The Slaughter of Cities by E. Michael Jones

We need to build around this fact of human nature, because we can't plow it through. I'm a little older, now, and see that it's not going away. When I was younger, I was shocked by the attitudes of older members of my family towards out-groups. A fortiori, integration in Detroit was going to be eventful.įurthermore, a lot of people throughout the world like to live next to those who are like themselves. The Malays and Chinese of Malaysia have had plenty of scuffles, too, and they've been around each other for a long time, as well. Yugoslavia broke up due to such friction, and those ethnic groups have been in contact with each other for centuries.

There was a sharp increase in crime caused by the friction of disparate groups suddenly coming in close contact with each other (Devil's Night and so forth). Why?ĭrive a few hours south from the (gradually but painfully resurging) south side of Chicago to southern Illinois and you'll find predominantly white towns that have been similarly devastated by the rural economy and the decline of small-scale midwestern manufacturing jobs, and methamphetamine.Īlso: you're not a little concerned that the 'book that changed your way of thinking' about urban decay was written by a guy that has a whole section on the ADL's website, who has written of a 'Jewish takeover of American culture'? The attending decline in property values and upkeep were entirely predictable.Īgain: we have a situation clearly explainable through economics, and you seem intent on injecting race into it. Moreover, upon leaving the white Irish Catholic and Polish enclaves, mortgage lending moved with them, leaving the neighborhoods to be filled with residents who were systematically denied ownership of their own homes. The 'control' they lost was 'the ability not to live next to ethnic minorities other than their own'. They left them as a reaction to integration and the beginning of the end of redlining policies. 'The largely Catholic ethnics' (I'm a Catholic of Irish and Eastern European descent) were not 'driven out' of their neighborhoods.

The Slaughter of Cities by E. Michael Jones