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  1. Thank you Neo, for covering this. Tangentially, I’m very curious about the incestuous history of black militancy and the nation of islam, but it seems like a topic someone could spend many years studying before managing to even scratch the surface.

  2. Speaking of Newark–and of Leroi Jones–I recently read a book by a Newark native: Jack Cashill’s Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America’s Cities. He points out that it was black crime—not the mere migration of blacks to Newark—that drove ethnic whites from Newark. “Untenable” was the word that some ethnic whites gave to their remaining presence in neighborhoods dealing with black crime and black assaults. It took more than one such incident for them to decide to leave.

    He points out that Michelle Obama has claimed that whites fled the mere migration of blacks to the South Side of Chicago—with no mention of black crime that pushed whites out.

    “As families like ours, upstanding families like ours, who were doing everything we were supposed to do and better, as we moved in, White folks moved out,” she told the moderator, adding, “They were afraid of what our families represented.

    She gave a different perspective in her memoir. Cashill points out that in her memoir Michelle stated that she and her brother had problems in school dealing with the class chaos and fights that lower class blacks brought to their schools. As a result, Michelle and her brother—with the prompting of their parents—moved from school to school in search of a peaceful environment to learn in. Michelle and her brother had more in common than she cared to admit with the ethnic whites who fled black neighborhoods.

  3. Sometimes y’all back NYC/NJ/PA way make the Left Coast seem mild in comparison. A low bar to be sure … (but I’ll raise you a Maxine Waters)

  4. I find it interesting that there’s been a noticeable decline in crime rates on his watch.

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