http://hungryblues.disqus.com/enFri, 01 Oct 2004 11:55:16 -0000http://hungryblues.net/2004/09/29/those-helpful-africans/#comment-3207906One interesting thing about the voting problem--I'm assuming that's what you're making the comparison to--is that the disparities in electoral resource allocation to black and white communities is not only a southern thing. The <a href="http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/electoral_reform/residual_ballot.php" rel="nofollow">Harvard study</a> which I've <a href="http://minorjive.typepad.com/hungryblues/2004/08/we_who_believe_.html" rel="nofollow">written</a> about finds that, in general, throughough the US, the more Blacks in an electoral district,the more ballots that get cast but not counted.<br><br><br><br>Also there's <a href="http://www.niggerati.net/node/view/167" rel="nofollow">a good piece</a> on integration and white flight over at the Niggerati Network (Earl Dunovant's new group blog, in addition to <a href="http://www.prometheus6.org/" rel="nofollow">Prometheus 6</a>).Ben G.Fri, 01 Oct 2004 11:55:16 -0000http://hungryblues.net/2004/09/29/those-helpful-africans/#comment-3207905Talking with old-Montgomery people revealed similar stories: how real estate on the wrong side of town became undesirable, unsellable, overnight thanks to desegregation.<br><br><br><br>When we put our historic-neighborhood house up for sale, we were admonished, "don't sell to black, now..." Not "blacks", but "black". Anyone who's lived in the south awhile will recognize the phrase.<br><br><br><br>My feeling was I'll sell to whoever brings the right price -- green is the color that concerns me. But rather than try to re-educate white retirees, I kept quiet.<br><br><br><br>Economic discrimination.... right. Still injustice, no matter what adjective is used.JeffThu, 30 Sep 2004 11:22:47 -0000