Long accused of racism and ‚;white flight, ‚ the ethnic Americans driven from their homes and neighborhoodsthe author includedfinally get the chance to tell their side of the story.‘;A startlingly honest and poignant look at ‚;white flight‘ from the white perspective. A necessary and overdue corrective.‘ Brent Bozell III, founder and president of the Media Research Center I asked one lifelong friend, a rare Democrat among the displaced, why he and his widowed mother finally left our block in the early 1970s, twenty years after the first African-American families moved in. He searched a minute for the right set of words, and then simply said, ‚;It became untenable.‘ When I asked what he meant by ‚;untenable, ‚ he answered, ‚;When your mother gets mugged for the second time, that’s untenable. When your home gets broken into for the second time, that’s untenable.‘ In researching this project, I found myself repeatedly stunned by the failure of self-described experts on white flight to ask those accused of fleeing why it was they fled. The reason the experts didn’t ask, I discovered, is that they were afraid of what they might learn.
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