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There is no way that a mere politician can make White Folk want to live alongside Black Folk, as a general rule; not in the 1940s and 1950s, and not now....Inner city degeneration is as a result of politicians not bothering with dealing with social issues properly...
Nope. Most of the White Flight took place during the Great Immigration of the period 1920-1970, with the lion's share being in the 1940s and 1950s and 1960s....The white flight is as a result of this inner city degeneration...
Most of those neighborhoods were still in decent shape when the White Folk bailed out.
Left to rot under Black control for most of the last 50 or 60 or 70 years, there's not much left now worth saving.
Yer a funny little feller....And nothing is being done now and nothing will be done in the future, because the people with the money control the politicians and they spend so much money telling people like you what to think, so you don't realize what needs to be done in order to deal with the situation. ..
Nothing was done then, nothing is being done now, and nothing is going to be done in future, because White Folk just don't want to live next to Black Folk.
Also, White Folk don't appreciate throwing good money after bad, and they've thrown a lot of money into those inner-city Black Holes with very little worthwhile coming from it.
Nobody needs to tell White Folk not to want to live next to Black Folk... they usually arrive at that conclusion all by themselves... with little or no prodding.
The Kiddie Table is down the hall, second door on your Left....They just have you harping on about how you can't take guns away and it's all the fault of black people, and you can't solve this, so don't bother, just make sure rich people are getting lots of money.
Politicians can help make a climate of tolerance, or intolerance. They can impact education, they can impact social inequality, they can do so much which changes people's perceptions.
I was in South Africa a couple of years ago, and there was a guy in this town near Namibia. I spoke to him and he said he moved there from somewhere else to get away from his son. His son was a racist and his father didn't like this.
You'd think it were surprising, the guy who lived under apartheid wasn't a racist. But the kid who grew up under the free country was. Why? Well, black people are the source of all fear for white kids. They cause almost all of the crime, they may target white people (who are generally richer). It's not difficult to see why a white kid now would fear black people. Not because of all black people, not even because of most black people, but a minority (that is quite large) who would commit crime and make SA a very unsafe country.
Politicians made this situation. They didn't deal with crime, education is poor, and I mean really poor, govt officials on the take will steal money instead of giving students the text books they need. Opportunities have not been created. The govt, rather than deal with the issues that need to be dealt with, have literally lined their own pockets.
What's the difference between the US and SA? Not much really. Corruption is there in both, in the US it's called "campaign financing" or similar terms, money is legitimately going into the pockets of politicians, either through direct donations or through PACs. Everything is monitored, it's hard to see what's coming and going through PACs though, either way, politicians are on the take.
The other similarities are that nothing much is being done about anything that involves the normal folk.
White flight happened for many reasons. The US is hardly the most integrated country on the planet.
You say white people don't want to live next to black people. Why? There's no logical reason for people of equal status and stature in society to not want to live around each other.
25% of black people are in poverty.
Yet black people and white people do live side by side in many places without a problem.
The issues of why people don't want to live next to each other could be similar to what happened in the Balkans in the 1990s. People who'd lived next door to each other for a long time, suddenly found themselves on different teams, teams the politicians decided were important (Milosevic was a Serb Nationalist) and then some people took advantage and then all hell broke loose.
Again, it's an issue that can be dealt with, but isn't being dealt with.