The 'trend' seems like success. Back in the day, the goal was 'integration'.
Isn't this what we wanted? A community with diversity? But I guess being the poster-child for attribute-based privilege, I can't see the concern that black residents have towards a re-taking of their neighborhood by people who are more privileged than they are. This privilege counting is tiring.
But let's accept it here. What's the fear? That schools will starting being named after Europeans again. Out with MLK school. In with Jeremy Corbin school? History being erased doesn't stop. Once we accept that a neighborhood can erase white history, you have to accept that black history will get erased another day. [[Which is why we should not erase history.). If the incoming residents are purchasers, and the existing residents are renters, this is a concern. But we know that the gov't solutions to this kind of problem are worse than the disease. I would hope that current community groups are working hard to get black buyers into the market. That's the only solution. Use the system against itself, if you will.
Same as my last point above. Are they? If not, why not. If we are not to have a racial/owner-renter divide, we need to do something now while the 'hood is still a 'bargain'.
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