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[quote=Anonymous]Eh, folks, I don't think that most "white folk" are afraid of black people, not in the old-style way of thinking about things.  Folks with aspirations and the means to attain them choose neighborhoods where the people around them are also very, very likely to be attaining those same dreams (not just aspiring to them: attaining them).  And the risks associated with crime are real, not imagined, and that motivates people's choices, too.  Maybe the risk of environment to any specific individual is lower than presumed, sure... but with choice comes, well, choice for less risk. Again, it is not blackness or "other ethnicity" that is at issue for most people, I don't think.

Send your kid to a school where 90% vs. 50% are reaching even the low state standards for being "on track"... well, c'mon, think about it.  That's a big margin.

Live in a neighborhood where gunshots are nearly zippo versus in a place where folks know to hunker down at night.  Hmm, almost a no-brainer.

I lived in DC by choice.  Then I had kids.  And then I got out, because I couldn't afford the options for a really good education or to live in a neighborhood that was safe enough--it's all relative risk, of course.  But the differences in quality of ed and neighborhood safety between where I was in DC and where I am now are real.

I am a strong proponent of affordable and integrated housing, social supports, etc., to have much less economic segregation and isolation.  But I'd like to see that implemented on a large scale--a few "volunteers" are but drops in the ocean.[/quote]

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