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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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: race
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To: RightGeek
Just so. The reason there are all black neighborhoods is that there are a residue of people, not only those who cannot manage to move out, but those who stay to prey on the vulnerable. No one should be expected to move in, where there is crime, bad schools, punks running the streets and shooting each other on Saturday nights.

Does anyone else sense that this article is totally vapid and meaningless?

81 posted on 11/23/2014 6:02:46 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Vince Ferrer

They’re good people. The youngest daughter is working part time at the little party store here in town and both parents are retired.


82 posted on 11/23/2014 6:02:59 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: The Toll

“20 year old waitresses in Tokyo don’t have to pay extra to live in a “safe” neighborhood. Civilization was a cool idea.”

When I lived in Japan, there were a few neighborhoods known for a fair amount of crime (by Japanese standards), but I COULDN’T AFFORD TO LIVE IN THEM.

Yes, civilization is good.


83 posted on 11/23/2014 6:03:57 PM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: mylife
As someone who earlier in life decided to buy a house and live in the hood (South Dekalb Co. Georgia), I can tell you that it sucks - not just for me, but mainly for the blacks living there. They live in an untrusting cesspool of low expectations America. The store scanners would often ring up prices higher than marked. When you paid cash for gas, the pumps would slow down 80 cents before ending instead of the 10 cents before ending in white neighborhoods. It is as if they think that somehow you are going to steal gas if they don't slow them down that far ahead. So you sit there for an extra minute waiting on that last 80 cents to pump.

The nearby McDonalds didn't serve milk shakes because their machine was broken. In the eight years I lived there, they never fixed the machine. Can you imagine a McDonalds franchise that did not serve milk shakes? Yet in the black neighborhood, that was situation normal.

I once bought a box of macaroni and cheese at the local Wynfield Foods grocery store. When I got home, I opened the cheese packet and noticed it was brown. Quickly checking the date on the box, I realized that it was five years out of date. FIVE YEARS! Yet they had no problem selling something that old to the black residents of that neighborhood.

And the most frustrating thing of all, is that black people were running each of these stores. It sucks living in a black neighborhood. Yet this is what these black people had to live with. Sure the schools suck. Sure there were occasional gun shots going off at night. Sure people did not have the money for the upkeep of their houses. But the little things show a different standard - a much lower one - that is being settled for in their community because they see no way of changing it. And the crazy thing is that they know deep down that white people won't put up with that crap. Yet they have no white people here to complain to.

84 posted on 11/23/2014 6:05:17 PM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: Ken522

Hamilton park; Newark ave & Monmouth st (*Marcianos gym will be the nexus) to the river and tunnel entrance is just about gentrified. 30 years ago, it was the hood. Grove st and Newport pavonia is business stops.

I used to take the train from hazlet to Newark to JC to box when I was 16.

I hit a dude with sock stuffed with my gym locker in ‘88., they were going to kick the craps out out of me.

Punched the first guy , knocked his arse out on shot. Hit the other guy with my sock with a lock.

My dad told me to put the lock in the sock; good advice.

Till this day, I can hear that wimper.


85 posted on 11/23/2014 6:07:25 PM PST by guyfromjrz (fresh breath, it speaks for itself.)
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To: knak
Whites don't understand black segregation because, like so many other "black" maladies, this one is a figment of some victim's imagination. If blacks are segregated, it's because they choose to be. And if the nests where they live are fouled, it's because THEY foul them.

Instead of whites struggling to understand (fictional) black segregation, how about blacks spend some time trying to understand white inclusion?

86 posted on 11/23/2014 6:13:58 PM PST by IronJack
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To: mylife

It’s no more difficult than this:

Detroit led U.S. in murder, crime rates, FBI says

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2014/11/10/detroit-led-us-murder-crime-rates-fbi-says/18793923/


87 posted on 11/23/2014 6:16:30 PM PST by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: knak

In many if not most of the areas that have an all black population a white person can get robbed, beaten, murdered, etc. just for being there. That sure sounds like a place I would like to live. Not.


88 posted on 11/23/2014 6:18:14 PM PST by Tammy8
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To: knak

Who is responsible for black segregation in our inner cities? Most whites don’t care for black sports like knockout games, drive by shootings, gang rapes....

Blacks who aren’t satisfied with plantation living should quit voting for Democrats, and find jobs before the illegals get all of them.


89 posted on 11/23/2014 6:19:38 PM PST by pallis
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To: Mr Rogers
Obama can sign an executive order requiring whites whose SSN ends in 3 or 7 to immediately move into the inner city

I'm safe, mine ends in 5.

90 posted on 11/23/2014 6:20:57 PM PST by Graybeard58 ( O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. Ps 34:3)
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To: knak

urban feral blacks have driven away all other races. why live around an out of control freaking pit bull?


91 posted on 11/23/2014 6:21:58 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bicyclerepair

the liberal who brings up race is the racist. if i have to bring it up i know it’s racism b/c it’s the last thing i’m thinking about.


92 posted on 11/23/2014 6:28:47 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: knak

no whites in the neighborhood left to blame their problems on.


93 posted on 11/23/2014 6:29:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: knak

This is awful.


94 posted on 11/23/2014 6:29:41 PM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
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To: knak

I’ve yet to see an article that starts; Why Blacks Just Don’t Understand Why Whites........


95 posted on 11/23/2014 6:34:29 PM PST by Poison Pill
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To: knak
Whites, Asians and Hispanics are not moving into those neighborhoods,

Ah...Sherlock Holmes wrote this study.

96 posted on 11/23/2014 6:37:52 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: knak

It’s self-segregation and comes about when you attack your own for “acting white”.


97 posted on 11/23/2014 6:39:34 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Dallas59

Mine either, and being called a racist won’t shame me into a thing. I don’t even hear it anymore, it’s like all the witless reflexive profanity flying around these days. I just don’t hear it.


98 posted on 11/23/2014 6:41:13 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: knak

The entire premise of the article is that more diverse neighborhoods offer more opportunity and so blacks are at a disadvantage. There is no evidence that this is true other than the left believes it.


99 posted on 11/23/2014 6:57:18 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: 50sDad
Gandhi taught the Indians that the British saw them as inferior "woggies", and the only way to free India was to make the Brits realize that the Indians were just like them. He showed the masses (some of them who were militant killers out for blood) that they needed to get educated, work hard, make something of themselves, and be peaceful. In the end, the Brits became embarrassed by their own bigotry, and they changed their ways, and ultimately granted India freedom. Again, do this, and racism disappears in a generation. Work hard, fit in, be noble. And you can do this by respecting people, respecting yourself, and fitting in. And for God's sake, learn to speak clear "business English". And pull your pants up.

Ghandi was an Indian talking to Indians, so the heard him and acted on his words.

What American Blacks need is a liberal Black American they respect to tell them those exact same things: "Again, do this, and racism disappears in a generation. Work hard, fit in, be noble. And you can do this by respecting people, respecting yourself, and fitting in. And for God's sake, learn to speak clear "business English". And pull your pants up."

It worked for Ghandi and the Indians, and it would work for American Blacks, too - and in doing so, utterly destroy the Democrat Plantation powerbase.

If only we had someone here who could say these things like Cosby did in India...

Oops, what did I say?

100 posted on 11/23/2014 7:09:35 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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