[FLAUSA]

You describe a very real problem in the black community, illegitimacy. Illegitimace begets poverty. Poverty begets the need for social services. The need for social services means that poor blacks move to cities where social services are more readily available. Hence the concentration of blacks in inter-city school districts.

But one of the points that I'm trying (unsuccesfully) to make is that hispanics are classified as non-white when the majority of hispanics are white. If we didn't use the classification of "hispanics" our schools would appear to be more integrated. It's all in how you run the numbers.

As a diclaimer, I am classified as hispanic, but consider myself white.

[tsomer]

"Illegitimace begets poverty. Poverty begets the need for social services. The need for social services means that poor blacks move to cities where social services are more readily available. Hence the concentration of blacks in inter-city school districts. "

I used to live in the city, back when I was a Democrat. One year paying taxes in the average American city will erase all political delusions.

The only industry that remains in the American city is the one involved in the procurement and control government funding. The acceptance of methadone clinics, halfway houses and homeless shelters is invariably a part of any urban redevelopment largesse. Obviously anyone with the means chooses to live somewhere, anywhere, else. I suspect that the surrounding suburban communities support these initiatives in order to keep those "services" away. Protection money? It's not done out of kindness, you can bet.

The government has been in the ghetto business for the last thirty-plus years.