a myth, and this is why it exists.
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