Speaking of white flight...
“No opportunities are being created for low- and middle-income people in the city,” he said. “I drive to Georgetown ever day, and very rarely do I see African Americans on construction jobs.”
Some say the precipitous decline in the number of African Americans is alarming.
“We’re going to stop this trend — gentrification,” said D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward . “We can’t displace old-time Washingtonians.”
“The key to keeping this city black is jobs, jobs, jobs for black people so they can have a better quality of life in neighborhoods in the city,” he added. “I believe in integration, but I don’t believe in the apartheid we have in Ward 8. You don’t see corner stores in Ward 3. You don’t see the liquor stores.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/black_dc_residents_plummet_barely_a_majority/2011/03/24/ABtIgJQB_story.html?wprss=rss_homepageOf course that is Marion Barry speaking.. but then again, he was elected by local voters.. then again, perhaps that's why he's so adamant about keeping blacks in his section of town.. of course no one could say for sure.
This type of speech is apparently totally acceptable. Don't recall any fuss in the media about it. It did cause me to question a couple things though..
Very rarely seeing black (I've no idea from whence they came so I wouldn't collectivize them as Africans) folks on construction jobs.. I could take an easy shot here, but instead I'll say that mostly what I see on construction jobs are Latino looking folks, neither white nor black, so why the concern for just blacks?
Can't displace old-time Washingtonians? ..umm, who might have lived there before the black folks moved in? Was it OK to displace those folks?
Jobs for black people.. great idea! But why just for black folks? Are black folks being restricted in some way from becoming employed? Did all the white people in DC have another one of their secret meetings and decide not to hire black folks?
"apartheid" ? ...c'mon.
Dale:
You sound like an authority on the subject. Of course it's a smear, and it's well-deserved.
So what if R3 were an authority on it? Information is a good thing, even on topics that one isn't necessarily interested in. Thanks to many of your posts I have an insight to the lifestyles of men who look like men but have pussies and the men who love them. I'm not chuffed about it but it doesn't bother me either.. it's just info that I find a little distasteful and amusing. I'd never ostracize you for your sexual kinks though. It's the old "if you want to be free you have to let others be free as well" thing. I think many people make the mistake of being critical of only whites when it comes to racism.
R3 is right. It is collectivist to say that all white separatists are the same. Christians, neo-heathen-pagans, rednecks, atheists.. there are even "white separatist" movements in Portugal.. Russia, Poland. Very diverse.
Are any of you bothered by the ease in which blacks can openly declare their preference for other blacks without any societal repercussions, or is it only offensive when whites do it?