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How residential segregation continues to shape Black Americans’ quality of life ["Black Americans living in highly segregated neighborhoods report more nearby crime"]
Market Watch ^ | August 15, 2022 | Emma Ockerman

Posted on 08/15/2022 4:45:48 PM PDT by grundle

Black Americans living in highly segregated neighborhoods report more nearby crime and drug abuse, worse air quality, a greater lack of affordable housing, and fewer safe places for their children to play locally compared to their Black peers living in white neighborhoods.

That’s according to a new report from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which detailed the differences in survey responses between Black people living in majority non-white neighborhoods and Black people living in majority-white communities.

In the survey, Black adults in predominantly non-white neighborhoods also gave lower ratings to the quality of their schools, policing and emergency services, all while also being more concerned about crime. They were also more likely to want to move out of their communities while lacking the resources to do so, and they reported more serious financial problems when compared to their peers in white neighborhoods, according to a report on the survey findings.

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The article starts out with "Black Americans living in highly segregated neighborhoods report more nearby crime." Apparently, liberals think that the crime in black neighborhoods is caused by racist whites.
1 posted on 08/15/2022 4:45:48 PM PDT by grundle
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The late Walter E. Williams: I wouldn’t live in a black neighborhood. When you get home you have to take your engine out of the car and bring it in the house.


2 posted on 08/15/2022 4:47:43 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: grundle

Or by the Amish?

... rascally bunch....


3 posted on 08/15/2022 4:48:14 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: grundle

Any neighborhood gets the kind of behavior it tolerates.


4 posted on 08/15/2022 4:48:44 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“My neighborhood is so rough ... there are signs that say ‘drive faster, the life you save might be your own!’” — Rodney Dangerfield (from memory)


5 posted on 08/15/2022 4:50:19 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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So blacks feel they do better in white neighborhoods.

Hmmmmmmm !!!

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6 posted on 08/15/2022 4:53:28 PM PDT by Mears
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To: grundle

These are quite surprising findings.


7 posted on 08/15/2022 4:53:36 PM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
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To: grundle

And yet many blacks segregate themselves by choice.


8 posted on 08/15/2022 4:54:06 PM PDT by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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One bright spot in the survey, however: Regardless of neighborhood racial composition, Black households with kids under 18 largely believed their children will graduate from college.

Har har...what a bright spot. The majority will go a few years and get no degree, but have a lot of debt. Many others will get worthless degrees and even more debt. Some will actually get a worthwhile degree, but probably not many.

9 posted on 08/15/2022 4:57:44 PM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
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I’m sure they’d be happier with more of everybody.


10 posted on 08/15/2022 5:01:25 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: grundle
The article describes one of the dumbest examples of "research" I have read this year.

No effort was made to control for the effects of poverty, unemployment, and other factors that lead to concentrations of people of different racial or ethnic groups in particular locations that have high crime rates.

It doesn't take a genius to understand that in general people of all races and ethnic groups who can afford to live in neighborhoods with less crime chose to do so. Some people choose to stay in neighborhoods when crime increases, but only a small group of people intentionally move to neighborhoods with high crime rates from safer neighborhoods if they have a choice to live elsewhere.

11 posted on 08/15/2022 5:04:53 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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It's almost like 60 years (3 generations) of affirmative action did not do much.

12 posted on 08/15/2022 5:05:57 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: grundle

We just need to bus white democrats into these neighborhoods.


13 posted on 08/15/2022 5:06:25 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: grundle

And people wonder why White Flight is a thing.


14 posted on 08/15/2022 5:08:45 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: grundle

Twisted logic.


15 posted on 08/15/2022 5:09:50 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: BitWielder1

The “Great Society” efforts did what it meant to do. Destroy black families, keep them dependent on the government, made the government more powerful, and kept those “n***ers voting Democrat for the next 60 years”.


16 posted on 08/15/2022 5:10:13 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: fruser1

I am strongly in favor of this policy solution!


17 posted on 08/15/2022 5:10:14 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: grundle

“Stop chitting in your own nest” is the best advice I can give.


18 posted on 08/15/2022 5:10:25 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("There should have been an age and risk stratification approach." still true)
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To: grundle

How unintentioonally hilarious. I needed that laugh today.


19 posted on 08/15/2022 5:11:19 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I think they’d be happier by murdering all their neighbors until they were the only black person left.


20 posted on 08/15/2022 5:12:38 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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