Racism: Failing now, failing tomorrow, failing forever

My friend just posted this on Facebook this morning, he must have been following our discussion:


""Notice the most dangerous cities in California. You will see Oakland, San Francisco and East Palo Alto are not on the list. Now these cities make the list of some of the most expensive places to live in California. The classic bait and switch has happened over the last 20 years. Now the hood that was once East Oakland is in Stockton and the violence that went with it. This was a well thought out plan. Bait and switch and people fell for it left and right. Now you are priced out trapped in the new hoods. Only 17 African Americans bought homes in Oakland last year. Prime real estate gone!- Shawn G.""



So basically he's talking about (white) gentrification of the cities. So here's the opposite to your OP and what you called racism. White people moving into largely minority areas would make areas more diverse on paper right? Clearly not all people are fans.

When my family moved to Oakland in 1981 it was 50% black. Today it is 25% black, 25% Hispanic, 25% Asian and 25% white. On paper a perfect diverse mix. Ask many black people though and they'll say like my friend does that blacks have lost the City and a lot of their culture went with it.
 
cawacko said:
My friend just posted this on Facebook this morning, he must have been following our discussion:


""Notice the most dangerous cities in California. You will see Oakland, San Francisco and East Palo Alto are not on the list. Now these cities make the list of some of the most expensive places to live in California. The classic bait and switch has happened over the last 20 years. Now the hood that was once East Oakland is in Stockton and the violence that went with it. This was a well thought out plan. Bait and switch and people fell for it left and right. Now you are priced out trapped in the new hoods. Only 17 African Americans bought homes in Oakland last year. Prime real estate gone!- Shawn G.""



So basically he's talking about (white) gentrification of the cities. So here's the opposite to your OP and what you called racism. White people moving into largely minority areas would make areas more diverse on paper right? Clearly not all people are fans.

When my family moved to Oakland in 1981 it was 50% black. Today it is 25% black, 25% Hispanic, 25% Asian and 25% white. On paper a perfect diverse mix. Ask many black people though and they'll say like my friend does that blacks have lost the City and a lot of their culture went with it.
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LOL..so crazy..
 
cawacko said:
There are black people that live in Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Hollywood Hills etc. (wealthy areas that are largely white). Blacks just happen to make up a smaller percentage of the population and we all know about the wealth disparity.

I can't say I've heard any black folk say they wouldn't move to Beverly Hills because people there would look down upon them. I would imagine they like living around other black people. I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing if that's what they desire.
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Off-topic but I hear today that your pal Ryan took a bad hit to the face from a fast ball. It was all over the news. He's doing better but is going to need surgery when the swelling goes down. The team is saying he did not suffer a concussion, which is good.
 
christiefan915 said:
Off-topic but I hear today that your pal Ryan took a bad hit to the face from a fast ball. It was all over the news. He's doing better but is going to need surgery when the swelling goes down. The team is saying he did not suffer a concussion, which is good.
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Yeah, scary stuff. We've been texting with his wife at the hospital and she was saying as he was coming off the field he kept saying he was going to lose his eye. Doesn't sound like that will happen fortunately. But ugh, I can't imagine...
 
cawacko said:
My friend just posted this on Facebook this morning, he must have been following our discussion:


""Notice the most dangerous cities in California. You will see Oakland, San Francisco and East Palo Alto are not on the list. Now these cities make the list of some of the most expensive places to live in California. The classic bait and switch has happened over the last 20 years. Now the hood that was once East Oakland is in Stockton and the violence that went with it. This was a well thought out plan. Bait and switch and people fell for it left and right. Now you are priced out trapped in the new hoods. Only 17 African Americans bought homes in Oakland last year. Prime real estate gone!- Shawn G.""



So basically he's talking about (white) gentrification of the cities. So here's the opposite to your OP and what you called racism. White people moving into largely minority areas would make areas more diverse on paper right? Clearly not all people are fans.

When my family moved to Oakland in 1981 it was 50% black. Today it is 25% black, 25% Hispanic, 25% Asian and 25% white. On paper a perfect diverse mix. Ask many black people though and they'll say like my friend does that blacks have lost the City and a lot of their culture went with it.
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The ever elusive multicultural Utopia lol.
 
cawacko said:
My friend just posted this on Facebook this morning, he must have been following our discussion:

""Notice the most dangerous cities in California. You will see Oakland, San Francisco and East Palo Alto are not on the list. Now these cities make the list of some of the most expensive places to live in California. The classic bait and switch has happened over the last 20 years. Now the hood that was once East Oakland is in Stockton and the violence that went with it. This was a well thought out plan. Bait and switch and people fell for it left and right. Now you are priced out trapped in the new hoods. Only 17 African Americans bought homes in Oakland last year. Prime real estate gone!- Shawn G.""

So basically he's talking about (white) gentrification of the cities. So here's the opposite to your OP and what you called racism. White people moving into largely minority areas would make areas more diverse on paper right? Clearly not all people are fans.

