New Foundland

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Originally Posted by kkgg7

It amazes me how hypercritical people get by pretending race doesn't matter at all. Just out of curiosity, how many of the "race doesn't matter" white guys will choose to live in a neighborhood where 80% of the residents are black and feel completely comfortable, putting crime rates aside?

The OP does have his right to ask questions like "are there many black people" considering he may put his wife and daughter on the street, as statistically speaking, there is a high correlation between racial composition of a neighborhood and crime rate, no offense to any black men and women.

We are supposed to be politically correct, but oftentimes our own behavior doesn't really reflect what we claim.

To answer your question, I would have no problem living in a neighbourhood where 80 percent of the residents are black, putting crime rates aside.

You are probably right though that oftentimes are own behaviour doesn't reflect what we claim. However, wrt the OP, if the OP meant to ask about high crime rates in Newfoundland, I would have supposed that he or she would have asked about high crime rates. Race isn't the first thing that comes to my mind when I think about areas high in crime - poverty is.

Black and a high crime rate do not necessarily have anything to do with each other.

Now it may be a fact that in some areas the neighbourhoods with high crime rates are mostly black, or in the case of western Canada, mostly occupied by First Nations, but the question, unless one is a racist, is still "what areas are best to avoid due to a high crime rate" not "what neighbourhoods to avoid based on a race."

However, I do agree with the point you make about unemployment, in the post after this. A low rate of unemployment does not mean necessarily there are jobs available in industry-specific area.