Long accused of racism and White flight, the Ethnic Americans driven from their homes and neighborhoods--the author included--finally get the chance to tell their side of the story.
The reason the experts didn\'t ask, I discovered, is that they were afraid of what they might learn..
In researching this project, I found myself repeatedly stunned by the failure of self-described experts on White Flight to ask those accused of fleeing why it was they fled.
When your home gets broken into for the second time, that\'s untenable.
When I asked what he meant by untenable, he answered, When your mother gets mugged for the second time, that\'s untenable.
He searched a minute for the right set of words, and then simply said, It became untenable. --Brent Bozell III, founder and president of the Media Research Center I asked one lifelong friend, a rare Democrat among the displaced, why he and his widowed mother finally left our block in the early 1970s, twenty years after the first African-American families moved in.
A necessary and overdue corrective.
A startlingly honest and poignant look at \'White flight\' from the White perspective.
Long accused of racism and White flight, the Ethnic Americans driven from their homes and neighborhoods--the author included--finally get the chance to tell their side of the story
