“When all property values shoot up, people with low incomes have to move out.”
I get that as well, but were there no whites that had to move out also? Hispanics, asians, indians, etc...? Are only blacks affected? Is the affect disproportionate to the demographics of the area based strictly on race lines because the wages are also disproportionate based strictly on race lines and only affecting one race this way?
Obviously there are some blacks there because Sowell writes about them being there, they are just fewer in number than what he seems to think should be there. Why is that - specifically? I don’t think we ever get a concise answer to that question; and thus we have come full circle in the conversation (or so it would appear).
“I get that as well, but were there no whites that had to move out also? Hispanics, asians, indians, etc...?”
Certainly there were, but nobody paid much attention to them. Blacks, on the other hand, are conspicuous by their absence.
“Is the affect disproportionate to the demographics of the area based strictly on race lines because the wages are also disproportionate based strictly on race lines and only affecting one race this way?”
It’s not disproportionate. Most of the blacks in SF were low-income/no-income denizens of the Fillmore slum. There were middle-class blacks, of course, and professionals, but the middle-class was priced out with the slum-dwellers, leaving only the affluent among the professionals.
It’s not that it only affected one race this way, at all. It’s that there were rich whites to move in, and rich asians, so there was no conspicuous change in those racial demographics.
Apparently rich blacks have not flocked to a town overrun by sodomites, and in which they will be such a small minority. Believe it or not, many blacks say they would rather live in a black neighborhood than a white neighborhood. Don’t know about the reconquistas.
“they are just fewer in number than what he seems to think should be there.”
No, Sowell would never think something like that. He’s saying that there used to be a lot, and now there’s not, and that’s the unintended consequence of libtard efforts to “fix” things. It’s an observation, not a complaint.
I think I have answered your question, but apparently you don’t. I don’t know what else to say; it looks pretty clear to me.