Can One Blame These Richer Towns People For Wanting To Make A Better Life For Themselves?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/americas-new-apartheid-prosperous-white-districts-are-choosing-to-break-away-from-black-cities-and-go-it-alone-9695345.html

I may be accuse of posting yet one more American thread which also happens to contain black issues, but hey I make no apology, because I just thought they would make good debating threads.

/// Fortunate residents of this the relatively prosperous southern section of a city that is otherwise blighted by poverty, violence and a failing public school system, they are demanding the right to break away from it and forge a whole new city of their own. Putatively named St George, ///

/// Were it to become a city it would be 70 per cent white. Baton Rouge now is 55 per cent black and 40 per cent white. ///

[sp1814]

Bravo to them.

If it were down to me, there would be certain members of our 'community' that I would like to keep outside the garden gates.

Heh heh heh...

[boxtops]

They want to call it St George? - now why....?

[sp1814]

AOG

I don't see any problem with this. It's something that we all do either consciously or subconsciously. I will always book business flights when I'm travelling so that I don't have to sit any where near young children (noisy) and other certain demographics.

I choose to live in a nice part of London and I choose to associate with nice liberal-minded folk, rather than boorish knuckle-draggers.

There's nothing racist about what these people are doing. I'm sure if the CEO of a private bank, who happened to be black or Hispanic, were to buy a house there, they would receive no opposition.

Similarly, if a white trashy chav (or the American equivalent) were to try and 'get through the gates), they would meet with some resistance.

AOG - I am sure that you would be happy to have (say) Sir Trevor McDonald living next to you, than White Dee from Benefits Street, right?

It's not racism...it's common sense.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah good idea AOG
and of course the po' whites and trailer trash are on hand to wait on tables

[agchristie]

You only live once. If the opportunity presents itself for improvement who would hesitate?

Bound to be opposition but unless there are legal issues I can't see a problem.