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I'm glad you mentioned that because there's a bit of history there and its called "redlining," a practice of determining which neighborhoods to approve mortgages in and which to deny them.
From the 1930s through the 1960s, the FHA explicitly refused to back loans for African American home buyers — subsequently pushing many of them into declining and high-poverty areas.
From there, some minorities were victims of predatory lending or they were relegated to renting and pushed out of homeownership entirely.
So getting back to your comment about "not really a resident, really more of a transient tenant" — that's bullshit.
The predominantly black neighborhoods where people are getting displaced out of their homes had residents who lived there for 40/50 years.
Some were owners some were renters but they weren't transients.

However, because those black residents were often subjected to higher interest rates AND because higher interest rates make homeownership less affordable because they increase the amount of a borrower’s monthly income devoted to his or her mortgage payment AND because those homeowners did not see the same appreciation rates as homes in white neighborhoods AND because minority homeowners were disproportionately affected by the recession WHICH left many of those black residents owing more for their homes than their homes were worth...they get pushed out.

Now, when you couple that whole chain of events in conjunction with all the moves that usually happen prior to the actual displacement of the residents themselves — new owners buying up and closing down shops and business that employed many of the residents in those black neighborhoods thus putting them in the predicament where they can't work and thus can't pay their rent or mortgage — and you can see its a pretty streamlined process of how black people in those neighborhoods are being displaced.
It's not pure chance or happenstance.

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Anonymous wrote:There will always be white flight as white people are fickle and scare easy

Exactly.

That's why it was brave black people who enslaved their fellow not-that-brave black people.

Explains much, doesn't it?

Anonymous wrote:There will always be white flight as white people are fickle and scare easy

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Anonymous wrote:No one would call a crayon box with only three crayons diverse, you know what I mean.

Yes exactly.
Especially if the white crayon insists that the brown and red and yellow crayons assimilate to "fit in" and prohibit them from expressing their individual culturally identifying hues.
That's definitely not diversity when everybody's the same just darker versions of white people.

What? In what way are whites prohibiting Indians, Arabs and Asians from expressing their culture? I mean have you even tried?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one would call a crayon box with only three crayons diverse, you know what I mean.

Yes exactly.
Especially if the white crayon insists that the brown and red and yellow crayons assimilate to "fit in" and prohibit them from expressing their individual culturally identifying hues.
That's definitely not diversity when everybody's the same just darker versions of white people.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one would call a crayon box with only three crayons diverse, you know what I mean.

Yes exactly.
Especially if the white crayon insists that the brown and red and yellow crayons assimilate to "fit in" and prohibit them from expressing their individual culturally identifying hues.
That's definitely not diversity when everybody's the same just darker versions of white people.

Ok. That’s probably very insulting to many POC who live quietly and inoffensively in the way they want to and there’s you telling them they don’t count?

You’re also implying there’s only one “white” way to live, which is nonsense.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one would call a crayon box with only three crayons diverse, you know what I mean.

Yes exactly.
Especially if the white crayon insists that the brown and red and yellow crayons assimilate to "fit in" and prohibit them from expressing their individual culturally identifying hues.
That's definitely not diversity when everybody's the same just darker versions of white people.