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For anyone that doesn't have context on white flight, what is white?
It's the sociological occurrence of what happens in communities when black people sort of start making their way up socioeconomically and can buy homes or rent homes in neighborhoods that are predominantly white. So instead of uh white people accepting it, they sell their homes on mass. There's a sort of undercurrent of we better get out because these black families coming in are going to ruin the neighborhood and bring down property values. So, you better sell now and go go further south into the southern suburbs.
And so, when you're young, you you kind of know something is going on. You know, it's not like we were sitting around the kitchen table talking about white flight. But what you do know and you take in as a child is like these people are running from us. You know, it's like my dad who is this, you know, amazingly kind and generous person who would would have been good for a lot of these people's kids, these white folks kids to get to know and be around us who turned out to be who we were and we were always going to be that. You're running for us.
Well, our feeling was like, well, how stupid is racism and how stupid are you for not really looking and getting to know? So, so race to me and in my household was just a dumb manifestation of ignorant people, but we were taught to keep moving through.