I read the Stevie Ray Vaughan biography when I was a kid. He grew up in oak cliff. The book succinctly said that ‘white people who could afford to move, moved out of oak cliff practically overnight.’ The book was about SRV but that was an insight into urban migration patterns.
Its actually nice over there, its when you go down the street to Wheatland and Polk where things look bad the Carter area they talking about is those nice brick homes around the high school not Polk
I’m a black American woman, and people have the RIGHT to decide WHO they DON’T want to live around. Why would anyone want to live around a group of people who have a Reputation for ruining neighborhoods?
What??? Omg..don't you understand that the same race of people that took flight was the same race of people that started the problem in the 1st place with racist methods like blockbusting, redlining, and segregation..smh..the so called "ghetto" was created on purpose..im also a black American but understand the unfairness that was done to create the current outcome. No matter race or color where ever there's poverty most of the time theres going to be crime..
I had an eye opening experience in another Texas city. I was always told (as a young white kid) to stay out of a certain neighborhood. My academic decathlon team shared a bus with the academic decathlon team from that area high school on long road trips. I was astonished at how cool, nice, classy, kind, and smart(they won every medal in their division) they were. The school was practically all black. I noticed that race wasn’t even thought about compared to other city schools with very mixed demographics. It was just chill and we all got to celebrate some success together.
Actually no. They redlined the area making it impossible to invest within the area. Any area that goes without investment declines. This was a pattern all over America and the federal government admitted happened to black areas. They helped to assist in it. People always blame people but never the people who made it this way.
@@ConwayTruckload completely untrue. Parts of Oak Cliff generate more sales tax revenue than the majority of the suburban cities in Dallas County. If you believe that, then what started it? People love to say the problem, but never the reasons it became that way.
Lol unfortunately it's always you guys disrupting people's lives. It's been proven that you people don't want black people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Every time they did you people burned everything they worked hard to get to the ground or passed laws making it impossible to acquire anything.
