Desperately seeking diversity on Long Island...

[Old Spice]

Originally Posted by lauricellac

What I learned is that not all but some poor/low income neighborhoods that are once race and not all the people are like this but there are many people in these neighborhoods and stare and are suprised when other races come into the town and drive through it and some of they are not accepting of them that is a town that ver sperated which is not a good , If you have a bad neighborhood I don't care what race of people live the people are just rude, loud, mean, not accepting, stare at you for no reason, Like I said not all people in poor areas are like that but many of them are. If People live in a nice neighboorhood that is not mixed genreally they are accept to other people as long they ruin the town and the house values. Not saying I hate poor poeple but many of them just have that I don't give a **** about anything or anyone mantality I hate people like that. there are people who want to live dangerous area but I think they are personally stupid why would anyone purposely want to live in a area where they and their kids will feel very unsafe that makes no sense at all.

Huh?

[fred5]

Deer Park, Glenn Cove, Baldwin - maybe East Massapequa west of Carmans Road (you get the Massapequa mailing address but it's in the Amityville school district if that's going to be a deal breaker for you).

[homeowner35]

I have a friend who is a black physician and she lives in Freeport. She likes it a lot. I believe it is diverse. I think Elmont is also nice but it may be predominately black.

[fred5]

Originally Posted by fred5

Deer Park, Glenn Cove, Baldwin - maybe East Massapequa west of Carmans Road (you get the Massapequa mailing address but it's in the Amityville school district if that's going to be a deal breaker for you).

For East Massapequa I meant east of Carmans Road btw.

[hotkarl]

There is no such thing as "diverse" on LI.
You have either predominately black neighborhoods or predominately white neighborhoods. It's one or the other.
The problem is finding one of these neighborhoods that are more accepting of the opposite race. And there are many out there, fortunately maybe more than not.
But like I've said before in another thread, you could move into the most unbiased and friendly community on LI but end up moving on the same block or next door to the town racist. That's just the LI way, everything is basically a crapshoot.
Plenty of good people here, but also just as many Moderator cut: language

[lots o' bling in baldwin]

[quote=hotkarl;11330569]There is no such thing as "diverse" on LI.
You have either predominately black neighborhoods or predominately white neighborhoods. It's one or the other.
The problem is finding one of these neighborhoods that are more accepting of the opposite race. And there are many out there, fortunately maybe more than not.
But like I've said before in another thread, you could move into the most unbiased and friendly community on LI but end up moving on the same block or next door to the town racist. That's just the LI way, everything is basically a crapshoot.
Plenty of good people here, but also just as many[quote]


Not to be Wu-Tang'd but here in The big B hood it's bout 50% White boyz, 40% homies, 10% Hispanical. But I'm seein more and more obamas movin in erday.

[GCGuy]

Originally Posted by Smash255

True, however my point was directed at the post which suggested the majority of prisoners were black which was false. As of June 30th 2008 according to the DOJ 42.4% of Prisoners were white, 39.2% were black, 16.4% were Hispanic.

So yes while there are more whites in prison than blacks, a higher % of blacks are in prison than whites. Several factors for this. One of which is Reagan era drug laws, which resulted in basically the same drug having very different sentencing guidelines. This of course being the way cocaine and crack have been dealt with. You also have the socio-economic and poverty factor. Poverty and crime tend to go hand in hand (no matter what the race or ethnicity) blacks tend to have much higher poverty rates than whites. Socio-economic standing tend to be much greater indicators of crime than race or ethnicity.

Not only does being poorer and having more poverty lead to crime, but it also leads to more people being found guilty of crimes they didn't commit. Who do you think is more likely of being found guilty of a crime they didn't commit (or for that matter get off of a crime they did commit) someone with the ability to afford a high price lawyer or someone with a public defender?

Sometimes, I wish I lived in LaLa Land, too.

[GCGuy]

[quote=lots o' bling in baldwin;11331055][quote=hotkarl;11330569]There is no such thing as "diverse" on LI.
You have either predominately black neighborhoods or predominately white neighborhoods. It's one or the other.
The problem is finding one of these neighborhoods that are more accepting of the opposite race. And there are many out there, fortunately maybe more than not.
But like I've said before in another thread, you could move into the most unbiased and friendly community on LI but end up moving on the same block or next door to the town racist. That's just the LI way, everything is basically a crapshoot.
Plenty of good people here, but also just as many

Not to be Wu-Tang'd but here in The big B hood it's bout 50% White boyz, 40% homies, 10% Hispanical. But I'm seein more and more obamas movin in erday.

Baldwin and Freeport were nice...at one time.