residential segregation, but it is among the worst
Nobody in their right mind wants to live there.
“It’s not clear that this new migration is a positive step, even if it allows blacks to escape the city and its troubles. For whites, suburbs have often been a big step up — but as long as most blacks find themselves in secondhand suburbia, the American dream of security, prosperity and opportunity will remain harder to achieve.”
The Left is always going to put the blame on Whitey for the problems Blacks create for themselves.
I guess it’s too un-pc to say that you’d have to be crazy or stoooopid to stick around that city.... so they blame whites.
Or maybe, just maybe, “freedom from crime” is code for “freedom from crime”.
Another “what are going to believe? Us, or your lying eyes?” article on race in the leftwing media.
“freedom from crime” is about any race that is allowed to take over areas of our cities and make them un-livable.
White trash, Hispanics, Blacks, Muslims and Asians all have made certain areas a hellhole. But one race is the Champion of this cause. And one race screams “I am the victim” louder then all others put together while they destroy every neighborhood they become a majority in.
Sounds like the Democrats back then were just as racist as they are today....
It’s too late to get into black racism, Coleman Young, filhy unions, democrats, socialists, government welfare, Conyers, (wife in fed prison) Kilpatricks, (congresswoman spawned mayor in fed prison) the projects, welfare babies, taxation, and everything else since Detroit essentially made the metal to end WWII in Europe.
Those were the days.
If this cliche filled article had any value at all he could site other major American cities that also had “White Flight” in the sixties and for some reason lost a quarter of its population fifty years later.
Atlanta, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh for example had similar experiences in the sixties but none lost a quarter of their populations in the last ten years.
Could the real reason be Detroit suffers more than any other city from the plague of liberalism that creates high taxes, no jobs and horrible schools? And that being the case people of all races, creeds and colors fled.
I skimmed the first few paragraphs. The constant propaganda drumbeat is it is the whites fault. They did this and that then they had the nerve to leave.
OK, got it. /s
Crime stats don't lie.
And by the way, why should someone who moves be expected to provide a "moral" explanation for doing so?
Sugrue plans on moving to Detroit so he can study the natives up close and personal? No? I didn’t think so.
So the conclusion of this article is that whitey flight is racist, but black flight is OK.
Another in the multitudes of attempts by liberals to coax just a little more white-guilt out of the people they are trying to screw. Truth be told, the housing shortage for these economically displaced Americans is probably just a severe shortage of suitable Section 8 housing - not discrimination.
Two comments on the article. One the author never mentions the gimme more riots of the sixties that made people want to leave the city. The other is the Fannie Mae Freddie Mac lending of money to those that could not afford housing. If leaving an area that could get you killed or not lending money to someone on welfare is racist so be it.
But a closer **analysis** of the data suggests that the story of housing discrimination.
A Mexican,Black,White and a Arab live on the same block what could go wrong?.Some times mixing isn’t the answer and it’s not racism it’s just some like to be around own race.
Ever see a cat run with a pack of dogs?.