“The white residents rebelled too. With moving vans.”
Ditto for Detroit. And those moving vans contained brains, talent, good will and money too. If it wasn’t for the high cost of Detroit’s crime problems, most white people of a certain age couldn’t care less about Detroit’s fate.
Sort of like Rhodesia (and now S. Africa) writ small. Ah well, just b/c something's un-PC doesn't mean it's wrong.