Hmmmm. That's a good one. What do they have in common? Que the Jeopardy theme tune.
Ah ha! I've got it! It is something all the other cities on that list have in common: DNA.
Hmmmm, what do Birmingham, Memphis and New Orleans all have in common?
Three out of four are in California. Hilariously, Oakland’s median income is above national average, probably because of so-called gentrification by people who can’t afford to buy in SF.
I don't know about the other two but NOLA had very dramatic white flight after school desegregation was eventually enacted after a long bitter struggle. The black population is probably around what it was in the early sixties. What is different is what the blacks are now like. In 1960 a NOLA of 600K population and 60/40% racial split had less than 80 homicides. Today every year a much smaller city, about 350K population and majority black, has over 150 murders every year. The context of the crimes are often about nothing more than street corner argument. The number that are marked by real depravity are numerous. A couple weeks ago a young black couple were both shot to death and then incinerated so thoroughly in a vacant lot that the Coroner had a difficult time making an ID. One of the heard of elephants in the room in NOLA is why the majority group in the city has become as depraved and vicious as it has. If you want to get middle class white ‘right thinkers’ upset pose this question. No one wants to even acknowledge it.
Hmmmm. That's a good one. What do they have in common? Que the Jeopardy theme tune.
Ah ha! I've got it! It is something all the other cities on that list have in common: DNA.
Not white privilege, I can tell you that.
