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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you control for income black and white men commit crime at the same rates for the most part.  Whites (without controlling for income) are slightly more likely to use drugs.  White and black children are just as likely to commit crime, white children are vastly less likely to be reported for it or arrested (that school yard fight in high school where the white kid gets suspended and at another school the black kid gets arrested).

[b]What the OP is asking about is affluent blacks buying in her affluent community.  Some of you seem hellbent on proving blacks are inferior or are more violent, but you are wrong. Stick to the relevant facts and you will see if blacks can buy in your neighborhood, they are probably really similar to you (gasp).[/b][/quote]

Exactly. And this is why even many progressives will prefer to live in "lily white" upper NW or Bethesda, and that decision does not make them hypocrites. They simply want to live in a neighborhood with low crime and good schools. Now in this city, the low crime and good schools neighborhoods still tend to be very white. Not wanting to be a pioneer (and make your kids be a pioneer) in trying to change that doesn't make one a hypocrite. Their decision is not about race, it is about safety and schools and those are causally linked to SES, not race.[/quote]

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