Moving your family is a hard thing to do. It is one of the most stressful things people go through. It is a big decision to move your family. It’s not something people do easily. It had to be pretty bad for people to pack up and leave Detroit. It’s a foolish argument to say that Americans who are white found it easy to leave their homes in Detroit. It was so bad that they felt that there was no other alternative.
When I was just a kid being driven toward Detroit after landing on a plane from Alabama, mother wanted to be near her mother after the divorce, I got all excited. We were driving over the huge River Rouge bridge and I could not believe my eyes. The river was orange. Had never seen an orange river before. Thought it was cool. Little did I know that it was just a sign of what the Auto companies had done to the area.
That is what pisses me off every time I see one of these blame “white flight” articles.
I have had MANY great work opportunities which would require me to walkk away from a long-term rental contract, loss of income for 15 to 20the days, pull my kids from two or three schools, find another home, with good schools, get them in, get settled and then start endearing my skills to a whole new group of people to prove I was worth the chance, etc...
These people think all white people have spare money sitting around waiting for them in the need of flying free from whatever “perceived” blight because of our engrained racist, bigot filled notions.
IDIOTS!