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vincentML -> RE: Milwaukee Burning (8/16/2016 9:01:28 AM)
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Three forths, or more, of my neighborhood is black, so I don't see any seperation.
omg, where to begin. Let's start with the riot in Ferguson.
Protests that spark rioting have rarely started in suburbia and have almost always begun in major central cities, such as in Detroit (1967), Washington (1968) and Los Angeles (1992).
But in 2014, America’s suburban landscape has clearly changed.
“[It] isn’t a St. Louis ghetto,” segregation expert John Logan said of Ferguson, a suburb with about 21,000 people, more than two-thirds of them African-American. “It’s out in the suburbs, and it’s not the worst neighborhood, so why are people so steamed up?” Logan asked. “There is a high degree of segregation and steering in the housing market and divisions across racial lines.”
Logan, a Brown University sociologist, shows just how deep the divisions are in a new report, “Separate and Unequal in Suburbia,” out Wednesday.
He found that, despite a decline in racial segregation and improvements in incomes marked by the rise of the black middle class, blacks and Hispanics continue to live in the least desirable neighborhoods — even when they can afford better — and their children attend the lowest-performing schools.
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“Of course, the civil rights movement is long gone, but segregation persists,” and America has continued to isolate poor black people in economically depressed neighborhoods under increasingly oppressive police tactics that breed distrust and hostility, he said.
“Thirty years ago, it would’ve been in the city of St. Louis, but blacks moved out of St. Louis to this place [Ferguson], and whites fled,” Anderson said. “The ghetto has moved to the suburbs. It’s happening to many places in the country.”
St. Louis’ suburban ring is the fourth-most-segregated in the nation, tied with the Nassau-Suffolk area, east of New York City. (Only Newark, New Jersey; Miami; and Cleveland are ranked higher.) And segregation has not declined by much in 30 years, according to Logan’s report for the US2010 Project, which examines changes in American society.
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In a report published today, 8/16/2016 in Education Week
Nationwide, low-income black children's isolation has increased. It's a problem not only of poverty but of race. Roughly 40 percent of black students attend schools that are more than 90 percent minority, up from 34 percent 20 years ago. Then, black students typically attended schools where 40 percent were low-income; it's now 60 percent.
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So yeah, you're right. Blacks have moved to the ring suburbs, but they still remain highly segregated. More so than ever.
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