Heard it from my Italian landlady in New Orleans, back in 1975. She told me how young black punks intimidated her on the street in her old West Bank neighborhood of Westwego. Never with white men around, three or four of them would surround her on the street, and the lead punk would get up in her face and ask, nastily, "You still here?"
Frighten the women, they'll move away, and the men will have to go with them if the women won't stay. Those little b*stards knew exactly what they were doing, and the Com-MUNE-a-tee </off Shiela Jackson Lee> knew what they were doing, too, and didn't jerk them up straight. The white community got policed by the FBI; where were the FBI when it was time for "demographic change" (or we'll beat your white ass until you can't stand up)?
Also, for the reading-inclined, described at some length by Theodore White in his Making of the President 1964, in his chapter about the New York race riots that impacted US politics that year.
“well, you can go visit the neighborhoods that used to be Italian but they were driven out due to brutal crime by guess who? then get back to me.”
I can tell you that things worked differently in NY. They didnt wait for a crime wave. The first black family on a block caused a cascade of selling since they knew the property values were going to plummet (and they did).
Thanks for the article.
You are right about the women being afraid so the men have to move too.
I would move very close to a black neighborhood on Staten Island because the prices are great and they’re still 70 or more percent white. (just MUCH closer to bad neighborhoods)
But how can I without worrying about my better half after nightfall?
The story you told me about New Orleans is a familiar and disgusting one