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The story from amren along with some reader comments below.
Ron Fonger, Flint Journal, Jun. 27
FLINTWhite residents are packing up and leaving Flint's west side at an alarming ratemuch faster than other areas of the city's blacks become the majority in some neighborhoods for the first time.
In some areas where they were a majority in 1990, whites now make up only 10 percent of the population.
It is evident on streets around Northern High School, Ballenger Park and north of Civic Park Elementary School.
Although Flint lost thousand
of white residents from 1990-2000, according to census records, the departures are especially dramatic in five census tracts leading up to the western-most edge of the city.
In that area:
W
hites accounted for 69 percent of the population in an area
bordered by Flushing and Mackin roads in 1990 but just 22 percent 10 years later.
Whites were a majority of the population in 1990 from Mackin Road to Welch Boulevard but accounted for only one in 10 people in 2000.
The census tract that includes the sought-after Mott Park neighborhood was almost exclusively white (93 percent) in 1990. By 2000, the tract was 76 percent white and 18 percent black.
When I moved in nine years ago, I didn't notice a lot of black families. Now it's not unusual at all, said Mott Park resident Steve Wandmacher, 39, who is white.
" don't think it's white flight as much as elderly people moving out, he said.
The population shifts have caught the attention of the Genesee County Fai
r Housing Center, which mentioned the trend in a major report on racial shifting. The report first was released about two years ago but was updated as recently as last week.
Edward Hoort, ex
ecut
ive director of Legal Services of Eastern Michigan, which run
s the center, said the large number of whites leaving the west side is a sign of white flight and racism.
People don't mind integration until they start to feel outnumbered, Hoort said, citing studies that show whites move out faster when the number of blacks moving into an area passes a certain threshold.
" think it's a theory that is probably true (and) that's been a historical pattern in Flint, he said. As soon as we hit that magic number, people run.
(The racial shifting is) remarkably scary, and what it means for our community is remarkably scary.
The 2000 Census showed that in Genesee and other older, urban Michigan counties, black populations grew at a far faster pace than whites.
It's pockets lik
e the west side of Flint and, to a lesser degree, Flint Township and Mt. Morris Township that have fueled that pattern. Flint Township gained 2,824 black and 549 Hispanic residents from 1990
-2000, b
ut its white population dropped by 4,0331
3 percent.
Mt. Morris Township's black and Hispanic populations also saw gains while the number of white residents fell 18 percent in the same 10 year period.
Chester Coulter, 33, who lives on Copeman Boulevard near Milbourne Avenue, said he and his mother moved here more than 10 years ago from the Gundry Elementary School area, farther north in the city, for a better quality of life.
Coulter, who is black, notices several houses on his street where people come and go quickly, adding to the racial shifting.
Just 10 percent of the people in his census tract are white, compared to 54 percent in 1990.
Everybody gets along, he said of his block, sweeping the sidewalk in front of his home. White neighbors have been nice, Coulter said.
We don't have too many problems.
County Commissioner Floyd Clack, D-Flint, who represents much of the area where the percentage of white residents has dropped, said the chan
ges are simi
lar to shifts that have happened elsewhe
re in the city at different times.
" don't think it's any different than how things have been going since the 1960s, Clack said. Whites move out. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow. . . . People will come back.
Clack said some whites are likely leaving the west side because they feel uncomfortable as they become the minority in their neighborhood. But, he said, he's noticed more young white families moving into the city.
Blacks are mostly moving west from other parts of the city and finding established neighborhoods better than they are coming from, Clack said.
Richard Taylor, a member of Calvary United Methodist Church on Flushing Road in Flint, said parishioners in his church have seen the neighborhood around the church change over the years.
The church is in the west-side area where the racial statistics have shifted so much.
Taylor, who is white, moved back to Flint 12 years ago. He said church members hav
e started taking
prayer walks to acquaint members
better with the people who live around the church.
We recognize the neighborhood needs us, and we need the neighborhood, said Taylor, 70.
Farther north, Haskell Independent Crime Watch President John Foote calls himself an anomaly in his neighborhood in Census Tract 9, which stretches from Pasadena Avenue to Welch Boulevard.
Whites made up 8 percent of the population in that area in 2000, down from 29 percent in 1990. He moved into the neighborhood more than 30 years ago and believes the area has declined as fewer people own their own homes.
"'ve had friends say, 'Why in the hell don't you leave?' '' Foote said. (But) my wife and I are not harassed for being what we are. We try to live in peace.
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From: Roger
Well, Michael Moore will be happy about this. He seems to have a special affectio
n for blacks and a w
eird animus for his own race.
Maybe he can do a
documentary on how his home town was taken over and how much better it is now that icky whites like him are gone.
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From: Howard Fezell
"(The racial shifting is) remarkably scary, and what it means for our community is remarkably scary."
What is truly scary is the fact that most White Americans lack the will to stand up for their own racial interests, which includes speaking candidly about the social pathologies of non-Whites.
