Jean toomer
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If Kansas City isn’t on the list then it’s trash.
Top 10 most segregated cities in the U.S.???
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There is a difference between being segregated where you can't move into a community because of spoken or unspoken reasons; versus being segregated because you are financially unable to move.
Chrishaune
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When black folks started living in the cities for the jobs white people starting building suburbs to get away.
Nearly every major city in the south developed like that. Over time black folks along with other groups moved into the suburbs. White people mostly kept moving out further into more suburbs.
I am literally from the area that you are writing so eloquently about and I am telling you that White people suburbs were built into towns that already had sizeable Black populations. If you go anywhere east of Memphis, except for Germantown, you run into areas that had sizeable Black populations. Places like Collierville, Cordova and all the way out in place like Eads and into Fayette County towns like Oakland. Those areas were heavily Black when White people moved there.
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I knew that was some BS when I saw Memphis on the list. Memphis is one city where no matter where you live nikkas is right around the corner. You have to go all the way east past collierville into Fayette county before black folks get phased out.
Chrishaune
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How is that proving the list wrong when you just described white flight?
They pretty much gave Memphis to black folks over the last half century.
Just another form of segregation. Self segregation.
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How did I describe white flight? I said nikkas are everywhere around Memphis and you need to go way out into a specific different county before you start seeing less black faces.
Oh you must have took that as white people are running out into Fayette county. Ummm no, aint shyt out there but farms and woods.
Memphis is mixed, go north into Tipton County and it’s mixed, south into Desoto County and it’s mixed. The only area not mixed is the area I mentioned where hardly anyone lives or wants to live.
What is segregated is the school system though. They have expensive ass private schools everywhere that white folks send their kids to. But as i said, the areas surrounding those schools are mixed.
Black people are not phased out in Collierville and Fayette County. Fayette County used to be predominantly Black and still has a sizeable Black population in Oakland, Somerville, etc. Collierville used to have a predominantly Black population until White started acquiring land an building homes. All of this has just happened in the last 20 to 30 years.
I'm not really shocked about chicago.
Even the neighborhoods that are mixed or diverse on paper are still pretty segregated whether it's socially or by some physical barrier like a viaduct.
Nyc is segregated too, the way the city is set up, you're kind of forced to rub elbows with different types of people whether you want to or not. San Francisco/ bay area is the only other region that I can think of that has a similar set up with it being densely populated and having a compressed topography.
And There are areas like that in chicago too, but there are huge swaths of neighborhoods that are all black and you can be in your own world totally unaware of the rest of the diversity that exists in the city. Same with the white people who live in these yuppified hoods up on the north side.
But both cities and most northern cities in general are much more segregated than these post WW2 built southern cities.
Even the neighborhoods that are mixed or diverse on paper are still pretty segregated whether it's socially or by some physical barrier like a viaduct.
Nyc is segregated too, the way the city is set up, you're kind of forced to rub elbows with different types of people whether you want to or not. San Francisco/ bay area is the only other region that I can think of that has a similar set up with it being densely populated and having a compressed topography.
And There are areas like that in chicago too, but there are huge swaths of neighborhoods that are all black and you can be in your own world totally unaware of the rest of the diversity that exists in the city. Same with the white people who live in these yuppified hoods up on the north side.
But both cities and most northern cities in general are much more segregated than these post WW2 built southern cities.
There are still some zip codes here where you’ll struggle to find black folks
I used to go out to my people farms and houses in Fayette County and Collierville. That area used to be almost all Black until white people started buying up farms and building homes out there 20 to 30 years ago.
Which ones?
Formerly Black Trash
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I be shocked when I find out Black kids in other states went to school with white people
Formerly Black Trash
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A Black person can live anywhere they want to in Detroit
It's still segregated
Idk about Memphis