Forced integration is what led to the decline of many great cities.
And imports from Japan they got the last laugh after all.
In Cleveland, school busing and school choice get a lot of the blame. People from the more education-oriented areas would not let their children be bused, so they moved. Parents in the minority communities who could get their kids to the "better" schools pulled them out of their neighborhood schools, and still transport them out of their neighborhoods. The irony is that the all-black schools are still all-black, except now the parents who would provide a positive influence send their kids to someone eles's schools, where they often bring their behaviors with them.