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Here is some anecdotal evidence of a key point I was making. Thanks
Baltimore even had racial zoning.
If you read some of the stuff surrounding that nutcase rogue cop in Los Angeles, it seems clear the LA cops still have some serious issues with regard to racial relations. All indicators I have seen show Cincinnati making pretty good strides in that area since 2001. Not to say everything is perfect, but it isn't perfect anywhere. Cincy's police chief is now black (the riots were about police behavior), the mayor and city manager are black, the economic development director is black, city council has a black majority, etc... All while there are still more white residents than black residents, and white residents make up a disproportionate segment of voters. A Tea Party group is allied with the local NAACP -- if that's not racial harmony, I don't know what is.
Crime went way up after the riots, but it's come way down since then. It was a complicated thing to understand, and the aftermath and healing is even more complicated. Using it to prove how racist Cincinnatians are is a convenient simplification of a complex issue. Frankly, getting that strife out of our system might have advanced the city past others in the region. It put a lot of things out in the open which were then addressed and attempted to be dealt with. Aside from some of the things I already mentioned, the revitalization of Over-the-Rhine, and the good faith attempt to keep it mixed-income, is a living example.
and I forgot about LA heck i was out their in the 90s, crime was bad if you wore the wrong cloths one day you could be killed just because it might be a sign of a gang like the bloods. If you wore red when driving through East Compton you probably wouldve got killed. No Joke.
Cali isn't this discussion about Indianapolis vs Columbus vs Cincinnati? What does NYC, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Atlanta, Baltimore, Philly, St Louis have to do with it? Cincinnati has had more race issue than Indy and Columbus entire combined histories.
Maybe if you read my earlier post you would've saw what it had to do with the cities.
You are stating an error in fact. It was Vanderburgh County which is the Evansville Metropolitan area that was the center of Klan activity in Indiana. The Evansville Klavern was the most powerful in the state. Surprising Indianapolis for a major city has seen very little racial tension. In 1995 there were arrest when a disturbance broke out during a demonstration involving the beating and arrest of Danny Sales by the police. That is about as close to a race riot that Indianapolis has experienced to date. I'm not saying that Indianapolis is an utopian society but it certainly hasn't experience the racial turmoil that has embattled Cincinnati.
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