I grew up in a medium sized white neighborhood which was like............
Life was great...........No crime.............And then one day a couple of black families moved in an built a couple of nice houses.............No one cared............they seemed like good people and they were good people...........
Then their relatives and friends came into the neighborhood. Again, no big deal.........It's their home No Problem.........Then Crime started picking up.............More blacks moved into more homes.....Again No big deal but the neighborhood was concerned with the rising thefts in the neighborhood............
Crime increased.........More homes broken into to..........So much so that the neighborhood met with the police at the local school and started a community watch..........it abated for a time.........but then participation went down as people got tired of patrolling the neighborhood as some stopped pitching in to stop the crime............So it eventually folded.............
Some people started selling houses because of the increased crime................More blacks moved in........crime increased and more left tired of worrying about getting broke into...............and so on..............
It got so bad that a neighbors house was burnt down...........some young black kids did it........one of them dropped their wallet while running away and turned in his buddies..............We were told they said it was for fun..........A neighbors house with everything burnt completely down.
When my father died.........I considered buying the home to keep it............but the crime was so great that I decided not to.................even though I really wanted to buy it.
This neighborhood went to shit..................and it was after the blacks moved into it. Not necessarily the blacks who were trying to escape their old crime ridden neighborhoods but those that came with it.................
A nice neighborhood turned, and turned to a crime ridden neighborhood...............
That was a choice of THUGS..............and now you Turkeys can call me a Racist or something like you always do.......................
Look at the crime rates in black neighborhoods and compare it to white ones...............you'll see the difference unless you refuse to see the truth..............
The crime is a CHOICE...........NOT PRESCRIBED BY ANYONE............and they have NO ONE TO BLAME BUT THEMSELVES.......................They CHOOSE VIOLENCE AND RIOTS and have been proven to be lying on many of the recent cases..................
Perhaps they could stop BLAMING OTHERS FOR THEIR OWN LIFE and DECIDE TO LIVE PEACEFUL IN SOCIETY.
That doesn't mean there aren't bad White neighborhoods............Because there are many of those as well....................but I blame those White's for being thugs and DON'T BURN DOWN THE CITY FOR THEIR ACTS.
Even as a liberal I can't argue. I can only hope what happened in Detroit doesnt happen here in my neighborhood. White flight. What you describe happened when I lived in Detroit in the 70s. Now blacks are moving into our suburbs and I hope whites dont leave. Where we gonna go? So my hope is the next generation of blacks assimilate into our neighborhoods, get good educations and eventually go to work like the rest of us.
Yes crime has gone up a little but mostly in the low income apartments where they live.
The problem is when whites leave and blacks take over. There goes the neighborhood.
I wish you the best of luck on that......I still have 2 sisters living in primarily black neighborhoods now as many have left to escape the crime...............One sister had a chow........In a fenced in back yard to deter the crime that is there now................Fenced in the front as well.............They killed the dog with anti freeze..................
Don't know how it will end...............the other sister is in the area that is a better and has a Community Watch.......................
Sounds like a repeat of my original story............They want to move out to escape the crime but can't afford to move..........
and so the story continues..............
Hopefully it will not happen to you.