Posted on 01/14/2008 6:32:22 PM PST by blam
'White flight' increasing, race chief says
By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
Last Updated: 1:41am GMT 15/01/2008
The flight of the white middle classes from the inner cities is accelerating, the Government's race relations chief has said.
Trevor Phillips said so-called ''white flight" - an American phenomenon now increasingly seen here - was deepening racial segregation.
Mr Phillips has warned in the past of the growing polarisation of the country along ethnic lines.
But his use of the emotive term ''white flight" will fuel the controversy triggered by the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester.
He said last week some Muslim enclaves were "no-go areas" for Christians and there was a need for greater integration.
Mr Phillips, who chairs the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said the Bishop was right to raise the issue because white families were moving out of areas with high ethnic minority populations.
Interviewed on Radio Four's Today programme, he said: ''There are areas in which there is no contact or very little contact between different ethnic and cultural groups.
"Nobody is putting up walls and gates but we all know that in virtually every big city there are places where different kinds of people feel uncomfortable, whether that is Asians in so-called white areas or white people in so-called black areas."
He added: "We know that white flight is accelerating. That schools - we know this from studies done by Bristol University - are becoming more segregated than the areas they sit in. So there is a phenomenon we have to deal with and I think that the Bishop of Rochester was right to raise this."
The term "white flight" was coined in 1960s America to describe the emergence of inner city ghettos.
However, Government ministers have preferred to refer to it as ''churn" and to attribute the movement of people to house price fluctuations.
A survey conducted by the old Commission for Racial Equality in 2006 found that a quarter of Britons wanted to live in an all-white area.
The movement has been especially notable in London, which has always seen a big turnover of population, and is now witnessing unprecedented movement.
Last year, nearly 245,000 people left inner boroughs for the suburbs, rural areas, or new lives abroad.
The movement has a bigger impact in northern cities where communities already live "parallel lives".
As a consequence they become "shut off" and vulnerable to political and religious extremism.
Research by Migrationwatch suggests movement within Britain is mainly from areas of high ethnic minority population to those with predominantly white populations.
Sir Andrew Green, the chairman of Migrationwatch, praised Mr Phillips for confronting the evidence of "white flight".
"This is another courageous contribution from Trevor Phillips, who is clearly prepared to face the facts about the current strains in our society," he said.
"We would add - although he does not - that massive levels of immigration are a significant factor in this."
"Birds Of A Feather Flock Together."
Origin
Proverbial. Known by the late 16th century and recorded by Philemon Holland, in a translation of Livy's Romane historie, 1600, in its original form:
"As commonly birds of a feather will flye together."
I don’t understand what they expect. If crime is rampant and your ability to defend yourself is nearly gone, why wouldn’t you leave.
WHAAAAT?
And I thought the Brits and the Euros want to live in a multicultural’ world...
UK see Detroit (US)
Like ours, their government never discussed it with the people.
Regards
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...deepening racial segregation...
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A phrase that implies it is the fault of those leaving.
I guess that having an area become so populated by immigrant followers of the Religion of Peace is not cause for worry. It is only when whites do the reverse that we must fret and fret loudly.
As little liberty as a citizen of the UK has today, they are still free to move to new digs when the lease on the old one is nearing expiration. Free people are free to self-select where they live. Multiculturalists and professional nannies will want to bring in all the armed agents of the state and issue new rules for them to enforce, rules that are designed to correct unacceptable changes in racial makeup of a neighborhood.
That's what the elites living in pure white neighborhoods think. Their idea of "multiculturalism" is going out for curry or hiring a minority nanny.
Oh like white liberals specifically celebrities who live in beverly Hills who dont want to live in Compton?
ah yes...white liberals.
They’re all heading to Spain.
Better weather there.
“I dont understand what they expect. If crime is rampant and your ability to defend yourself is nearly gone, why wouldnt you leave.”
Another ‘Post of the Day’ Candidate
Ethnic cleansing.
For you to be prey.
Remember not more than a decade or so ago how haughty the Europeans were about the crude Americans and their high crimes, and ‘white flight’?
It would be a lot more satisfying if we all didn’t all know that it’s going to be our sons and daughters giving their lives to save them from the hell they are headed for
Brits are welcome here in the Missouri Ozarks. They might even find some distant relatives...
I wonder where the race chief lives?
The issue is crime, not race, although there are some demographics involved in the crime part of the equation that are used to make it look like a racial issue.
If the opposite were occurring (”ethnics” moving away to avoid white criminals), it would be interesting to see how the DBM would spin it.
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