Did you know that back in the day when the notoriously racist-sexist-homophobic white working class was getting out of the black-crime-infested inner cities that something else was going on?
As in “black flight?”
I had no idea. But it turns out that middle class black families like the Robinsons were pulling up stakes too? Robinsons? Oh, you know all about them. Jack Cashill:
middle-class blacks were as likely to flee the urban decay of the 1960s and 1970s as were whites. Michelle’s parents, Marian and Fraser Robinson, were among those to pull up stakes.
As in Michelle Obama. OMG. See, Michelle’s parents were just as frightened by lower-class blacks as you and I.
Rather than send her daughter to Dulles with the “project kids,” Marian registered Michelle and Craig at Bryn Mawr Elementary in South Shore, a 15-minute drive from their Parkway Gardens home. This was illegal. To send a child to a school out of district was a Class C misdemeanor. The Robinsons risked it.
Of course they did. That’s what any good parents do.
BTW, “project kids” means kids from the gubmint housing projects. Also known in middle-class black circles as “the element.”
Now, Jack Cashill, with his book Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America’s Cities, is mainly concerned here with black hypocrisy.
But I prefer the Ike approach, to make the problem bigger.
What is the problem that the white deplorables and the black innocents are illuminating?
Maybe gubmint housing projects are a bad idea? Because you get an artificial concentration of poor and ungovernable people? Maybe, in fact, it would be better for poor people and society in general if poor people all had to live in privately owned buildings and apartments, and could be evicted upon the whim of the eevil landlord? As an encouragement for good behavior?
I’ve been reading Fanny Burney’s Evelina, about life in London, England, in the mid-18th century. Everyone was either renting a room in someone’s house or they were renting out rooms in their house. Sounds good to me.
Seems we don’t do this any more. I wonder why?
Then, of course, there is the question of welfare. Could it be that if the lower class had to get jobs, any jobs, and they could be fired on the whim of the employer, that there would be a lot less crime and violence in the black community?
In Charles Murray’s Coming Apart he writes about the white lower class, where the men don’t work much and the women don’t marry much.
You think that maybe if lower-class women needed to get married to the fathers of their children in order to keep them alive and the fathers needed to get jobs to support the mothers of their children that things would go a lot better in American’s cities?
Really, I have no idea. I defer to the experts on this.