Isaiah said:No HipHip, Mr. Blak!(smile!)
Firstly, there were NO such thing as Black Ghettoes before this migration of over 7-million African Americans between 1870 and 1970... I provided some of the numbers of the population dispersal and explosion into northern cities during the first half of the 20th century to give an example of how quickly we peopled the northern half of the United States... The ghettoes were created in Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, and New York because of 2 reasons... In Chicago and Detroit, for example, restrictive legal real estate covenants, which kept White persons who were moving out of their neighborhoods from selling their homes to Blacks, and simple White Flight, as happened in New York City...
In Detroit and Chicago, African Americans, though hemmed in on the South and North Sides of their cities, built strong business classes, where as in NYC, no strong business class of AFrican Americans ever developed - though the city was wide open for us to move as we pleased... So, segregation actually worked out to some extent, for brothers and sisters in Detroit and Chicago, where large businesses were actually built(Motown and Johnson Publishing)...
Peace!
Isaiah
I learned thru my studies about the creation of the modern ghettos in NYC....it made me furious to see how it went down. Blacks were already in ghetto areas that had blacks of varying wealth...and some owned houses and such. But Robert Moses tore down those old neighbourhoods (where the life of the community was on the street) and threw up the high rise hell's that many blacks and latinos in NYC now live in. That man had too much power and shifted people around like a game of sim city.....of course, everyone copies what NYC does so that spread accross america....at least the north east and mid west. It is a sad history.
What do you see as the benefits of having left the south?
When I think of the last place in North America I would ever live and that any black should want to live....the south gets in my head. I see it as backwards and stagnated.....a state of mind that perfection in the black community was attained within one generation or two after abolishon of slavery. Surely it wsnt all good for such a migration to happen? Much like the immigrants of today spreading accross the planet, blacks fled cause of push and pull factors....pull of jobs was one I know and push from racism. Why doesnt anyone speak of the good? Improvement does not always mean everything turns out right...look at immigrants who leave war torn countries and come to the US or Canada to end up in rat infested apartment complexes in neighbourhoods filled with drugs and violence.