USA Today Jan 31, 2012
“Study Finds Black Segregation in Cities is lowest in Century”
Black segregation from other racial groups has hit its lowest point in more than a century – declining in all 85 of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas – but social and income inequality persist.
A Manhattan Institute reports, which came out on Monday, that “all-white neighborhoods are effectively extinct”.
Harvard University Economics Professor Edward Glaeser and Duke University Professor Jacob Vigdor found that black suburbanization, gentrification, access to credit, fair housing laws and immigration have all contributed to a significant decline in black segregation.
Some of the once-most-segregated cities such as Detroit and Kansas City have seen declines, driven by an exodus of blacks to the suburbs and other regions.
Common Sense Review
Finally someone steps up to the plate and discusses the sense of segregation in today society. It is not the early 1900s and we should not look at race relations in the same way.
How can we see our future brighter when we can’t have an honest perception of reality now?
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