Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Where Did YT Go?

AUBURN GRESHAM — In 1965, the invisible red line — marking where African Americans could and could not get mortgages in certain parts of town ...

Some key passages:
But most of their white neighbors immediately fled to the suburbs.
“We did not encounter very much racism other than people were in a hurry to move out,” Fifer said. “You would go to bed and when you woke up in the morning three neighbors would move away.”
And why would their white neighbors flee?
 Together they keep close watch over each other and protect the block that brought them together from the evil that lurks nearby — the open-air dope deals, sidewalk robberies and violent men with guns that surround them.
and...
 In the Gresham police district, there has been a steady stream of drug arrests, burglaries, robberies and violent crime and gun cases for years.
Why, in the Gresham police district (6th district), is there a "steady
stream of drug arrests, burglaries and violent crime and gun cases" ?

and...
“It was 7 in the morning, a year or so ago, and a woman was being chased by a young man who was trying to assault her. Someone heard screaming and we called around on the telephone tree,” Fifer said.
Which brings us back to this quote:
“We did not encounter very much racism other than people were in a hurry to move out,” Fifer said. “You would go to bed and when you woke up in the morning three neighbors would move away.”
Black people tend to exhibit an enormous lack of self awareness.
Cause and effect is a totally foreign concept. Black neighborhoods
tend to be deplorable places simply because a community is just the
sum total of it's inhabitants and their collective actions. It's as
simple as that.

Reminds me of the joke... What word beginning with "N" and ending
with "R" do you never want to call a black person?

Neighbor...
 

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