What Michelle Obama Leaves Out About 'White Flight'

Townhall.com ^ | November 7, 2019 | Larry Elder

[Bonemaker]

“I lived in a second floor apartment of a walkup three flat at 63rd and Cottage Grove Avenue right near the University of Chicago”.

Almost my old ‘hood from the 40’s and 50’s. 75th and Coles to 84th and Ada to the fricken hell outta there to Iowa in 1953.

[Socon-Econ]

I know that 90% of the blacks in a nearby low-income black neighborhood wouldn’t hurt a fly — and might even help me if I had to change a flat tire. But in my own neighborhood of whites, I don’t have to worry about the other 10%.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

It’s a cycle - neighborhoods with white families, the blacks move in, whites flee, crime rises, neighborhood and schools decline. After several decades, Starbucks, fags and pajama boys move back in with no kids.

[super7man]

Every morning, when I was a Kindergartener walking to school, a group of black kids who were 8 or 9 would rob me of my milk money (5 cents). I was threatened not to tell. I resolved to walk to school the long way around the block. I had to leave 5 minutes earlier which my Mom thought was strange but I never told her.

That was my introduction to black people and I remember it. Have I known nice black people? Sure. Does my experience put an extra hurdle in the relationship? Sure.

[super7man]

There is no white flight from asian neighborhoods.

Yeah, no flight. But it would be nice if they would take care of their yards. ;o)

[lurk]

Ask any retailer whether he would prefer to have a store in a white neighborhood or a black neighborhood.

[Louis Foxwell]

My family moved into an all white neighborhood in Baltimore in 1956. By 1965 the neighborhood was changing. In 1970 my parent’s home was broken into while they were away, several times. Local thugs were caught but the belongings stolen were never recovered. In 1974 my father was shot and killed in front of his home by a teenager who lived a block away. I was forced out of the community a few years after moving into the home. Today that community is a high crime area.
The liberal establishment in Baltimore has tolerated crime for decades. It is not a racial issue. It is a political issue in which a segment of the population is encouraged to run wild for the sake of their vote.
Moral corruption at the highest level is precisely the condition we are facing locally and nationally.The Democrat party has become the party of crime, of corruption, of incivility, and of elitism. Their political influence must be destroyed, absolutely.

[Lee'sGhost]

“100 percent wrong” plus “certain blacks” equals an illogical comment. My comment was about the myth of blacks being better athletes as a race, period. The predominance of blacks in football as compared to the racial makeup of the population makes no sense whatsoever unless social influencers are factored in. Thus the point of my comment. To say I’m 100 percent wrong while in the same breath saying CERTAIN blacks have an advantage actually makes you 100 percent wrong, as 100 percent is an absolute...thus ANY exception nullifies your comment. While there is certainly truth in your comment otherwise, and is a separate aspect worth discussing, it does not make my comment wrong.