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| Urban Institute Researchers: Lack of white folks responsible for Chicago Income Disparity, Homicide Rate |
| 2017-07-23 |
| [PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Chicago’s South Shore is three blocks from Lake Michigan and runs adjacent to Jackson Park, a public space designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, one of the architects of Central Park. A commuter rail system delivers residents to downtown in 10 minutes, and the neighborhood is a mix of single-family homes with well-manicured lawns and dense urban housing. South Shore is also 96 percent African-American and lacks access to high-quality public schooling. It’s not uncommon for residents to pay $20,000 or more for private education. Meanwhile, the commercial corridor vacancy rate hovers above 30 percent, and the neighborhood is not immune from Chicago’s historically high murder rate, which saw nearly 800 people killed in 2016. Joanna Trotter, senior program officer for the Chicago Community Trust, described these contrasts on Friday while discussing the inequality she says pervades American metropolitan areas, brought on by economic segregation that Urban Institute researchers insist is getting worse. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #16 When you believe the Anarchist Proudhon's cry that Property is theft! (French: La propriété, c'est le vol!) you can believe any manner of foolishnesses. |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-07-23 22:52 |
| #15 ..that's how you separate the real (re:classical) liberals from the (cultural appropriators of the name) socialists. One believed in equal opportunity, the latter believes in equal outcome. Not to mention the issue of the sanctity of property. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-07-23 19:38 |
| #14 It isn't counter-intuitive to recognize that when you subsidize something, you get more of it. Equal opportunity has become the expectation of equal outcome with no correlation to effort or achievement. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2017-07-23 17:14 |
| #13 Don't be silly, #5 P2k. Of course they didn't. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2017-07-23 15:11 |
| #12 |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-07-23 14:56 |
| #11 Meanwhile, the commercial corridor vacancy rate hovers above 30 percent... What DarthVader said - it's all about the work ethic. Idiot grant hoggers should stop inventing problems like 'economic segregation' and call it what it is - a serious absence of work ethic across sizable swaths of US citizens, encouraged and cheered on by Democrats. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-07-23 14:28 |
| #10 I thought every white free society was utopia?!!?!?!? How can this be? |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2017-07-23 14:22 |
| #9 Those that want to work will be shipped off with their families to business sponsored locations. Those that don't will be put in secured areas and have their welfare cut off and let nature take its course. Those that work thrive. Those that don't die. Simple enough solution and it applies to everyone regardless of race, sex, religion or orientation. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-07-23 12:47 |
| #8 #7 So we need to force an appropriate number of |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-07-23 11:11 |
| #7 So we need to force an appropriate number of white folks to move into Chicago. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2017-07-23 10:58 |
| #6 Chicago has been under Democrat leadership for a very long time. The crime environment has been created and fostered by Donks. Don't blame the rest of us. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-07-23 10:48 |
| #5 ..did they plot the upper and middle class blacks living in Chicago neighborhoods? Did they also identify poor white neighborhoods and correlate the homicide rate as well? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-07-23 10:06 |
| #4 Urban Institute Researchers: Same headline with a different spin. What a difference that makes, huh? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-07-23 09:54 |
| #3 Over at Zblog, the guy has a 'theory' called "magic dirt". Where ever white people live is 'magic dirt', and life is better there. Whites are the only ones who can tell where and when 'magic dirt' exists. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-07-23 08:40 |
| #2 The article offers little in the way of solutions or remedies. Stiffer penalties for rural living must be enacted to offset the obvious disparity and scourge of apartheid. Placing federally funded education and healthcare facilities in urban areas will force a return migration. Rural areas can be used for correctional facilities, which will bring inner-city visitors to less populated rural areas to see their incarcerated loved ones. This will encourage eventual re-location and spread criminal activity more evenly. Rural areas can declared Federal Eco-friendly, Wildlife Zones and can be placed off-limits for human habitation. Profits from Natural resources (oil & gas) exploration in these controlled zones can be redirected to vital government income redistribution programs. Problem urban areas can be saturated with H-1B holders. This will assist re-integration efforts, encourage entrepreneurship, work ethic, and thrift (See San Francisco's Chinatown). There, now why has no one else thought of that ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-07-23 04:55 |
| #1 (1) All white people are racist. (2) White-frei neighborhoods are dysfunctional. Conclusion Racism is essential to social functioning. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-07-23 04:48 |