(12-25-2020, 02:47 AM)americus 2.0 Wrote: I wonder what Michelle Obama has to say about that since she blames "white flight" in Chicago when she was growing up on racism.

When I was growing up, a long time ago, we lived in a pure white neighborhood.  I can safely say that almost no one in our neighborhood would have welcomed a black family moving in.  And if more than one black family had moved in, some people would have moved out.  It would have been from fear of crime, fear of declining property values, and fear that all their white neighbors would move out and leave them as the only white family in the neighborhood.  I think a lot of "white flight" was self-fulfilling in that way.  Probably a lot of them would have just wanted to beat the rush, so to speak.  No realtor who wanted to stay in business would have sold a house in my neighborhood to a black family.  

Racism was pretty normal among white people where I grew up.  One time, when I was in high school, a lot of guys were standing around after gym class, and one of my friends asked me if I would marry a black girl.  I said, yes, I would marry her if I loved her.  And the next thing you know, I was surrounded by a bunch of guys screaming at me about it.  One of them even punched me.  

Racism was so normal among white people back then.  We just accepted it.  

So there's no doubt in my mind that a lot of white flight was because of racism.  I'm not saying it was in Michelle Obama's case, because I don't know much about her situation.

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