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This is incredible!!! What a beautiful journey you take us through in this Pilot episode, I am manifesting so many more. Congratulations Angela and team, I feel so informed and connected to the wonderful community and organizations you are sharing with us. So much Love! 💚💙💖💯
Im loving how Angela is spreading the word about the importance of plant-based eating and exposing the harsh realities of animal agriculture! Im sharing this, come join the conversation on social media and lets take a stand for compassion and sustainability
Bull. Read Thomas Sowell. Whites fled Newark and other cities due to the crime and social dysfunction caused by the new black arrivals. You cannot blame all of the problems of cities on white racism. Whites left Newark and other cities for good reason.
People that cant act civil there culture was crime and targets were white and whites were not allowed to fight back,same today white Lapdogs and the Klan with a tan.Whites were pushed out,and R.E. co.'s made out.Buiss.left because of crime thiefs no civil people same thing today NY 26 stores were forced out if any racism it was by Blacks.
Before Ms. Bouston from Princeton, the noted "expert on the great migration" on this subject [at least in this video] begins to use the word "racism" as the main impetus for whites leaving the city, she might want to read Jack Cashill's book, "Untenable", which I don't seem to see on her bookshelf(!); the book redefines "white flight" in Newark and elsewhere; Mr. Cashill offers his reasoning why white folks AND black folks left Newark in droves. Not very often do you hear the fact that moderate income black folks moved from Newark, as well as whites during the same time period. In the liberal/woke media, you could count the times you've read or heard that fact on one hand. I'm sure that there are records, charts and spread sheets to reflect this fact somewhere in the Newark Library. We must read and educate ourselves to the FACTS and not to the musings and just opinions of politicians or college professors, no matter how eloquent their argument may be at first blush. We must not allow ourselves to take anyone's edict as gospel. There is enough written on this "white flight" subject to offer many observations, more than just the one represented here. Educating ourselves is the only way for each one of us to learn and perhaps gain a better insight into the many facets of this complex subject. Question everyone's assumptions with knowledge. We all must learn to see by reading and understanding the facts, regardless where it may lead. We must permit ourselves to read, learn and judge for ourselves by reading; perhaps from the notable wisdom from such eloquent men AND women like Mr. Thomas Sowell, Carter G. Woodson, Lavern Spicer [former Florida congressional candidate], Walter Williams, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, Mia Love, Ben Carson and so many others. We must never become so afraid and so vehemently immovable in our beliefs and convictions that we become adversely and dangerously resistant to reading and listening to someone else's ideas, no matter how diametrically opposed to them we are, simply because they do not coincide with our own. Only from that point, we can then begin make our own judgements and avoid unwarranted assumptions. I'd urge caution in taking the word of Ms. Boustan verbatim, who most likely has just read about the subject; in addition, I'd suggest we read the testimony of those who actually lived in it...even after the "riots", "rebellion", "insurrection"; choose whichever moniker you wish to attach to the tragedy. My family lived in the West Ward more than 5 years after July of '67. My neighborhood, from the late 1940's thru 1972 was 16th Avenue and 17th Street, diagonal from West Side Park. My mom and dad and my brother lived there when it was a totally integrated neighborhood. My folks lived on South Orange Avenue and Bergen Street until 1948; needing more room they moved to the West Ward. Black folks, white folks, Italians, Russians, Jews... It was a great time to be a kid growing up in Newark. Went to S. 17th Street School, then to Irvington Tech. My mom and dad didn't earn over $65 bucks a week between the two of them, in all the years we lived in the West Ward. I had a paper route as did my brother to help the whole family get along financially. We had the same "problems" that most neighborhoods had, but not for the same reasons that Ms. Boustan alludes to, or that most folks attribute to living in a integrated neighborhood, to. Don't forget the book: "UNTENABLE" by JACK CASHILL, POST HILL PRESS
Nice job Billy controlling his instant cringe impulse at hearing Third Eye Blind mentioned right after Smashing Pumpkins... he must have known it was coming.
