Segregation, the Neighbor that Won't Leave

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Long read but good:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/milwaukee-segregation-wealthy-black-families.html?_r=0

Basically, black families--even those with good salaries-- are more likely to live in poorer, more crime-ridden neighborhoods because they feel more comfortable around their own kind. The article points out a family that lived in a white neighborhood and then moved out because of police profiling and distrust from the neighbors.

If you had all the money you could ever need, would you rather live in the hood or in Beverly Hills?
 
Neither.

But if I have to pick obviously Beverly Hills neighbors can kiss my *** at the end of the day.
 
Why is the hood or Beverly Hills the only two options.

I would prefer to live around people that looked like me
 
Big house and yard big enough to the point it have to ride a bike to get to my neighbors house to borrow sugar [emoji]128076[/emoji]



It's still ****** up though . Racists suck.
 
KingdomFlatbush said:
Long read but good:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/milwaukee-segregation-wealthy-black-families.html?_r=0


Basically, black families--even those with good salaries-- are more likely to live in poorer, more crime-ridden neighborhoods because they feel more comfortable around their own kind. The article points out a family that lived in a white neighborhood and then moved out because of police profiling and distrust from the neighbors.

If you had all the money you could ever need, would you rather live in the hood or in Beverly Hills?
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Thanks or the article, will check it out. Comments before I read:

This is not only driven by taste preferences from African Americans (wanting to be around their people), but also rampant discrimination in the housing market to this day, and black families knowing the ******** they will have to deal with moving into all white neighborhoods.

But also, there is middle ground. I lived in Maryland most of the time I have been in the states, where there are plenty of affluent black, and mixed, neighborhoods.

-While I have debate this topic with my friends and colleagues, I do feel the best course of action is for black people to be spread out and mixed within their towns, cities and states. Besides the criminal justice system, housing market/system is one of the major ways white supremacy flexes its muscles on blacks.

Not go it alone. But have lil pockets in every corner of the city.

Once you group black people together you know which schools need to be under funded, to let drug and guns be allowed into, for its infrastructure to crumble, for highways to be built through, and for police to excessively ticket. You zip code even becomes a way for computers to flag you for you to pay more for loans, insurance, and be denied other services.

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Personally, I would like yo find a nice diverse neighborhood. I prefer living around my people, some of my best neighbors have been folk from all different background.
 
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Been pondering on this as I get older & home ownership comes closer into view. Have the convo with my Mom all the time & I love my ppl but I'm not tryna live in the hood & I certainly don't wanna live up under a bunch of white folk either. It would be nice to see the middle to upper middle majority minority families invest in subdivisions together & build from there
 
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Middle ground. I'm in the suburbs but not in the rich holier than thou type joints. Actually the city I'm in is predominantly middle eastern. But the detroit public school system is one of the worse ever, I know from experience so my son would never go to a school there then it's just way safer to stay on the outskirts.
 
I grew up in a white neighborhood with my black family most of my life. The amount of nonsense my parents have to put up with their neighbors was ridiculous.

People would steal my mom's flowers off her porch, steal her flag's from our flagpost, throw garbage on our lawn, have their dogs doodoo on our lawn, and countless other annoying things. My mom has problems till this day with both of our next door neighbors. Whole time this is going on I am just thinking why even live over here. We should of lived somewhere else. 
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ShotsRangOut said:
I grew up in a white neighborhood with my black family most of my life. The amount of nonsense my parents have to put up with their neighbors was ridiculous.

People would steal my mom's flowers off her porch, steal her flag's from our flagpost, throw garbage on our lawn, have their dogs doodoo on our lawn, and countless other annoying things. My mom has problems till this day with both of our next door neighbors. Whole time this is going on I am just thinking why even live over here. We should of lived somewhere else. :smh:  
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**** like that pisses me off. that's ******* disgusting.
 
this entire thread is not only indicative of how far we are from any kind of "racial harmony," but shows that humanity as a whole may not even be ready to live in a truly integrated fashion.

segregation--of all kinds--is just so deeply ingrained in what we are.
 
Ppl tend to live around their own ...if you black and have money you don't have to live in the hood to be round your ppl, it's mixed or majority black suburbs/sections of some cities where it's not all poor ppl
 
ShotsRangOut said:
 
I grew up in a white neighborhood with my black family most of my life. The amount of nonsense my parents have to put up with their neighbors was ridiculous.

People would steal my mom's flowers off her porch, steal her flag's from our flagpost, throw garbage on our lawn, have their dogs doodoo on our lawn, and countless other annoying things. My mom has problems till this day with both of our next door neighbors. Whole time this is going on I am just thinking why even live over here. We should of lived somewhere else. 
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damn son where are you from?
 
same with asians. rich asians stick with their own communities.

I moved out to the burbs and everyone looking at me as if I got a third eye or some ****. everyone assumes that I don't speak English, then I talk to them and they look at me as if im jesus.
 
Spent a good portion of my life in a predominantly black neighborhood.

ClIffs

- Everyone was really nice.

- Friends were made.

- Foods were exchanged.

- We're more alike than we are different was learned.
 
neighborhood is 95% black. Cool with my immediate neighbors everytime. every one else on the block i don't mess with...btw I'm Latino...Usually people think I don't speak english.. You would think by the way i dress its obvious  i do...Matter of fact i had a homeboy come down to give me a jump and one of dudes down the street was in awe that a black guy was at my drive way...same thing when a black chick comes over..

Baton Rouge, Louisiana
 
Wavy Daddy said:
I need a house wit the acres
So i dont gotta worry bout the neighbors
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My family has a farm in Georgia, with a lot of acreage, someone stole from it once. Also, dudes trespass and hunt the wild turkeys, that can be seen on the land. The more land/acres, sometimes can be worse.

You could have a 1,000 acres of land, if it's not properly monitored of secured. Theives will have a field day.

I'm black, btw.
 
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