Commissioner Floyd Clack noted some whites are likely leaving the west side because they "feel uncomfortable as they become the minority in their neighborhood." What makes White people uncomfortable is the greater tendency of young Black males to commit crimes of violence
.
Communities like Flint have nowhere to go but to Hell-In-A-Handbasket. Like Detroit, this once thriving town will become part of the Third World, with
White Michigan taxpayers
expected to foot many of its bills.
The reporter for the News-Journal wouldn't dare mention that
if he wants to keep his job for a newspaper in a Black town.
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From: Bernie
AR readers might recall that in 1997 a group of 3-4 white kids were attacked in a black neighborhood in Flint. One - a young boy of about 12 - was beaten to death by blacks who objected to his skin color. A young white girl was raped and another white boy or girl was severely beaten. It was (of course) not called a hate crime (wrong color)even though the blacks yelled racial slurs at the white kids.
For some strange reason, Michael Moore never made a documentary about this (speedy and public trial by an impartial jury) that happened in his home town. And the fine reporter doesn't bring this up as a poss
ible reason for the ethnic cleansing happening in the grand ol' city of Flint.
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From: Teutonicus
What none of the
se articles mention is what
comes with blacks and hispanics as they move into predominantly white neighborhoods: anti-white crime, muggings, robberies, rapes, murders, decli
ning academic standards in public schools, and a generally less peaceful environment. I live in an area where the reverse is happening. We are tearing down housing projects and building lovely housing developments and parks in their stead. The community has gotten cleaner, quieter, and safer as a result, with more improvements slated for the next few years. It is an undeniable fact that quality of life is diminished when large numbers of non-whites come into our communities. When these places reach the "threshhold" mentioned in the article, it is probably the point at which everyone is kept up at night by hooped-out Honda Civics blasting rap music and loud throngs of blacks who gr
eet polite complaints with threats of violence as is so common is these situations. Besides, the complainers don't care about a mixed race co
mmunity living in peace; they o
nly care about whites leaving because we pay all the taxes and support all the businesses and community projects.
Top
From: jjj
'Integ
ration' is terrorism and ethnic cleansing aimed at poor and middle class white people. If any white government had perpetrated against a non-white population what the US government has perpetrated against whites these last 50 years,the UN would've sent in troops to topple such a government and bring its leaders to trial to face genocide charges. But since the international elite hates poor and middle class whites,one of the most massive and continual campaigns of ethnic cleansing in history continues unabated.
http://amren.com/news/news04/06/29/flint.html
The story from amren along with some reader comments below.
Ron Fonger, Flint Journal, Jun. 27
FLINTWhite residents are packing up and leaving Flint's west side at an alarming ratemuch faster than other areas of the city's blacks become the majority in some neighborhoods for the first time.
In some areas where they were a majority in 1990, whites now make up only 10 percent of the population.
It is evident on streets around Northern High School, Ballenger Park and north of Civic Park Elementary School.
Although Flint lost thousand
of white residents from 1990-2000, according to census records, the departures are especially dramatic in five census tracts leading up to the western-most edge of the city.
In that area:
W
hites accounted for 69 percent of the population in an area
bordered by Flushing and Mackin roads in 1990 but just 22 percent 10 years later.
Whites were a majority of the population in 1990 from Mackin Road to Welch Boulevard but accounted for only one in 10 people in 2000.
The census tract that includes the sought-after Mott Park neighborhood was almost exclusively white (93 percent) in 1990. By 2000, the tract was 76 percent white and 18 percent black.
When I moved in nine years ago, I didn't notice a lot of black families. Now it's not unusual at all, said Mott Park resident Steve Wandmacher, 39, who is white.
" don't think it's white flight as much as elderly people moving out, he said.
The population shifts have caught the attention of the Genesee County Fai
r Housing Center, which mentioned the trend in a major report on racial shifting. The report first was released about two years ago but was updated as recently as last week.
Edward Hoort, ex
ecut
ive director of Legal Services of Eastern Michigan, which run
s the center, said the large number of whites leaving the west side is a sign of white flight and racism.
People don't mind integration until they start to feel outnumbered, Hoort said, citing studies that show whites move out faster when the number of blacks moving into an area passes a certain threshold.
" think it's a theory that is probably true (and) that's been a historical pattern in Flint, he said. As soon as we hit that magic number, people run.
(The racial shifting is) remarkably scary, and what it means for our community is remarkably scary.
The 2000 Census showed that in Genesee and other older, urban Michigan counties, black populations grew at a far faster pace than whites.
It's pockets lik
e the west side of Flint and, to a lesser degree, Flint Township and Mt. Morris Township that have fueled that pattern. Flint Township gained 2,824 black and 549 Hispanic residents from 1990
-2000, b
ut its white population dropped by 4,0331
3 percent.
Mt. Morris Township's black and Hispanic populations also saw gains while the number of white residents fell 18 percent in the same 10 year period.
