Why whites don’t understand black segregation

wp ^ | 11/21/14 | keating

[knak]

Over the past 20 years, whites and blacks have experienced opposite trends in segregation. Asians, Hispanics and blacks are moving into historically white neighborhoods. Vastly fewer whites live surrounded by just other white people. Whites look around and see multi-ethnic neighbors. They perceive expanded opportunity and integration because that is what they see. And they think everyone else is experiencing the same things.

But a Washington Post analysis of Census data shows that the experience in historically African American neighborhoods of major cities has been far different, as they have remained heavily isolated. Whites, Asians and Hispanics are not moving into those neighborhoods, and blacks who remain there experience persistent segregation.

Indeed, nearly all-white neighborhoods in big cities are now virtually extinct. Nearly all-black neighborhoods, on the other hand, are still commonplace.

[JimSEA]

If you make your own neighborhood into a cesspool, don’t expect a whole lot of working people to move there.

[BobL]

I don’t feel like reading this propaganda piece, but I will say that THE FIRST THING blacks do when they make a tiny bit of money is MOVE OUT of LaHood, as they want safety for themselves. It has NOTHING to do with “segregation” - those days ended DECADES AGO.

[norton]

The more functional families get it together and leave. The ones who fall into the spiral of drugs, alcohol, gangs and the false promise of government dependency are all that’s left.

And they are perfectly comfortable to remain there.

(Really sad to watch someone who tries to break out being pulled back by his or her "peers" who resent anyone making progress...Not real different from the way many workers respond to those among them who go to school or work their ass off to get a promotion).

[Big Red Badger]

This Is Really Awful!

[meadsjn]

But a Washington Post analysis of Census data shows that ...

All the Washington Post thugs and other journolista commies are much like everyone else in not wanting to live where the inner-city yutes will take all they have, and will then take their lives.

Liberal commies just want lots of other people to snuggle up to the sub-humans and get themselves slaughtered.

[xp38]

Across 110th Street
By Bobby Womack

I was the third brother of five
Doing whatever I had to do to survive
I’m not saying what I did was alright
Trying to break out of the ghetto was a day to day fight

Been down so long, getting up didn’t cross my mind
I knew there was a better way of life and I was just trying to find
You don’t know what you’ll do until you’re put under pressure
Across 110th Street is a hell of a tester

Across 110th Street
Pimps trying to catch a woman that’s weak
Across 110th Street
Pushers won’t let the junkie go free

Across 110th Street
Woman trying to catch a trick on the street, ooh baby
Across 110th Street
You can find it all in the street, oh

I got one more thing I’d like to yell about right now
Hey brother, there’s a better way out
Snorting that coke, shooting that dope man, you’re copping out
Take my advice, it’s either live or die
You’ve got to be strong, if you want to survive

The family on the other side of town
Would catch hell without a ghetto around
In every city you find the same thing going down
Harlem is the capital of every ghetto town
Help me sing it

Across 110th Street
Pimps trying to catch a woman that’s weak
Across 110th Street
Pushers won’t let the junkie go free

Oh, across 110th Street
A woman trying to catch a trick on the street, ooh baby
Across 110th Street
You can find it all in the street
Yes, he can

Oh, look around you, look around you
Look around you, look around you, yeah

[gogeo]

Doesn’t that prove the blacks who live in those neighborhoods are racist?

[ExCTCitizen]

The neighborhood we live in is a gated community. We have a few blacks here, but mostly whites.

[roadcat]

He was very GQ—would have stuck out in the ghetto like a sore thumb.

Reminds me of this tech team I supervised a while back having two black members. One was from the ghetto. The other was a black gal raised middle class from a midwest town. She said she was shaking with fear with she first started working here in SF and got exposed to ghetto blacks. One of her duties was handling equipment at the city jail and all the inmates would be saying all manner of things to her. Also had to go to service equipment at the food stamp outlets in the black neighborhoods. She said black people scared her like no other people. Awful strange hearing this from a black gal. The other black worker did not have a problem, was street smart and could defend himself. The black gal married, had kids and they now live in an upscale white area. The black worker still lives in the hood.

[roadcat]

I don’t know about the rest of the country, but in Seattle, blacks are being squeezed out of their traditional neighborhoods in central Seattle because of gentrification.

It's the same in San Francisco. Blacks dropped from 15 percent to less than 6 percent over the last few decades due to gentrification. Asians are moving into formerly all black neighborhoods. And the neighborhoods are getting cleaner and more livable.

[mountainbunny]

We have African American neighbors on either side of us.

The lady next door is a retired widow with four daughters. All of them are educated to the point of having at least one graduate degree. Her granddaughter and my older girls are the same age and are in college together. Wonderful people - we look out for the lady and carry in her groceries if her daughters aren’t around.

On the other side, a married couple with three children. Dad and mom both work, and we see dad bringing the baby home from the sitter in the evenings. The older two kids are probably better mannered than my own.

Super nice, and we could not ask for kinder, better neighbors.

[pgkdan]

Whites, Asians and Hispanics are not moving into those neighborhoods, and blacks who remain there experience persistent segregation.

Probably because we have a 'racist' aversion to being mugged, robbed, beaten or killed in our beds.

[Altura Ct.]

Why do I need to understand it?

[GOPJ]

For example, in the city of Chicago, the share of whites in nearly all-white neighborhoods dropped from 45 percent in 1990 down to 12 percent as of 2010. But for African Americans, it has hardly changed. The share living in racial isolation declined from 79 percent only down to 70 percent over those two decades. The vast majority are still in isolated neighborhoods.

In a few years a tipping point will be reached. Chicago will become Detroit.

Beautiful neighborhoods blacks once coveted will belong to them... and slowly those neighborhoods will become crime ridden hellholes... Cute stores will leave - replaced by quickie marts that sell beer.

Payday loan businesses will blossom - flexible steel gates will appear on stores - and bars will cover windows. Streets will be littered with paper because it's easier to toss stuff out a car window than act 'white'...

And young reporters will assume it's only the color of a person's skin... and that everyone's a racist...

On the flip side (because there are economic advantages for blacks moving into white well kept neighborhoods - and getting houses cheap... ) we have white liberal elites who do the reverse. They move into black neighborhoods with older well built homes and drive prices up making it impossible for elderly black residents to stay in their homes with the quickly rising property taxes. So, the scams aren't done by only one side or one race... But it does showcase the tension...

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I make fun of Godless commies any way I can.

[Mears]

“——— making it impossible for elderly black residents to stay in their homes with the quickly rising property taxes. “

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So what?

Most elderly get rid of their homes and downsize.

I do not have one friend who still lives in the home in which they raised their families———and we’re white.

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[Iron Munro]

There aren’t that many employers in the private section with jobs available for people who can’t dress themselves in a presentable manner. who can’t speak intelligible english, who can’t do basic math, who can’t show up for work on time and who carry a racist chip on their shoulder when they do.

That is probably why many people with those qualifications end up working for the government.

[GOPJ]

Choosing to leave and being forced out are very different... I’m just saying both sides play racial politics for ‘fun and profit’... I don’t care for it on either side. Something unpleasant about it.

Blacks have the tax ‘advantage’ of living in undesirable neighborhoods by virtue of the fact they live there... It’s why blacks in Harlem didn’t want Clinton putting his office there - it would start the gentrification process that leads to higher taxes. The networks of incentives around race make it difficult to find solutions. Housing is only one of them...

[PGR88]

I’m all out of concern. I’m empathized-out.