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If the segregationists wanted to be kept apart because all blacks were like the ones in the article then it would sound more like it was about class rather than race.
Not tricky at all, if you understood the premise of segregationist movements like this. It had nothing to do with income group, but everything to do with race.
As a matter of fact, the whole premise of this thread is apologetic to that idea people like me was a thing of the past.
For those who claim whites are racist for "white flight" - wanting to get away from poor people culture in the city by running away to the suburbs, what do you think of blacks doing the same?
"There is classism within the black community. The foreclosure crisis may be accelerating it." Cashin adds, "Middle-class blacks, like middle-class whites, are also put off by behavior of impoverished blacks who 'have developed their own culture, one that is very different from mainstream America.'"
Your talking about human nature here....this isn't an issue about black and white. For someone to be surprised that classism exists within the black race means that the surprised is clearly DUMB! What next? Shock that black people in America cry, laugh, and get moody sometimes?
White flight started when blacks moved into neighborhoods where they had an equivalent income of families in the white neighborhood they moved into. There was only one reason the white families moved, and this was because they did not want to live near blacks.
Blacks are the same as all other races whey they have money. When poorer people move into the neighborhood, Americans in general become concerned that their schools will decline and crime will increase.
That's a lot different than moving away because of the color of one's skin. You cannot reasonably say they are doing the same.
wow way too much common sense in this post. I demand it be deleted so we can bicker about nonsense
For those who claim whites are racist for "white flight" - wanting to get away from poor people culture in the city by running away to the suburbs, what do you think of blacks doing the same?
"There is classism within the black community. The foreclosure crisis may be accelerating it." Cashin adds, "Middle-class blacks, like middle-class whites, are also put off by behavior of impoverished blacks who 'have developed their own culture, one that is very different from mainstream America.'"
There were even class distinctions among the slaves. Blacks are no different than whites. My parents grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. After my parents married they eventually moved out to their own place. But the blacks couldn't because they were being red-lined. When one family tried to move out to a white area their house was burned down. This was in a Midwestern college town. What has changed is that blacks can move to where they want for the most part. No news here.
If blacks are ensuring restrictions on whites or other races, they would be as much an idiot as the whites were demanding and forcing segregation. But that doesn't appear to be the case, or is it?
More confusion and obfuscation from you.
Is anything a matter of common sense to you?
Bad behavior knows no race - and I don't want to be its neighbor. That's all.
I feel the need to say I don't care about this issue.
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