Michelle O attacks "white flight". Obama mansions are in WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD

[christiefan915]

Could be. How to know? Is there some lily black wealthy community that was more convenient that he pressed past to get there?

Bottom line is there isn't a certain way to tease out the wealth from the race to determine whether or not any person was motivated
for one reason or the other unless they admit it. But it is fair to assume the sheer existence of lily white communities of wealth
contain people who are racist and exclude black people who have money. PS there are black people in Marin. It's not a gated community.
PPS and off topic, they are stuck with a substandard courthouse forever just because the architect is a sacred cow.

Here is a poser: Is it racist to avoid real estate in a community with black people because you fear that it depresses real estate values that
impacts your own but not because you don't like black people? Racism can be a reality that affects things without a person being racist herself?

^ Using my own neighborhood as an example, anybody who moves here has to be able to afford a house in a certain price range. We're not uppity-up but above middle in house prices. The minorities who live here keep up with house and lawn maintenance and contribute to the community, just like the whites. Being a minority hasn't depressed the real estate values because they stay current with their mortgages and do all the other routine repairs and maintenance homeowners have to do.

Poor people of any color couldn't afford to buy here so that's not a factor in depressing RE values.

 

[cawacko]

Could be. How to know? Is there some lily black wealthy community that was more convenient that he pressed past to get there?

Bottom line is there isn't a certain way to tease out the wealth from the race to determine whether or not any person was motivated
for one reason or the other unless they admit it. But it is fair to assume the sheer existence of lily white communities of wealth
contain people who are racist and exclude black people who have money. PS there are black people in Marin. It's not a gated community.
PPS and off topic, they are stuck with a substandard courthouse forever just because the architect is a sacred cow.

Here is a poser: Is it racist to avoid real estate in a community with black people because you fear that it depresses real estate values that
impacts your own but not because you don't like black people? Racism can be a reality that affects things without a person being racist herself?

Marin is 84% white and Kentfield where he moved in 90% white. San Rafael has a working class area to it and a decent Hispanic community. Marin City is the one area with much of a black population. (that area is even starting to gentrify and I helped contribute flipping a home there a few years back) But other than that Marin County is white. And they have wanted it to be that way for a long time as they would not let BART come to Marin when it was being built.

I agree that it's hard to tease out why people moved other than when you have money you tend to want to live in the nicer (nicest) area possible with the best schools.

 

[StoneByStone]

For centuries white people have been saying they don't want to live near minorities, and then moving to prove it. In some circles it's acceptable to talk that way. Michelle explained how minorities like her family wanted nothing more than to improve their circumstances and be treated equally, yet when they moved into a "whiter" neighborhood, people acted like they were lepers.

Michelle explained the other side of the "I don't want to live around minorities" argument and people are freaking out because she did. Strange.

People are freaking out because we're sick of the anti-white bullshit. Yes, most white people rather live in a white neighborhood. Why is that so wrong? Why is she talking about it like that makes us Klansmen?
I wonder if she had a problem with her husband going to a Black Nationalist church.

 

[Charoite]

What kind of racist statement is that? What makes you think only blacks live in poorer neighborhoods?

I never said they did. The whole issue isn't that no one wants to live around blacks like the trolltard tries to play out. It's that many people don't want to live in poor, shady, or rundown communities. It isn't about race it's about the shape of your surroundings. You'd think that would be common knowledge. Now that being said, there is still a sad statistic people do have to face to make things better. It's a sad fact that the majority of residents in many poorer neighborhoods are blacks. It's an effect segregation made that has slowly been reversing with the newer generations that have access to education, supplies, you name it, that those that came before them didn't.

 

[Charoite]

Here's a question for people bringing up gentrification. Have you ever stopped letting pride get in the way and thought about this ditty from their side of the situation? If I changed the term gentrification into more literal terms and called it pricing people out of their neighborhoods, would that open some eyes?

 

[cawacko]

Here's a question for people bringing up gentrification. Have you ever stopped letting pride get in the way and thought about this ditty from their side of the situation? If I changed the term gentrification into more literal terms and called it pricing people out of their neighborhoods, would that open some eyes?

Who is letting pride getting in the way? Those doing the gentrifying or those being gentrified?

 

[christiefan915]

People are freaking out because we're sick of the anti-white bullshit. Yes, most white people rather live in a white neighborhood. Why is that so wrong? Why is she talking about it like that makes us Klansmen?
I wonder if she had a problem with her husband going to a Black Nationalist church.

You sound like you've had personal experience with what you're calling anti-white bullshit. I can't relate. I've been white all my life and never faced discrimination because of it. I've felt discrimination more as a female in the workplace.

 

[StoneByStone]

You sound like you've had personal experience with what you're calling anti-white bullshit. I can't relate. I've been white all my life and never faced discrimination because of it. I've felt discrimination more as a female in the workplace.

You're viewing anti-white bullshit right now. White people are the ONLY race that gets called racist for choosing to live around people of their own race. And yes, other races do this too.
I'm willing to venture that you have experienced anti-white sentiment without noticing it, since we're all taught that it doesn't exist.