On 7/25/10 22:57 , Gregg wrote:
On Jul 25, 3:24 pm, DEFCON wrote:
On Jul 25, 1:47 pm, wrote:

Watchin ah leetl bit uv CNN tee vee noos.The guy on CNN said Nigeria is
kidnapping oil company executives and killing them, and also blowing up
some oil lines.Video clip showed some people by a ditch and being shot
and killed.

cuhulin

Typical. Blacks are always chimping out. As in Haiti, Zimbabwe, South
Africa, Detroit and elsewhere, they kill and/or drive out the people
who make things work and then sit around and blame Whitey when their
country/city turns to $hit.

I can say from experience (at least for me) that is true. The
subdivsion I was raised in was beautiful / immaculate back in the mid
60's too mid 70's. Great K through sixth grade schools within a ten
minute walk from our front door. There were no black families in our
subdivision - zero- nada.

One black family moved in on one side of the subdivision and then two
on the other side within a years time. I guess more had moved in I
didn't know of because we had one black boy in my grade, then the next
year we had four in our fifth grade.

Long story short, that subdivsion in now crack alley and drug infested
and the once great school I attended is covered with graffiti
everywhere and wood boards where I suppose windows have been broken. I
went to visit my former school not even two years ago to take some
pics of the gym and hallways etc. and signed in at the desk. I
explained to them the years I went to that school and that I wanted to
look around and they gave me a visitors badge, I had a pretty good
time. But ALL the hallways were covered with Obama drawings, like a
coloring book type of thing where the kids would color inside the
lines, I wondered (but didn't ask) how they got coloring books like
that.

The tables had been flipped so too speak, I saw two white girls and
one white boy in that entire school. They had one white teacher that
spoke to me (though many black teachers saw me walking around) in the
hallway and I told her where we had lived and when I went to school
there and she kind of shook her head and said "I can't even imagine
it." Kind of says it all. Our house was sold to a white family who
lived there for three years and since then no one has actually bought
it and a group owns it and rents it out I guess. I found that out on
the auditors search page. Sad.




What you describe is something that happens and has happened in
subdivisions/developments/communities across the culture.

"White Flight" is nothing new. In fact, it was actively
cultivated by real estate brokers in communities throughout the 50's
and 60's. The reason had less to do with race, and more to do with
profit. Sell whites on the fear, offer them fresh properties in the
suburbs, handle the sales and purchases on each end, turn around and
handle the purchase of the city properties by the new class moving
in. Fortunes were made.

That said, the new class need not be black to lower the standard
of living in a community. Two of the communities I grew up in are
now run down, lower end communities. And race is not involved. Both
were new construction, higher end, communities when we moved in.
Today, in the later one (where we moved in in the late 60's,) home
prices have fallen, the state of repair is poor, and 30% of homes
have been declared unfit for habitation.

Time is a bitch. And it levels all playing fields.

The previous community, into which we moved in '55, are now lower
end, now starter homes, though still nice homes as a whole, and,
again, racial components are not involved.

The phenomenon is driven by a lot of things. One is, that the
monied are often driven by new construction, fresher locales, and
distance from the madding crowd. While lower end buyers must buy
within their budget, or rent. That means existing, older homes, from
which the monied have moved for newer environs.

Race need not apply.

Now, there were blacks moving into the second community where I
grew up. And there was considerable noise about them. But the
unrecognized reality was that their homes were better maintained and
landscaped, and they often had nicer, if not more interesting, cars
in the garage. All of which may have been motivated by an intent to
avoid falling into stereotype. Without the over-and-above, they
would have fit right in to the existing environment without a hitch.

But these were not people who were put into these homes by 'block
busting commitees.' They bought, and mortgaged, their homes
themselves, based on their own qualifications. Blockbuster homes
were often bought by the committee, and then spun to the occupants
with assistance to those who could not otherwise afford to live in
the neighborhood. That's what led to the stereotype.

Even in those cases, the problems were not with blacks moving
into the homes, but with the committees putting them into homes that
they could not rightly afford, and couldn't maintain.

Now, your communty's situation may be different than mine. Likely
it is. But it's hardly a hard case of racially caused decay.
Community decay dates to the Greeks and Romans. It's part of the
process of evolution of a community. The case is more likely the
politically motivated ignorance of realties that put people into
homes the couldn't afford to maintain than it is the race of the
people themselves.