PBS-related article concerning white flight

[RCinMT]

You are absolutely right about that.

Here it is:
"For example, higher poverty means higher crime, which means higher costs for crime prevention.

Eventually, commercial investment falls off as well, and basic amenities like grocery stores and banks begin to disappear"

Combine that with a claim made near the beginning of the article:
“The nonwhite middle class is usually not large enough to sustain market demand. (If whites represent 80% of the housing market, then 80% of the potential demand is absent.)”

If not being large enough to “sustain market demand” implies having a higher poverty rate, then the article is implying that any given nonwhite category consists of people who are more likely than whites to be criminals. For example, Japanese-Americans …? I don’t think so. How about Chinatown? Surely there are a lot of Non-whites living in any given city’s Chinatown. However, if Non-whites are only 20% and that isn’t enough to sustain market demand, and the 20% includes not only Chinese-Americans, but all other Non-white Americans, then every Chinatown would be expected to become a zone without banks or grocery stores.

By throwing in enough distractions and code language, the article tricks people into not observing that it is itself a racist article.

Here is an example of code language: “Once residents begin to leave …”

Given the context, it is clear that “residents” is a code word for “white residents” and it is clear that “leaving” doesn’t occur if the white residents are replaced with other white residents.

Perhaps there’s a corresponding population loss with vacated homes in which case there are less residents. Ever been to Gary, IN? When a family of four leaves and is replaced by less people that a net loss of residents has occurred.

Also, perhaps residents also implies people living in area over a prolonged period of time whilst perhaps the new people living in said area are transient in nature.

To always assume whitesare racists is the very definition of racial profiling: you’re ascribing an unflattering charger trait to an entire race of people.

 

[on_the_hill]

Of course it’s the fault of us whiteys…:

I prefer to be called “honkey,” if you don’t mind.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Sometimes “white flight” is deliberately caused. I recall years ago living in a part of St. Louis that once had a lot of Jewish residents, but was now turning into a neighborhood that was mostly black. There were still some Jewish businesses there. Those businesses got broken into or vandalized almost nightly. One by one, those businesses shut down. By and by, new businesses operated by blacks started in those locations. The vandalizing stopped.

I was told (whether reliably or not) that real estate speculators were largely behind it. The Jews would sell out cheaply, and the speculators would then charge the black business people more than the Jews were paying. I was given to understand apartment rents went up too, in a similar way.

Interestingly, that area underwent massive gentrification much later, and is now largely “white” again, but not Jewish.