Gentrification means a neighborhood is becoming more white.
Steve Sailer writes: … blacks acquired a number of close-in neighborhoods — Harlem, most of Washington DC, the south lakefront of Chicago, a huge swathe of Los Angeles between the beach and downtown, etc. — and then held onto them longer than would have happened if they had been less violent. Black crime allowed blacks to afford otherwise desirable urban neighborhoods for longer than less violent groups, who got economically or ethnically cleansed from their neighborhoods with little muss or fuss.
Slowly, especially in New York City, crime has been brought under better control, which means no part of Manhattan will stay a slum.
The Obama Administration, going back to its Chicago roots, has close financial ties to urban real estate interests, such as the Pritzkers. The very first conversation between the young Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright in Dreams from My Fathers: A Story of Race and Inheritance is a discussion of the spiritual adviser’s secretary’s plan to move to the suburbs and why Wright opposes that. (Wright eventually retired to a 10,000 sq. ft. house in a golf course development in a highly white suburb).
So, the Obama Administration has paid particular attention to greasing the skids under urban blacks so they won’t face any resistance to their abandoning all the potentially valuable real estate they occupy and moving to less fashionable locations. For example, the Obama Administration has been at war with Dubuque, Iowa over its resistance to Chicago plans to relocate Chicago’s poor, violent blacks to Dubuque. Obviously, the liberal Democrats running Chicago are liberal Democrats so they can’t be racist in their desire to pawn their troublesome Chicago blacks off on the small city losers of Dubuque, who are no doubt vicious racists, just look at them.
COMMENTS:
* Obama is making America great again. LA, Chicago, DC, and all of Manhattan will become amazing cities. These cities will become many more times more amazing then they are now and project the image of a hyper dynamic and hip American urban elite to the rest of the world.
Only Obama and Democrats can make this happen. Talking about it openly will only slow down the process. Are you against this amazing revitalization of American cities and America’s image abroad? If you aren’t then you should keep quiet.
* I was teaching a developmental psychology class. The university had chosen a text by Belsky. It described a 1993 experiment (Moving to Opportunity) in which Blacks were randomly placed into two groups and either left in urban centrers or moved to suburbs. Those who were moved to suburbs got into more trouble than those who stayed.
Belsky blamed the White folks in the suburbs for the Blacks behaviour (see link above). I asked my students two questions: 1) should the people in the suburbs be warned about the risks of the experiment that was being done to them, and 2) if they thought White people should be blamed for the behaviour of Black people.
The Federal government is importing Micronesians into Hawaii. This is the result of a law passed after the Bikini atoll H bomb experiments in the 1950s. This second experiment, the moving of Micronesians to Hawaii, will double heath care costs for the state this year according to HMSA and has resulted in students entering schools in Hawaii unable to read English or understand calendars.
The APA requires that individuals involved in social science experiments be informed of the risks involve beforehand and give informed consent.
My question to you is – Did the Federal government warn the people involved about the risks of participating in the three experiment above? Did those people give informed consent?
Who should be held responsible?
* Why isn’t the Obama Administration required to conduct a massive Environmental Impact Statement analysis of its plan to print up 5 million Get Out of Jail Free cards for illegal aliens?
* I am somewhat conflicted about this. On the one hand, there are certainly people on the left who understand that creating highly desirable urban neighborhoods often means finding a reason to get rid of all the NAMs dragging down values in areas that naturally should be great real estate…and some of them are OK with developers making a fortune off of it, reckoning the tax revenue generated by increased property values or returning previously tax-exempt property to the rolls can be used to help the noble NAMs, but preferably somewhere many miles away.
On the other hand, I feel like there are even more who subscribe to the “white people are magic” theory by which vibrant diversity needs to be placed in close proximity to them to absorb their personal habits, educational achievement, economic success and so on through some kind of osmosis even though all right-thinking people also understand they are stodgy racist oppressors who are responsible for all the shortcomings in NAM lives across the country.
Maybe an alternate theory is that the progressives know full well that an influx of lower income NAMs into conservative suburbs and exurbs will destroy those communities and alter the political calculus for the House as middle class whites disperse and their voting power is diluted. It’s political and cultural warfare carried out in the name of social justice.
* New York City’s birthrate is at its lowest since 1936.
Among ethnic groups, blacks have the lowest birthrate citywide, 12.7 per 1000, and abort 55 percent of pregnancies.
Ultra-orthodox Jews in Borough Park have the highest, 27.9 per 1000. (Zero abortions?)
Most mothers are poor and/or immigrant but teen pregnancies have plummeted.
* As Thomas Sowell has demonstrated, there is no “correct” amount of time American ethnic groups are “supposed” to stay in one location or another. And what “cleansing”? Whites moved out for a number of reasons- not simply black crime. Other key factors include the destruction of numerous lower class white neighborhoods by “urban renewal”- though that destruction was a lot less than that wreaked on black areas, the wide expansion of numerous new highways that facilitated white movement to suburbs, and the simple pressure of black dollars that outbid white dollars for property. As Sowell has shown, whites were in numerous places outbid by blacks who wanted and needed more living space. The blacks paid higher prices for older, less attractive housing stock in many cases- older stock that some whites were eager to unload on them for a profit.
And blacks themselves have been pushed out of numerous neighborhoods in Los Angeles in the late 1980s and 1990s without much “muss or fuss.” They have also been SPECIFICALLY victims of direct “ethnic cleansing” by Hispanic gangs.
* Agreed- the poor, particularly the black poor will always get shafted more. But many conservatives have been anything BUT willing to put all the cards on the table and engage in open debate where housing is concerned, maintaining a propaganda barrage about how housing discrimination is a minor problem that does not need much government scrutiny, when in fact, it still remains a major problem for African Americans. Conservatives have also used several deceptive covering methods to sidetrack open debate- such as making statistics “disappear.”
As one scholar shows for example -quote- “At a time when the number of housing discrimination complaints filed with HUD doubled, the Reagan Justice Department neglected nearly every serious complaint… The administration also used the Paperwork Reduction Act as an excuse to stop HUD from gathering data on the racial identities of participants in its housing programs.21 By refusing to gather data on true discrimination, the Reagan administration strengthened resistance to fair-housing laws to the point of encouraging outright refusal to obey them.” Reagan appointees also sharply slashed federal funding for subsidized housing – reducing it some 80% between 1981 and 1985 (–Lipsitz 2007, The Possessive Investment..)
* I live four blocks from a ten lane freeway and, contra Jane Jacobs, it’s not so bad. The side of the residential street that backs up against the freeway is slummier than the other side of the street, but that’s about the full extent of the blight caused by the freeway: half a block.
