New official Census results for Detroit's Inner ring suburbs

[Danny]

I believe the old science went like this:

If you're white, you're alright.
If you're brown, stick around.
If you're black, get back.

And "whites" exclusively meant Anglo-Saxon Christian protestants. Except when they needed some help keeping the blacks down. Then they'd say, "OK, this year, we'll let the Irish think they're white. We need some help keeping down the 'other.'" Then, they'd tell the Greeks and Russians that they were white. Finally, they told the Jews and Italians they were white. Then, as a last great bulwark against nonwhites, we're calling Arabs and Indians white.



How can you tell you're white? That's easy. You're not non-white. Your job as a white person is to keep non-whites down.

That's why I prefer European or Caucasian as a term. I know it's all fuzzy, but ...

Hitler once said, "I can tell who's white if they had blond hair and blue eyes and not to bow to the idols that are hidden in the Roman Catholic Church or just being a jew!"

[Danny]

It's amazing!


Harper Woods has a black community. According U.S. Census fact finder, In 2009 its population was 25% Now in 2011 its 45.6% While its white population decreased from 71% in 2009 to 49% in 2011. Signs of white flight in Harper Woods is gaining full steam! No wonder I look the Schooldigger.com and see the Harper Woods Public School District when its black student population is over 50%.

When I was a kid my dad, my cousin and my sister was cruising in Harper Woods and the Grosse Pointes and was mostly white about 90%. I see only one to two black middle class families living every 5 blocks.

Therefore in each Harper Woods neighborhood [[ I mean ghettohood) There must be 25 to 50 black middle class and some low-income HUD supported families living in every block. It's shopping district in Kelly Rd. is fine but will it last? and what about its ghettohood? It's up to them to maintain those homes or mess it up.

WORD FROM THE STREET PROPHET

Looks like the name change from Harper Woods to Grosse Pointe Heights is put away in the closet.

Neda, I miss you so.

[Detroitej72]

Therefore in each Harper Woods neighborhood [[ I mean ghettohood) There must be 25 to 50 black middle class and some low-income HUD supported families living in every block. It's shopping district in Kelly Rd. is fine but will it last? and what about its ghettohood?

I have relatives living in Harper Woods, and would hardly call it a ghettohood. You might want to check out the area between Beaconsfield east across I-94 to the Grosse Pointe Woods boarder, hardly a ghetto area.

[Danny]

It's Harper woods is a ghetto alright. Reports of rise of crime. Folks smoking weed inside their homes. I don't care if that ghettohood looks very pretty with their manicured lawns.

[Gistok]

It's Harper woods is a ghetto alright. Reports of rise of crime. Folks smoking weed inside their homes. I don't care if that ghettohood looks very pretty with their manicured lawns.

Danny, what makes you think only folks in a ghetto smoke weed in their homes? If that's the criteria... then all of America is a ghetto...

[Danny]

It sure is..... We Americans are mostly drug prone that its our birthright.

[Red Devil]

Danny, what are the stats on Livonia?

[KJ5]

Danny, what the hell is up with your grammar? Your verb tenses are whacked.

[Zacha341]

That's correct in my understanding.

Arabs are considered white by the census, i think.

[Vox]

It sure is..... We Americans are mostly drug prone that its our birthright.

It's obvious, just looking at this thread.

[Danny]

Danny, what are the stats on Livonia?

Livonia's population is 92% white and 3% black. Livonia still is and to this day the 'Whitest' suburb in all of Wayne County. It's police force is still in the 'racial profiling, stopping speeders' business. Every block by block is 90% white and that city will stay white for the next 30 years.

[iheartthed]

People of different "races" can be more closely related, genetically, than people of the same "race".

Ironically, this story about a pair of twins in England, one "white" and the other "black", was just published recently:

The two teenage boys sitting on the sofa opposite are different in almost every way. On the left is James: he's black, he's gay, he's gregarious, and he's academic. He's taking three A-levels next summer, and wants to go to university. Daniel, sitting beside him, is white. He's straight, he's shy, and he didn't enjoy school at all. He left after taking GCSEs, and hopes that his next move will be an apprenticeship in engineering.

So, given that they are diametrically opposed, there is one truly surprising thing about James and Daniel. They are twins. They were born on 27 March 1993, the sons of Alyson and Errol Kelly, who live in south-east London. And from the start, it was obvious to everyone that they were the complete flipside of identical. "They were chalk and cheese, right from the word go," says Alyson. "It was hard to believe they were even brothers, let alone twins."

The boys' colour was the most obvious, and extraordinary, difference. "When James was born he was the spitting image of Errol, and I remember seeing his curly hair and thinking – he's just like his dad. It was another two hours before Daniel was born: and what a surprise he was! He was so white and wrinkly, with this curly blond hair."

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So how does it happen that a white and a black partner – who would usually produce, as Alyson and Errol did in their other children, black-skinned offspring – have a child who is as white as his mum? I spoke to Dr Jim Wilson, population geneticist at Edinburgh University – and his first question was, "What is Errol's heritage?" Errol is Jamaican – and that, says Jim, is the basic explanation.

"It wouldn't really be possible for a black African father and a white mother to have a white child, because the African would carry only black skin gene variants in his DNA, so wouldn't have any European DNA, with white skin variants, to pass on," he explains.

"But most Caribbean people, though black-skinned, have European DNA because in the days of slavery, many plantation owners raped female slaves, and so introduced European DNA into the black gene pool.

"The thing about skin colour is that even a bit of African DNA tends to make a person's skin colour black – so to be white, the child must have inherited more of the father's European DNA with its white skin variants. Added to the mother's European DNA, this led to a child with white skin – while his brother, who is black-skinned, inherited more of his father's African DNA.

"The Caribbean father will have less European DNA than African DNA, so it's more likely he'll pass on African DNA – but rarely, and I've worked it out to be around one in 500 sets of twins where there's a couple of this genetic mix, the father will pass on a lot of European DNA to one child and mostly African DNA to the other. The result will be one white child and one black."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...ns-black-white

[East Detroit]

Danny,

What are the stats in 48021?

Dont care about the race stats, more interested in things that matter like median income.

Also, can you comment on why you believe the race stats are of interest?

Thanks!

[JenniferL]

Some of those stats sound a bit off. I would have guessed a higher percentage of African-Americans in both Ferndale and Hazel Park and a lower percentage of whites in Southfield and Oak Park.