Posted on 11/26/2017 11:35:35 AM PST by Simon Green
everal years ago, a woman who lives around the corner in Inglewood told me a story common to black people who were among the first to move into once-white cities. She and her husband bought their house in 1967. Every day that summer, she said, her next-door neighbor came out on his porch, glaring. Whenever he saw her, this white man shouted not a greeting, but a question: Why are you here? In a few months, he was gone, along with pretty much every other white family on the block.
I grew up in and around Inglewood and have lived here for the last 13 years. Walking home with my dogs three weeks ago, I was approached by a young white woman who, like me, is an animal lover. Turns out she and her husband had moved into the neighborhood recently. “We like it so far,” she said brightly. Like it? I felt a rush of resentment at a remark that to her, I’m sure, was perfectly innocent. All I could think was: White folks abandoned Inglewood, and now they’re coming back with no memory or acknowledgment of all that, expecting neighborliness?
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The fact that whites are coming back to this once very contested space is not, I fear, evidence of the meaningful integration that has long eluded us. It’s a warning that my black community is, once again, irretrievably at risk.
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It floors me that she thinks her husband was somehow “different” than this white lady, even though she knows nothing about her. That’s the whole point of not being a racist, everyone is an individual and “different” than everyone else, in their own way!
Blacks are all about diversity but they can’t stand it when one white family moves into a black neighborhood that used to be a white neighborhood. Lunacy.
When the overweight, single, black mothers with children, come to your neighborhood Walmart, pushing carts, what will you say??
They move there so YOU, white or black, can work hard and support them.
And the single mom black never even sent you a thank you card.
Democrats are strategically injecting these burdens into towns across America to rig the vote.
To be fair...I've seen some white neighborhoods that fit this description.
If blacks started moving in to a white neighborhood, and whites complained that “their” white community was at risk, they’d be the most vile of racists.
What really burns me is when whites work hard to live in a nice neighborhood with low crime and good schools, and then the government, thinking there’s not enough “diversity,” gives money to blacks or Hispanics to move into the same neighborhood that whites had to work their tails off to afford. Just by virtue of their skin color, blacks and Hispanics get free or cheaper houses. And whites are certainly not allowed to complain about it.
And then, when the crime increases and the schools aren’t good anymore, the whites have to go to the trouble and expense of picking up and moving somewhere else—all the while being called “evil racists engaging in white flight.”
Rinse, repeat...
That must be it. In an upper middle neighborhood not far away, a young black family moved in a while back. The expensive vinyl picket backyard fence is now half torn down. The shrubbery has been left grow wild. And shutters and doors have needed repainting for several years. So far, noone has left.
Well, my first thought is F her.
There is no way claiming a part of town as [my race only] isn’t blatantly racist.
With economics not favoring one race, only favoring the hard working and the lucky, she can’t be spouting 1950s class BS about how white working class people will crowd out black working class people.
Listen, I agree with you 100%. I am not even criticizing the white people who did panic and flee Inglewood 50 years ago! My point is that those people fit the criteria of the word “bigot”. So be it. So would I, and have I, in similar circumstances. Hear me out for a minute...according to the same criteria, this woman who wrote this article ALSO is a bigot. What is infuriating is that SHE will not be taken to task for it. So...game over!
Listen, I agree with you 100%. I am not even criticizing the white people who did panic and flee Inglewood 50 years ago! My point is that those people fit the criteria of the word “bigot”. So be it. So would I, and have I, in similar circumstances. Hear me out for a minute...according to the same criteria, this woman who wrote this article ALSO is a bigot. What is infuriating is that SHE will not be taken to task for it. So...game over!
Very true.
Also note: white people you sleep with are cool. Exceptions.
Honestly, this white woman wasn’t on some gentrifying master quest. She and her family were undoubtedly looking for a decent middle class home in LA they could afford.
Compton is more Hispanic than black now, and has been.
"...houses painted, lawns cared for, no mattresses in abadoned lots, no cars on blocks..."
IIRC, Governor George Wallace was vilified for saying “”segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” in his inaugural speech.
Of course, if a black person says it, it is OK?
Grow up lady!
Character counts, not color!
Actually, their character is less an issue whether they are a bigot or not. The issue is economic. You estimate is your neighborhood in decline or not. Who cares if you are called a bigot while losing money.
Success pursuing blacks are not the problem. Renters, welfare, it is just a guess to avoid great decline of wealth.
Interesting name. Erin Aubrey Kaplan.....
Yeah MSM. Keep telling Whites how much we’re not wanted, how much “you people” hate us, how terrible we are, etc.....
That’s a winning strategy right there.
Kinda like plugging in the USB devices...
I see what you mean. I recall a conversation I had about 15 years ago with a lefty who lived on one of the swankest streets in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. He said he was a believer in putting low income housing projects in middle class neighborhoods if it could be proved that, say, fifty years before, blacks had been steered away from those neighborhoods. (Conveniently, that would never had to happen in super-rich neighborhoods such as Brentwood, where economic barriers made outright discrimination unnecessary.) I said (mildly) to Mr Brentwood, “How about putting up a Low Income Housing Project in the middle of Brentwood?†He quickly replied, “Well, I think most people would be concerned about property values.†This from a man who also owned THREE other houses, all worth as much or more than the house in Brentwood! So, working and middle class people, whose greatest asset is their ONE house, should be punished for the purported bigotry of others who looked like them decades before...but rich people get off scot free?! Gee, I wonder why, fifteen years later...TRUMP won the election?!!
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