When my family moved to Oakland in 1981 it was 50% black. Today it is 25% black, 25% Hispanic, 25% Asian and 25% white. On paper a perfect diverse mix. Ask many black people though and they'll say like my friend does that blacks have lost the City and a lot of their culture went with it.
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That's funny. We have gentrification going on in our North Side (near the stadiums) here and I haven't heard those stories. It seems like the same situation has different result depending on the coast.
 
christiefan915 said:
That's funny. We have gentrification going on in our North Side (near the stadiums) here and I haven't heard those stories. It seems like the same situation has different result depending on the coast.
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A lot of anti-gentrification folks around the country. We saw white flight from the cities in the '50's and '60's and now we're seeing it reversed. Basically pushing poor people out of the cities and into further out (poor) suburbs.
 
christiefan915 said:
WASHINGTON — Poor, black and Hispanic children are becoming increasingly isolated from their white, affluent peers in the nation’s public schools, according to new federal data showing that the number of high-poverty schools serving primarily black and brown students more than doubled between 2001 and 2014. The data was released by the Government Accountability Office on Tuesday, 62 years to the day after the Supreme Court decided that segregated schools are “inherently unequal” and therefore unconstitutional.

That landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education began the dismantling of the dual school systems — one for white kids, one for black students — that characterized so many of the nation’s communities. It also became a touchstone for the ideal of public education as a great equalizer, an American birthright meant to give every child a fair shot at success.
But that ideal appears to be unraveling, according to Tuesday’s GAO report.

The proportion of schools segregated by race and class — where more than 75 percent of children receive free or reduced-price lunch and more than 75 percent are black or Hispanic — climbed from 9 percent to 16 percent of schools between 2001 and 2014. The number of the most intensively segregated schools — with more than 90 percent of low-income students and students of color — more than doubled over that period. The problem is not just that students are more isolated, according to the GAO, but that minority students who are concentrated in high-poverty schools don’t have the same access to opportunities as students in other schools.

High-poverty, majority-black and Hispanic schools were less likely to offer a full range of math and science courses than other schools, for example, and more likely to use expulsion and suspension as disciplinary tools, according to the GAO.

http://www.bendbulletin.com/nation/4336204-151/report-segregated-schools-are-back-and-failing-again
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There are no two ways around it deep East Oakland is the ghetto. When Oakland top the country's list for murder and was called Cokeland this was the epicenter. You want to talk failing schools we're talking East Oakland. Now we're seeing some gentrification. This article highlights a gay white and Asian couple buying a home in this once largely black partially Hispanic area.

This will bring more diversity to the schools which is what the OP is arguing for. It will also push more black families out of Oakland into cheaper suburbs further out. Some leave willingly because they get bigger homes. Some leave because they are priced out and have no other options.

I'll post a few of the responses from black friends on Facebook to this article:


""My friend bought a home in East Oakland 2.5 years ago per my advice for 250K that house is now worth 600K. There is a reason other ethnic groups are buying in Oakland and Black people are buying in the waste lands. Home buying is a business and closer to the main cities are better investments. Notice this story is about a white and Asian man gay couple.""

""Nothing wrong with that but for some living in the suburbs fits them better...I was born and raised in East Oakland but I dont think I would pay over 300k for any of those houses...I think living in Atlanta for 11yrs changed my perspective""

""To me real estate is a business and I buy where I get the best return on my investment. Real jobs will always be in the city. Black people lost billions in the house scams and gave away more billions moving to the waste lands. We have to be smarter as a people.""

Sizzling housing: Deep East Oakland lures Bay Area homebuyers

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area...ling-housing-deep-east-oakland-lures-bay-area
 
christiefan915 said:
WASHINGTON — Poor, black and Hispanic children are becoming increasingly isolated from their white, affluent peers in the nation’s public schools, according to new federal data showing that the number of high-poverty schools serving primarily black and brown students more than doubled between 2001 and 2014. The data was released by the Government Accountability Office on Tuesday, 62 years to the day after the Supreme Court decided that segregated schools are “inherently unequal” and therefore unconstitutional.

That landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education began the dismantling of the dual school systems — one for white kids, one for black students — that characterized so many of the nation’s communities. It also became a touchstone for the ideal of public education as a great equalizer, an American birthright meant to give every child a fair shot at success.
But that ideal appears to be unraveling, according to Tuesday’s GAO report.

The proportion of schools segregated by race and class — where more than 75 percent of children receive free or reduced-price lunch and more than 75 percent are black or Hispanic — climbed from 9 percent to 16 percent of schools between 2001 and 2014. The number of the most intensively segregated schools — with more than 90 percent of low-income students and students of color — more than doubled over that period. The problem is not just that students are more isolated, according to the GAO, but that minority students who are concentrated in high-poverty schools don’t have the same access to opportunities as students in other schools.

High-poverty, majority-black and Hispanic schools were less likely to offer a full range of math and science courses than other schools, for example, and more likely to use expulsion and suspension as disciplinary tools, according to the GAO.

http://www.bendbulletin.com/nation/4336204-151/report-segregated-schools-are-back-and-failing-again
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When even the NY Times talks about progressives anti-development policies creates inequality and less diverse neighborhoods you know it's bad. Hence the "racism" discussed in the OP.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/0...eflected-in-zoning-laws-thwarts-equality.html
 
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A卐卐HatZombie;1652707 said:
Increasing poverty due to globalist policies, and immigrants taking jobs.
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Whose job did an immigrants take? Yours?

Maybe you should have stayed in school or learned a trade.

Cry to Daddy Trump to make a safe space for you.
 
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