To Spike Lee: Those neighborhoods were white before they became black (mostly because of black violence!)
Washington DC is now black minority. So many whites and Asians and Hispanics have moved in due to the FedGov’s Godzilla like growth. Blacks used to be the majority population there
My parents fled Brooklyn in 1954 for Long Island. What had been a lovely neighborhood was quickly going down hill. It’s done a complete turn around in the past few years with brownstones selling in the millions.