In the St. Louis metro area, a black was elected mayor of East St. Louis way back in 1971. Unfortunately, the population of East St. Louis has dropped from 70,000 in 1970 to 27,000 in 2010 as blacks flee a black run city.
That appears to be a general pattern, with Detroit as the most striking example: blacks follow white leadership around and, in the long run, flee black leadership.
In general, blacks follow around conservative white leadership (e.g., blacks have been net moving to the Republican-run Southern states), and flee liberal white leadership (e.g., San Francisco).
Comments: “leaving behind destitute neighborhoods with no investment or opportunity.” – They want both self determination, and to live in a society built and governed by others, these two goals are mutually contradictory.
Yeah the income gap between Whites and Blacks in Ferguson is smaller because the Whites in Ferguson are just as broke as the Black underclass there.
There are no financially well off Whites living in Ferguson. White people who make good money, tend to not want to live around large swaths of Blacks.
Do you think Steve Sailer would ever live in a zip code that is 67 percent Black ? No way, he makes a decent enough living to be able to afford to live in a Whitopia.
Whites in Ferguson be poor yo, that is why they have not White flighted out of there. They have no rainy day funds.
If segregation is necessarily bad and diversity intrinsically good, why don’t white neighborhoods ever seem to suffer from segregation? why is it only NAMs that suffer from being forced to live amongst only their own kind? Doesn’t this fact imply that NAMs are worse neighbors and need diversity just to live in a decent community where their numbers are watered down?
The official “Narrative” always starts at “White Flight’, but reality starts with “Black Flight”. Blacks flee Black neighborhoods and move to White neighborhoods. Whites then flee. Both flee for the same reason, they don’t want to live in a Black neighborhood.
Ferguson is probably on it’s way to becoming mostly black. Riots, arson, looting and tribal violence will have that effect. It’s been the same thing all over the country for the past fifty years. Entire neighborhoods in Chicago went from mostly white to all black in short periods of time due to black terrorism driving people out. They acquired white’s homes at a fraction of their value as a result. What it really should be called is black terrorism. Any attempt to stand up to it that results in one of the terrorists getting hurt, such as happened to the swaggering thug, is met with outbursts of yet more violence. They’ve managed to get their way all these years by the use of terrorism and threats of it, inducing the rest of society to keep spending more and more money for things like closing gaps, public schools with metal detectors, pre-preschool, midnight basketball and on and on. It’s all money down the rathole. Meanwhile, keep paying barbarian tribute. Or else.
In Baltimore you have the added entertainment of a large Jewish community. For reasons no one has explained, the Jews love the blacks. The Jews move in and begin importing blacks from Baltimore into subsidized housing. The Gentiles flee and you end up with a weird fusion of 1920′s Warsaw and modern day Lagos. The Jewish business then sell-out to the Koreans who don’t mind running cash businesses in the ghetto.
High-achieving blacks follow conservative white leadership to escape the dysfunction of their co-ethnics. Yet, their friends and extended families join them, with regression to the mean setting in. If left unchecked, a tipping point (heh) is reached and things go Zimbabwe.
Thomas Sowell: When a black man declared his “rage,” Eric Hoffer shot back: “Mister, it is easy to be full of rage. It is not easy to go to work and build something.”
Hoffer was convinced that the black leadership was taking the wrong approach, if they wanted to advance the people in whose name they spoke. Only achievement would win the respect of the larger society and — more important — their own self-respect. And no one else can give you achievement.
