ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) - As more and more black renters began moving into this mostly white San Francisco Bay Area suburb a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing and muggings of schoolchildren.
Across the country, similar tensions have simmered when federally subsidized renters escaped run-down housing projects and violent neighborhoods by moving to nicer communities in suburban Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles.
Hey hippies! What happened to peace, love and diversity?
I guess gayness is less offensive to neighbors than pit bulls and hookers.
"One of the goals of the programs is to de-concentrate poverty," Villarreal said. "There are just some people who don't want to spend public money that way."
De-concentrate poverty? What does that even mean? I totally understand, but disagree with, income redistribution. But deconcentration? That sounds like trying to cure cancer by just spreading it around a little, doesn't really solve the problem, it just allows everyone to suffer from it. In this case it allows more people to not like living near poor people and gives more people an excuse to flee further away.
It's not really about black people. It's about ghetto people. Low income people have no class and they commit crimes.
ReplyDeleteWhen ghetto people are just a concept in some far away town, then it's easy to not be racist.
But when they keep you up all night with loud music or mug you at the ATM, it's a different story.
When I lived in Buffalo I had to deal with these ghetto people on the subway and buses that would just talk shit to me all the time. "What you scared white boy? We gonna be burning crosses in yo lawn!"
Of course there are many black people who are just normal people. But throughout my life dozens of incidents of crime have occurred and it was almost always a black perpetrator, so I've been conditioned by reality to like black people less than other races.
In Vegas where I currently live, there are very few black people. Crimes are perpetrated by illegal immigrant Mexicans. The criminals reported on the news always have the exact same description: 20's something white Hispanic.
Is that racist? No it's not because it's true. Nearly EVERY crime has some Mexican guy in the mugshot or surveillance video.
Despite this, I don't have any racist feelings towards Hispanics. The reason is that I've lived in nice neighborhoods since I moved here. Those criminal Mexicans are just some thing on the news that isn't reality for me.
Word.
ReplyDeleteThat article didn't need to specify black people, I was surprised it was that blatant. True, but blatant.
The funny part for me was that it was in the Bay Area. Sounds like diversity is only welcomed when people act and behave the same way. How diverse!