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.
Probably because we have a 'racist' aversion to being mugged, robbed, beaten or killed in our beds.
Why do I need to understand it?
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...
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.
I’m all out of concern. I’m empathized-out.
“Vastly fewer whites live surrounded by just other white people. Whites look around and see multi-ethnic neighbors.”
The major fallacy to this whole “analysis” is that it doesn’t address the impact of white flight on “vastly fewer whites” being surrounded “by just other white people”. In other words, are most “multi-ethnic” neighborhoods simply the result of formerly all-white neighborhoods being hollowed out from fleeing whites and the whites left behind are simply too old and/or too poor to flee as well?
“Whites, Asians and Hispanics are not moving into those neighborhoods,”
No shit.
I won’t click on the link for WP. I’ll just say that over the last 20 years, what I have seen is that white neighborhoods have had people of color move in. Then, the whites start moving out and soon the neighborhood has no whites left.
Ferguson in the 1990s was 75% white. It’s much less than that now, and it wasn’t just due to black people moving in. After the current violence, how many white people will stay? For that matter, no one of any color, red, yellow, black or white will stay or move into the town, if they have half a brain.
Actions have consequences.
So it is segregation to avoid buying into a possibly hostile neighborhood?
Spike Lee ranted a year or so ago about white people (and hipsters) buying into the neighborhood he grew up in.
It’s too obvious why. How can white families live in the city when you either have gangs pushing you out, your children are being harassed at school, your property values are going down, crime rates going up. So whites move out and then blacks complain that they’re “segregated” and whitey is keeping them down with no jobs, schools not getting enough funding, etc. don’t they realize they did it to themselves? In Chicago-land even moving to the burbs has made some of it inescapable because the mayor decided to tear down some of the public housing and spread them out to the burbs to live on section 8. Thankfully the few on my block don’t cause trouble (except for pot-dealing) but I hear the majority of his buyer’s are the older white people on the block lol. (myself not included.)
When I was at SUNY & Stony Brook, a VERY politically liberal school, even though it’s best known for schools of physics, engineering, & medicine, there were rules against any sort of segregation, EXCEPT when it came to Blacks.
But it wasn’t the school that did the segregation, but the Black population. There were certain dorms (or floors) that the administration bent over backwards to accommodate the demands of the Black students to stay together. There was also a “Black fraternity” (I can’t recall the name), but while they couldn’t actually say “no whites allowed,” that was the general opinion.
Mark
Even more in town, pop of about 15k, prob 6k are black. Of course, 5.5k are guests of TDCJ, but hey, they're still there!
All the kids are moving to Crown Heights and Bushwick. Bed-Stuy is next. Can Brownsville be far behind?