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"Black" neighborhoods? What, like segregation? As far as I understand it, people are generally free to move to any neighborhood they'd like.
It has nothing to do with involuntary segregation. Let's face it there are many neighborhoods who are mostly of one race by choice and black ones are one of them. No one is being denied the freedom of moving to any neighborhood they'd like. There are many neighborhoods where Latinos have moved in that blacks were predominant in and they resent it. That is why they are fighting each other in our schools. Probably culture and language clash also.
We had an incident last Spring where a black Dominican student hacked off the hand of another "local" black student with a machete, that type of violence is unheard of in my area.
The problem is so many illegals here from Mexico and other Latino countries. It is changing the demographics of many towns especially here in the southwest. This causes resentment in neighborhoods who were predominantly black.
The problem also exists in Texas as well. Turf and gang wars. Both minority groups are into gangs and with gangs come violence.
When my son was in HS there were doors the Hispanics used and doors the Blacks used. All others could use either door with no problems. The school denied there were any problems even when gang colors started showing up at school. Total denial because stuff like that didn't happen in "middle class suburbia".
A lot of times you have feeder schools (middle/elementary)that are in segregated neighborhoods and they have no problems. Then the kids move onto HS and these feeder schools feed into a single huge school. That's where the clashes occur. My son's graduating class had 450 students so that's like 1800 total students at that HS.
You obviously don't know about the birth of Hiphop.
Not everything about diversity is a plus. Depends on how assimilated a minority group becomes. The opposite is trying to change a neighborhood to their own culture and language rather than blending with the old one.
Not everything about diversity is a plus. Depends on how assimilated a minority group becomes. The opposite is trying to change a neighborhood to their own culture and language rather than blending with the old one.
Multiculturalism doesn't seem to work well with minorities.
Black neighborhoods are basically being taken over by hispanics. Yes by illegal immigration mostly. This creates tension & a feeling of un-trust when there is no assimilation.
You nailed it both cause and effect. Additionally, many hispanics, especially the illegal ones are very ethocentric and territorial. I have seen what they do neighborhoods first hand. One family moves in and the spray painting/ "barrio look" (i.e. colorful mexican caracatures and gang symbols) start cropping up everywhere. Once they begin marking their territory the turf wars and fight for race based dominance begins.
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