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Black flight is panicking the Democrat Party which is trying to scare them into believing the U.S. is a racist country The current BLM Movement is a Hollywood produced reality-TV movie meant to scare upwardly mobile Blacks in suburbia back to the Democrat plantation, While the media feeds us Hollywood staged scenes of Black Lives Matter rioters, together with white liberal youth, ransacking businesses in Democrat-controlled cities in Los Angeles and Santa Monica as police are ordered to stand down, the long wait for Black upward mobility in California has been mostly successful. But there won’t be any infotainment news...

Fifty years ago this weekend, a deadly urban riot began in Detroit. It started around 3:30 a.m., when police arrested 85 patrons of a blind pig -- an illegal after-hours bar -- in the midst of an all-black neighborhood that had been all-white 15 or 20 years before. The statistics are horrifying. Rioting went on for six nights, with some 2,500 stores looted and burnt, some 400 families displaced and property damage was estimated around $300 million in 2017 dollars. Forty-three people, many of them innocent bystanders, were killed. More than 1,000 people were wounded. The reality was even more...

In Deborah Brown’s family lore, the American South was a place of whites-only water fountains and lynchings under cover of darkness. It was a place black people like her mother had fled. Multimedia Deborah Brown, 59, and her mother, Louise Brown, 82, plan to move from Queens to Atlanta. But for Ms. Brown, 59, a retired civil servant from Queens, the South now promises salvation. Three generations of her family — 10 people in all — are moving to Atlanta from New York, seeking to start fresh economically and, in some sense, to reconnect with a bittersweet past. They include...

DETROIT—This shrinking city needs to hang on to people like Johnette Barham: taxpaying, middle-class professionals who invest in local real estate, work and play downtown, and make their home here. Ms. Barham just left. And she's not coming back. In seven years as a homeowner in Detroit, she endured more than 10 burglaries and break-ins at her house and a nearby rental property she owned. Still, she defied friends' pleas to leave as she fortified her home with locks, bars, alarms and a dog. Then, a week before Christmas, someone torched the house and destroyed almost everything she owned.

First of two parts Every morning Vivian King drives her granddaughter past her neighborhood Dallas ISD school on the five-mile route to her charter school. Both are "recognized" public schools, but King believes the A.W. Brown-Fellowship Leadership Academy offers her granddaughter, 6-year-old Vivica Griffin, a better education. "We didn't want her to go to the schools around here," King said. King's decision makes her part of a historic shift in Dallas ISD: The number of black children attending DISD schools has reached its lowest point since 1965. The movement mirrors, on a smaller scale, massive white flight from the district...

African Americans are leaving San Francisco because of substandard schools, a lack of affordable housing and the dearth of jobs and black culture, according to a report by a committee looking into the exodus. The African American Out-migration Task Force, put together by the mayor's office last year to figure out what can be done to preserve the city's remaining black population and cultivate new residents, presented its findings at a public hearing Thursday called by Supervisor Chris Daly. San Francisco's black population has dropped faster than any other large U.S. city's. It went from 13.4 percent in 1970 to...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/12/24/BAA0U3VHO.DTL "San Francisco officials have a moral obligation to try and stop black residents from abandoning the city and should consider a local version of the Marshall Plan to help African Americans, the Rev. Amos Brown, president... "...He said the flight of black residents has resulted in fewer black-owned businesses, and fewer black families who are able to compete successfully for low- income housing, which is awarded through a lottery system. "If San Francisco is serious about making amends for what's been done against the black people, they need to put their money where their mouth is," Brown said. "We...

Aug. 15 - KGO - Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau shows an exodus is taking place in some of the Bay Area's largest cities. And even though the nation is getting more diverse, those Bay Area cities are losing their minority populations. These are the first numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau since 2000, and demographers say there has been an extraordinary explosion of diversity all across the United States. The number of immigrants in the U.S. has gone up 16-percent. Diversity has reached almost every state. West Virginia is the only state that didn't see an increase...