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2023-09-04 -Great Cultural Revolution

Book Review: 'Untenable' - The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-04 02:45|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 ...Cleveland was holding together - not well, but doing it - until Judge Frank Battisti started his deranged administration of the school desegregation suit. The white flight really started then, and the city still hasn't recovered.

And a postscript - Battisti was so enraged by the fact that people were moving out that before his death, he was planning on issuing an order that if you were a white parent in the desegregation area, you couldn't move without his explicit permission. The whole thing was throttled back considerably after his death, but the Cleveland school system was nuked into ashes, and the city is still dealing with the fallout nearly fifty years later.

Final question: what scares you more - the fact that he was going to do it, or the fact that he thought he could get away with it?

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2023-09-04 08:05|| 2023-09-04 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, they bury that fact of black middle and upper class flight in their stories. Those parents wanted good and safe schools for their kids too.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-09-04 08:13|| 2023-09-04 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Second Order Effects of gov't social interventions. I suppose moving to a rural community near Bern, SZ is out of the question at my age.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-04 09:13|| 2023-09-04 09:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Silicon Valley 'utopian city': Ranchers living in middle of new town planned by tech billionaires blast 'arrogant' tycoons for $800M land grab

Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-04 09:20|| 2023-09-04 09:20|| Front Page Top

#5 The cities still operated as centers of work and commerce until COVID and the following shoplifting epidemic. In the end they will just exist as dystopian backdrops inhabited by collections of homeless folks pooping outside the last smoke shops owned by really determined Asian people.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-09-04 10:57|| 2023-09-04 10:57|| Front Page Top

#6 ^^^ Zombie Apocalypse is real.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-09-04 11:49|| 2023-09-04 11:49|| Front Page Top

#7 We lived in N.E. Washington, D.C. in 1950, close to the Capitol, Union Station and an Irish-centric social neighborhood, with both sets of grandparents. I recall the beginnings of the White Flight first-hand and the conflicts that led us to suburban Wheaton, Maryland. It was the beginning of the donut-ring suburbs and the massive reordering of the demographics of the nations capitol city.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-09-04 11:54|| 2023-09-04 11:54|| Front Page Top

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