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Why whites don’t understand black segregation
wp ^ | 11/21/14 | keating

Posted on 11/23/2014 4:41:21 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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To: The Toll

“No one pays more to escape it than those that promote it though. No one!”

Yep! Take a ride through oh-so-liberal Vermont some day. You will have a tough time finding blacks or Hispanics.

Vermont’s post card perfect towns want to stay white.

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41 posted on 11/23/2014 5:18:13 PM PST by Mears
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To: knak

Because it is stupid and whites aren’t stupid?


42 posted on 11/23/2014 5:18:48 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Meanaholics.


43 posted on 11/23/2014 5:21:29 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: PAR35

Pretty much.


44 posted on 11/23/2014 5:21:46 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: knak

This must be our faults, I mean, white folks built fences around all those neighborhoods and won’t let them leave, right?


45 posted on 11/23/2014 5:22:39 PM PST by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Never say you’re sorry for stating the obvious truth.


46 posted on 11/23/2014 5:23:17 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: 50sDad
And for God's sake

Really, that's the answer for it all. Do what you do for God's sake. (Not some ersatz, graceless God like Allah either.) Evil will start to be shown the exit door, goodness will start to be invited. Doing things for "humanity's sake" is asking for a cornucopia of distortions.

47 posted on 11/23/2014 5:25:35 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: PAR35

Short and to the point. Well done...


48 posted on 11/23/2014 5:26:28 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: knak
I've driven through Chappaqua...twice.Not a dark skinned person to be seen.I drive (and walk) through Cambridge (adopted home of Princess Liawatha)regularly.Cambridge is a city with many,*many* dark skinned people.But *none* of them can afford to live within two miles of Liawatha.Google “Brattle Street,Cambridge” and you find that that section of the city is about the richest two square mile section of residential real estate on earth.
49 posted on 11/23/2014 5:28:18 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Majority black neighborhoods are dangerous and dirty.

Drive down any street in any town name Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

50 posted on 11/23/2014 5:33:51 PM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: Ouderkirk
Pay the danegeld and you never get rid of the Dane.

/johnny

51 posted on 11/23/2014 5:34:44 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Burkean

Maybe so but She went to high school right here in college park ga at woodward academy.I grew up in one of the corner houses at rugby and lee st that my grandfather built.I remember the secret service dropping the homely one off every morning.


52 posted on 11/23/2014 5:35:14 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: knak

If you know anything about trees in the forests, they go through a process called succession. One species of tree will grow for a while, but then another will take over, and then the next. Then there will be a great fire and things start over.

When the all-black neighborhoods reduce themselves to post-nuclear-war landscapes with only a few residents remaining, developers begin to buy up the city blocks nearest the downtown business center and the neighborhoods begin another fresh up-cycle. Just like the forest.

It’s all whitey’s fault, of course.


53 posted on 11/23/2014 5:35:19 PM PST by lurk
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To: knak

Back in the day the black neighborhoods had middle class families, professional class families, as well as poorer class families. When housing discrimination ended the more functional people moved into the white areas. That left the less functional who could not afford to leave. This created a cycle of concentrated poverty. It’s not just blacks in these neighborhoods. Poor whites, Asians and Hispanics also live there. 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.


54 posted on 11/23/2014 5:37:16 PM PST by gracie1 (Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesnÂ’t mean you have to approve of it.)
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To: 50sDad

So you want them to act white? That’s what their overseers would say.


55 posted on 11/23/2014 5:37:32 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: knak

Why is it that whites have to do all of the understanding?


56 posted on 11/23/2014 5:37:43 PM PST by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: Mears

I grew up in Vermont. Went home last summer. I was surprised at how many black people lived there. Town of about 2500, but I believe they actually work at bringing “diversity” in to the town. Definitely not your urban “utes”. But, the town is so flippin’ liberal, I have no idea how my folks have stayed there so long.


57 posted on 11/23/2014 5:39:39 PM PST by ozaukeemom (Is there even a republic left?)
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To: knak

I have noticed that for the last 50 years!

I guess this article was written by a sn*tn*se, wet behind the ears kid.

There is no amount of anything that would make me live next to, inside of, or in close proximity of a black neighborhood, been there did that, in the ‘60’s, in NEW ENGLAND!


58 posted on 11/23/2014 5:41:44 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: knak
Why whites don’t understand black segregation


             

59 posted on 11/23/2014 5:42:38 PM PST by tomkat
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

“.I remember the secret service dropping the homely one off every morning.”

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The homely one?

For heaven’s sake,grow up.

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60 posted on 11/23/2014 5:42:42 PM PST by Mears
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