If they move to areas run by Republicans they have a chance at getting better schools and economic opportunity.
This is why so many are leaving the segregated Northern democratic cities and moving to the new republican South.
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Watching the CNN Ferguson coverage is painful
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This is why so many are leaving the segregated Northern democratic cities and moving to the new republican South.
A white male driving through the neighborhoods of Chicago's West and South sides will get pulled over quicker the a black, driving through white suburban neighborhoods.
A Chicago cop seeing a white male driving in a black neighborhood is going to assume he is up to no good. Is that racial profiling?
Yeah, that'll work.
What do you mean? It is working. People vote with their feet.
“This is the decade of black flight,” said Mr. Frey. “It’s a new age for African-Americans. It’s long overdue, but it seems to be happening.”
The five counties with the largest black populations in 2000 — Cook in Illinois, Los Angeles, Wayne in Michigan, Kings in New York and Philadelphia — all lost black population in the last decade. Among the 25 counties with the biggest increase in black population, three-quarters are in the South.
The Rev. Ronald Peters, who moved last year from Pittsburgh to Atlanta, said it was refreshing to be part of a hopeful black middle class that was not weighed down by the stigmas and stereotypes of the past, as he felt it was in the urban Northeast.
“Too often, people turn on TV and all they see are black men in chains,” said Mr. Peters, president of the Interdenominational Theological Center, a seminary in Atlanta. “Atlanta is a clear example of a different type of ethos. The black community is not people who have lost their way.”
Increasingly blacks are moving to places with small black populations. Just 2 percent of the black population growth in the last decade occurred in counties that have traditionally been black population centers, while 20 percent has occurred in counties where only a tiny fraction of the population had been black.
Segregation declined during the decade. Among the nation’s 100 largest metro areas, 92 showed segregation declines with most of the largest occurring in growing areas in the South and West, Mr. Frey said.
“The center of population has moved south in the most extreme way we’ve ever seen in history,” said Robert Groves, director of the Census Bureau.
Northern blacks were a big part of Southern gains. There are now more than one million black residents of the South who were born in the Northeast, a tenfold increase since 1970.
Blacks who moved to the South were disproportionately young — 40 percent were adults ages 21 to 40, compared with 29 percent of the nonmigrant black population. One in four newcomers had a four-year college degree, compared to one in six of the black adults who had already lived in the South.
Cicely Bland, 36, a publishing company owner who left her home in Jersey City in 2006 for Stockbridge, an Atlanta suburb, said life was better because it was more affordable. Her choice was as much about cultural affinity as it was job opportunities.
“The business and political opportunities are here,” she said. “You have a lot of African-Americans with a lot of influence, and they’re in my immediate networks.”
Well CNN is starting to show the other side of the story...
Support grows for Darren Wilson, officer who shot Ferguson teen Michael Brown
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/19/us/ferguson-darren-wilson-support/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Support grows for Darren Wilson, officer who shot Ferguson teen Michael Brown
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/19/us/ferguson-darren-wilson-support/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
States With the Best (and Worst) Schools
By Thomas C. Frohlich and Michael B. Sauter January 14, 2014 6:37 am EDT
For years, American students have consistently ranked poorly compared to most developed nations. And according to a recently released study, the U.S. education system remains mediocre, receiving a C− grade, for the third year in a row.
Click here to see the states with the best school systems
Click here to see the states with the worst school systems
Education news and research publication Education Week released its 18th annual survey of the status of education in all 50 states. The K-12 Achievement Index is one indicator in Education Week’s “Quality Counts” report that measures key education outcomes and provides ranks and grades for each state based on their commitment to improve educational policies and practices. This year, Massachusetts received the highest score, a B, while Mississippi got an F. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the states with the best and worst scores for K-12 achievement. more . . .
That is the legacy left behind from 100 years of racist Democratic rule. The racist Democratic kept Blacks poor and cut out from the economy. The racist Democratic ripped off Blacks out of the money they needed to develop decent schools, decent neighborhoods and decent city services.
This is what the Republicans are working to fix. Remember, Republicans only began winning local offices in the 1990's and 2000's and since then the wealth of the South has grown faster then any other part of the country.
Black would not migrate back to the South in the millions if they had the same schools they are fleeing in the North.
Sorry, no. If you're going to repeat Republican dogma, you're never going to determine the facts of the matter.
Determining those facts is going to take a lot of work. If you're interested in doing it, then you can begin by comparing wealthy suburban schools with poor inner-city schools after having controlled all the variables. If you don't want to do any of that, then whatever sound bites you repeat aren't going to help you or anybody else.
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
The interviewer spent 10 minutes with the lady with the pink hair... until she stated, "I've been on parole since '05"
The interviewer spent 10 minutes with the lady with the pink hair... until she stated, "I've been on parole since '05"