Chester Coulter, 33, who lives on Copeman Boulevard near Milbourne Avenue, said he and his mother moved here more than 10 years ago from the Gundry Elementary School area, farther north in the city, for a better quality of life.
Coulter, who is black, notices several houses on his street where people come and go quickly, adding to the racial shifting.
Just 10 percent of the people in his census tract are white, compared to 54 percent in 1990.
Everybody gets along, he said of his block, sweeping the sidewalk in front of his home. White neighbors have been nice, Coulter said.
We don't have too many problems.
County Commissioner Floyd Clack, D-Flint, who represents much of the area where the percentage of white residents has dropped, said the chan
ges are simi
lar to shifts that have happened elsewhe
re in the city at different times.
" don't think it's any different than how things have been going since the 1960s, Clack said. Whites move out. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow. . . . People will come back.
Clack said some whites are likely leaving the west side because they feel uncomfortable as they become the minority in their neighborhood. But, he said, he's noticed more young white families moving into the city.
Blacks are mostly moving west from other parts of the city and finding established neighborhoods better than they are coming from, Clack said.
Richard Taylor, a member of Calvary United Methodist Church on Flushing Road in Flint, said parishioners in his church have seen the neighborhood around the church change over the years.
The church is in the west-side area where the racial statistics have shifted so much.
Taylor, who is white, moved back to Flint 12 years ago. He said church members hav
e started taking
prayer walks to acquaint members
better with the people who live around the church.
We recognize the neighborhood needs us, and we need the neighborhood, said Taylor, 70.
Farther north, Haskell Independent Crime Watch President John Foote calls himself an anomaly in his neighborhood in Census Tract 9, which stretches from Pasadena Avenue to Welch Boulevard.
Whites made up 8 percent of the population in that area in 2000, down from 29 percent in 1990. He moved into the neighborhood more than 30 years ago and believes the area has declined as fewer people own their own homes.
"'ve had friends say, 'Why in the hell don't you leave?' '' Foote said. (But) my wife and I are not harassed for being what we are. We try to live in peace.
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Comments from Readers
From: Roger
Well, Michael Moore will be happy about this. He seems to have a special affectio
n for blacks and a w
eird animus for his own race.
Maybe he can do a
documentary on how his home town was taken over and how much better it is now that icky whites like him are gone.
Top
From: Howard Fezell
"(The racial shifting is) remarkably scary, and what it means for our community is remarkably scary."
What is truly scary is the fact that most White Americans lack the will to stand up for their own racial interests, which includes speaking candidly about the social pathologies of non-Whites.
Commissioner Floyd Clack noted some whites are likely leaving the west side because they "feel uncomfortable as they become the minority in their neighborhood." What makes White people uncomfortable is the greater tendency of young Black males to commit crimes of violence
.
Communities like Flint have nowhere to go but to Hell-In-A-Handbasket. Like Detroit, this once thriving town will become part of the Third World, with
White Michigan taxpayers
expected to foot many of its bills.
The reporter for the News-Journal wouldn't dare mention that
if he wants to keep his job for a newspaper in a Black town.
Top
From: Bernie
AR readers might recall that in 1997 a group of 3-4 white kids were attacked in a black neighborhood in Flint. One - a young boy of about 12 - was beaten to death by blacks who objected to his skin color. A young white girl was raped and another white boy or girl was severely beaten. It was (of course) not called a hate crime (wrong color)even though the blacks yelled racial slurs at the white kids.
For some strange reason, Michael Moore never made a documentary about this (speedy and public trial by an impartial jury) that happened in his home town. And the fine reporter doesn't bring this up as a poss
ible reason for the ethnic cleansing happening in the grand ol' city of Flint.
Top
From: Teutonicus
What none of the
se articles mention is what
comes with blacks and hispanics as they move into predominantly white neighborhoods: anti-white crime, muggings, robberies, rapes, murders, decli
ning academic standards in public schools, and a generally less peaceful environment. I live in an area where the reverse is happening. We are tearing down housing projects and building lovely housing developments and parks in their stead. The community has gotten cleaner, quieter, and safer as a result, with more improvements slated for the next few years. It is an undeniable fact that quality of life is diminished when large numbers of non-whites come into our communities. When these places reach the "threshhold" mentioned in the article, it is probably the point at which everyone is kept up at night by hooped-out Honda Civics blasting rap music and loud throngs of blacks who gr
eet polite complaints with threats of violence as is so common is these situations. Besides, the complainers don't care about a mixed race co
mmunity living in peace; they o
nly care about whites leaving because we pay all the taxes and support all the businesses and community projects.
Top
From: jjj
'Integ
ration' is terrorism and ethnic cleansing aimed at poor and middle class white people. If any white government had perpetrated against a non-white population what the US government has perpetrated against whites these last 50 years,the UN would've sent in troops to topple such a government and bring its leaders to trial to face genocide charges. But since the international elite hates poor and middle class whites,one of the most massive and continual campaigns of ethnic cleansing in history continues unabated.