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Politics : President Barack Obama

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To: John Vosilla who wrote (100754)	9/4/2011 5:16:42 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) of 149317

'Maybe its very difficult for people to overcome their racial prejudices. Maybe its locked in genetically' It goes way beyond racial to me..language, culture ect..... If anything it has gone the other way with the latest wave of Latino immigrants especially which I don't think is good for the country because the numbers are staggering. The black and caribbean communities also tend to stay isolated. All including whites tend to buy in hoods they are comfortable even today. In Florida the 'code' speak I here from ethnic groups on what they are looking for is not something any realtor could ever admit too.. Seemed to me Asians were much more immersed in Seattle but that might be because they are much more educated and the dominant minority community in town? Asians usually integrate much faster than other ethnic groups. What takes two generations for most ethnic groups is done in one by Asians. What Seattle has done is push the integration of neighborhoods that were predominately black......by directing more services to those neighborhoods; by directing capital investment to those neighborhoods........and then when things started to improve, pushing for mixed housing development in those neighborhoods. For an example, Rainier Valley was one of the predominately black neighborhoods of Seattle. Back in the 90s, they made available low interest loans to both home and commercial owners in the area to improve their properties. The city spent money fixing up streets and sidewalks. The first light rail line in Seattle was routed through RV.....which brought more money to the neighborhood and provided easier access to jobs by residents. Just before the recent recession developers were encouraged to develop mixed income housing at rail stops. Some projects made it into the ground before the recession hit and now are occupied. The recent census showed............ I don't remember the exact numbers..........that the percentage of residents who were white in RV grew over the decade. The overall population of the neighborhood also grew. SF has taken similar steps with its poor neighborhoods.......same with Portland. Its a very effective way to reduce segregation. Remember.......poor neighborhoods typically get screwed by the city........they usually get less of everything. When the city reverses that trend, the neighborhoods tend to improve. Make no mistake.......its not an easy process......and the electorate has to be fairly enlightened to get on board.

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