Sunday, December 29, 2013

2013 in review: II

This March post delved into the issue of "black flight" from Jackson.  JJ reviewed the change in black enrollment in schools that are adjacent to Jackson.  Needless to say, blacks are fleeing Jackson in greater numbers and are doing it more quickly as this post reported.  Original post.  Needless to say, this is an issue that is not covered in the local media much less the local political races. 

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Like I said back in March, if they hate us, why do they CONTINUE to move to white neighborhoods? Not a rhetorical question.

Anonymous said...

Wait and see. In ten years madison county will be a ghetto.

Anonymous said...

I don't know about that. Most of the middle to upper income blacks moving to Madison detest the ghetto crowd more than most white residents because they are being driven out of their own neighborhoods. Places like Presidential Hills were once full of educated upper middle class blacks. The same people fleeing Jackson and sending their kids anywhere but JPS.

Anonymous said...

It is all simply the white man keeping the black man down. The conspiracy we white folks plot and plan daily.....just ask around.

Anonymous said...

Voting Republican with their feet.

Anonymous said...

Y'all simply don't understand how the ghetto starts. Once the blacks have fled JPS, and are in a good school district, they will invite their nieces and nephews over. So that they can have a good school district as well. The problem is the culture these students will bring with them. The whites will leave again, taking their money with them.

bill said...

I think the population has a way of balancing itself. It's no secret that many people who live in Madison and Rankin County suburbs still work in Jackson, so how much further are they going to move? Yazoo County? Leake? Copiah? At some point the drive to Jackson isn't worth living out in the country away from the things that you don't like about living in town. Factor in the higher cost of real estate, whether buying or renting, and it's doubtful that Madison will ever turn into a ghetto.

Bill Dees said...

KF, I think the black flight from Jackson is a "fact", not an "issue".

Anonymous said...

Some of the comments make me really sad about race relations in this state. I really wish we could work together more to change some of these attitudes on both sides.

Anonymous said...

12:41. You really don't get out much do you. Try going to Chicago or Boston or NYC. We, here in Mississipp, really only deal with 2 races and 1 religion. These other places, esp in the north have many more problems than we could ever know when it comes to each other's differences. Whites and blacks don't bother each other here. Go to these northern cities and see some really problems. In 1959, Chicago was declared the most segregated city in the nation by the U.S. Civil Rights Committee. In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. stated that he had “never seen something so hostile and so hateful” anywhere in the South as he had in Chicago, after he was hit in the head by a rock from a crowd of jeering whites in Marquette Park on Chicago’s southwest side. People love to bash the south but, we have nothing on the liberal Yankees

Anonymous said...

8:58 pm Other places do have problems.
We can't do anything about Chicago or Boston but we sure as hell are responsible for making things better in Mississippi!
That others do worse or have it worse so we're " not too bad" by comparison is a ridiculous argument.

Anonymous said...

Hey 12:22. I am a beleaguered white male, happy in my own skin. It is not my responsibility to try and lift up the AA community. They could do that internally but never will. Whining about being oppressed is s much easier. Panic has set in. Fear of being "left behind". And, I might add, with good reason.

Now turn yo cap around, pull up your crotch riders, and get with the program. IE: get a profession and go to work.



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