From the print and online editions of the nation's premier urban-policy magazine http://www.city-journal.org/cj-comments.xml?story=8320 Manhattan Institute Please keep them up North. Facts prove that their increase in numbers equal increased in crime and violence. I know people will cry racism but this is factual (not just a feeling). Not to mention hearing more whining about what we owe them, just make it stop, so we can get on with life. Let me live and work in safety and comfort without hearing how bad of a person I am and what I owe the african race. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19230 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19230 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:34:14 EDT I find it quite interesting that some of the least ethnically "diverse" states are also the ones that have elected non-white candidates to high office. Were Mia Love to be elected to Congress in 2012, she would represent one of, if not these, whitest district in America. Could it be that we're really post-racial after all? http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19229 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19229 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:33:50 EDT [T]he liberal North’s failure to integrate African-Americans into the mainstream. Spare me. The fault lies not with the cities, but with the African-Americans. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19227 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19227 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:41:03 EDT The cities didn't fail Blacks. Blacks destroyed the cities. It is impossible to integrate savages into the modern world. Wherever Blacks (and Hispanics) settle, the crime rate soars, property values plummet, the standards of behavior become crude and primitive, the schools essentially cease to exist, the rule of law vanishes and the area becomes a parasitic consumer of taxes. This is because Blacks and Hispanics have low-IQs, bad characters and poor impulse control. The very idea that Whites are at all responsible for Black and/or Hispanic failure is nothing but a destructive, leftist lie calculated to undermine civilization. This is a lie that slanders Whites and absolves Blacks and Hispanics of any responsibility for their chronic failures. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19226 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19226 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:41:07 EDT Like http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19224 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19224 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:41:53 EDT I don't know why Native American reservations have been brought into this thread. Elizabeth Warren is Native American, and she has been a college professor, a leading intellectual light of the Native American contingent of the Democrat Party, and is now poised to become a U.S. Senator and become the first Native American to pitch her tent in front of the Senate Office Building. Quite an accomplishment, I must say. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19222 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19222 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:59:49 EDT Is this a serious article? The 'great' migration killed once prosperous cities. Cities are pieces of acreage filled by people. They are not independent entities. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19221 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19221 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:53:02 EDT The cities didn't fail blacks. Blacks destroyed the cities. Wherever blacks (and Hispanics) settle the crime rate skyrockets, the schools essentially cease to exist, property values plummet, the level of behavior declines drastically and chaos rules. That is because blacks and Hispanics have low IQs, bad characters and extremely poor impulse control. For you to blame ANYBODY but blacks is quite simply a leftist lie, unless of course you really believe this nonsense; in that case you are merely a fool. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19219 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19219 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:55:15 EDT History teaches us no group of people is destined to live anywhere in particular â€" migration is the historical norm from movements like the Magyar migration from the Urals to modern day Hungary or ancient Asian tribes crossing the Bering Strait to eventually become a people known as the pre-Colombian Aztecs. What should surprise us isn’t the re-migration of blacks to the South but rather the creation of modern day Indian Reservations we refer to as urban ghettos. And while the San Carlos Reservation of Arizona doesn’t much resemble modern day Detroit in geographic features there are distinct similarities. For example, the Apaches of San Carlos are among the poorest of Native Americans with a median household income of $14,000 and, like Detroit, unemployment among the residents is very high. No one migrates into San Carlos but out-migration isn’t uncommon, leaving a resident population dwindling to below 10,000 souls. And, like the Apache Gold casino of San Carlos, Detroit has also discovered casino gambling as a way to attract gamblers and their much needed dollars. Originally, the federal government forced diverse Apache tribes into an inhospitable area lacking water and other means to support life which is a situation not parallel to the original African-American migration into today’s urban ghettos like Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, South Bend, Toledo, Flint, etc. But, unlike San Carlos, our government finds ingenious ways to dump our tax dollars into these racial enclaves in exchange for votes. Not much national attention â€" or racial guilt - is directed towards the poverty and unemployment within San Carlos while exactly the opposite is true for reservations like Detroit or Chicago. Yet, it’s hard not to see the cultural and economic similarities. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19218 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19218 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:40:09 EDT Lots of loathsome racism in the coments... Let me tell you white supremacists something... People of Color have many children white people do not have children white women are increasingly having children with Men of Color soon whites will be a minority in the USA we had better treat People of Color better so that they will treat us nicely when they take power http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19217 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19217 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:29:17 EDT In all of history, there has never been a single example where quality of life was improved by an influx of black people. As the black population increases, the corresponding increase in violent crime is as predictable as night following day. This article seeks to absurdly and disingenuously blame "cities" for black failure. How disappointing... http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19216 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19216 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:21:29 EDT How did this piece meet the standards of CJ? There is no city that can or ever has met the needs of blacks, including black run Atlanta. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19215 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19215 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:16:27 EDT The migration from the inner cities of the North to the cities and rural communities of the once-segregated South is not just a movement of retirees and adult families. Many black families, particularly those headed by single mothers, send the children back South to spend summers with aunts or grandparents. The inner cities of the North are extremely violent and dangerous year-round, and in the summer, when the public schools, which function as little more than a baby-sitting service for so much of the urban population, are closed, the streets are a very dangerous place for children to play or just hang out. There is no father in the picture to watch out for the children, take them to the park or to the beach or to the movies while mom is out working or at home fast asleep. The rural areas of the South are as a rule a lot safer for children just to be children. Plus their mothers continue to collect a wide array of government benefits for the children - food stamps, welfare, WIC, etc.- even though they are not supporting the children for the summer months, so it's a little extra cash for mom. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19213 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19213 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:52:17 EDT Maybe they should remigrate back to Africa. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19212 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19212 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:40:51 EDT Having grown up in Cleveland,I watched it go to ruin.Why??? The mass migration north. Businesses gone,neighborhoods decimated.As a child, I had seen newly arrived immigrants cleaning the sidewalks in front of their homes ,with a broom and a bucket of water.In 15yrs time, it became too dangerous to walk anywhere on that once cared for street ,now littered, neglected and homes abandoned. I can never go back to my childhood home.It's been bulldozed down to just an empty lot. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19211 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19211 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:17:04 EDT When I was in college 40 years ago, I wrote a paper in a Sociology class on the migration of blacks from the South to work in war plants in the North and West in WW 2. This excellent article sort of completes the circle. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19209 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19209 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:33:46 EDT The Northern cities did not "fail" blacks. Blacks stripped them clean like a swarm of locusts, and are now heading back south because they have nowhere else to go. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19208 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8320#19208 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:48:13 EDT