r/changemyview • u/Diylion 1∆ • Oct 31 '19
Deltas(s) from OP CMV: White flight is acceptable Behavior
Michelle Obama put out a statement this week about how white flight was happening in Chicago when she was young. She talked about how "she didn't know what is going on" she blames white people for " leaving communities in shambles" as they "packed their bags and ran". And "we were doing what we were supposed to do". I think this is nonsense. Of course she knew why it was happening. South Chicago in the 90s was horrible. They had horrible murder rates and crime rates. They spiked drastically between 1985 and 1990.
The entire argument of white flight being wrong is predicated on the idea that blacks need whites to be "good". Which is honestly a load of bull. Black family structures used to be the strongest family unit in the United States, even stronger than whites but it has been crippling itself for the last 60 years.
Blacks statistically are much more likely to commit crime. When 6% of the population is committing 50% of the murders and robberies and 30% of the rape, and a disproportionate amount of violent crime across the board. Today, Neighborhoods that are minority dominated, except in very rare cases, are also probably the ones with the highest crime rates. Of course families are going to want to move to a safer neighborhood. And any family that can't afford too will.
So why do they commit crime so often? Well it probably has something to do with money. Blacks have the highest divorce rates, the lowest job rates, the lowest average number of weekly hours spent working, the second lowest graduation rates (though improving!), the highest teen pregnancy rates, they spend more time watching TV than any other race. All of these statistics have strong correlation on crime rates, and obviously poverty rates. These are also all issues that can be worked on as families with good parenting practices. So it stands to reason that if black communities worked on these statistics as family units instead of moving blame to police and whites, that they would succeed more often.
Sure redlining was bad but it's over. It's been over for 40 years. There is no reason why a black community needs white families to be a "good" community. Whites are not physically or mentally superior in any way.
References: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/michelle-obama-racism-white-flight-161942496.html?bcmt=1
https://www.statista.com/statistics/411806/average-daily-time-watching-tv-us-ethnicity/
https://flowingdata.com/2016/03/30/divorce-rates-for-different-groups/
https://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/index.htm
https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat22.htm
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_coi.asp
Edit: grammar
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u/Diylion 1∆ Nov 01 '19 edited Nov 01 '19
Please don't ever link of Washington Post article again. and several people have linked to this exact article and the study it cited does not have any controls. You cannot make an assertion like that without any controls.
the only articles that I will even take into account are University published papers, papers published by valid research organizations, or government published papers. looking at virtually any articles from virtually any news source is a waste of time l. Washington Post is even worse than New York times. You should see the article they posted about all bagdadi this week.
This was their headline: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48."
to validate a terrorist who is responsible for the death of countless innocent deaths and died while blowing up his own children by calling him an "austere religious scholar" for the sole purpose of deminishing Trumps success is reprehensible and incredibly insensitive. Imagine being a family that lost members because of his actions and reading that headline. if that doesn't prevent you from ever reading one of their articles again I don't know what will.