Let's Call A Spade, A Spade

Watching the oft-repeated American scene in Ferguson, a town, like Crown Heights, that went Black in the wake of white flight. The older whites who are left are on the side of the (white) "these people are animals" police. Recently, however, there has been an influx of "low level hipsters" (to quote the highly intelligent, not-racist white taxi driver interviewed by Chris Hayes in his excellent reporting last night) to the area, people "committed to diversity," he said. The area has "craft beer.....a farmer's market....." etc. Sound familiar? I keep thinking back to the gentleman I heard at a CB9 meeting some months ago, who had been gentrified out of several neighborhoods in several cities. "These people don't share, they dominate," he warned. Let's see how "committed to diversity" we white people are in places like Ferguson and Crown Heights; there must be others. Are Ferguson and Crown Heights in the first stages eventual total white domination, or not? I'll be honest, I have only read the headline for this article, "America Is Not For Black People." But it's a helluva start.