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| Book Review: 'Untenable' - The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities |
| 2023-09-04 |
| [American Greatness] Jack Cashill’s latest book, Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America’s Cities, sets an important story straight: The author’s expertise on the subject of "white flight" did not come from a college course, a New York Times article, a documentary, or anything of that sort. As the son of an Irish police officer growing up in a working-class ethnic neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, in the 1950s and 60s—he lived it. "Untenable" is Cashill’s 15th book, and his first autobiography. His personal story is interwoven with the stories of dozens of other Newark residents of the same era who cherished their neighborhoods and were heartbroken when they were forced to leave. Leaving the city meant leaving their close-knit, ethnic communities and no longer having everything they needed within walking distance. Cashill remembers a time in Newark when people walked everywhere with no fear of being robbed or molested. The once thriving Catholic Roseville neighborhood, where Cashill grew up, was a multiethnic paradise in the early ’50s, as the author remembers it. Italian, Irish, Jewish, Polish, and yes, a minority of African American families lived side by side, and for the most part, everyone got along. Related: Jack Cashill: 2021-10-01 Durham issues fresh round of subpoenas in his continuing probe of FBI investigation into Trump, Russia Jack Cashill: 2021-09-26 Kash Patel: Length of Sussmann Indictment Indicates More Indictments on the Way Jack Cashill: 2021-09-25 Durham Indictment Shows Clinton Likely Worked With Top Google Exec To Fabricate Russia Hoax, Says Google Whistleblower |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #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 |
| #6 ^^^ Zombie Apocalypse is real. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-09-04 11:49 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |