There's good reason for segregation. Just look at the neighborhoods that are black and hispanic. They're ugly shithole war-zones, for the most part. After the white flight that followed the exposure of "redlining" in the late '70s, some lovely livable 'hoods went to shit, for example, Marquette Park and Gage Park, near where I lived until 1971.
The working-class Mexican folks of Brighton Park, where I lived when it was Polish/Irish/Lithuanian, were doing well at keeping up their properties and raising their kids and being neighborly the last time I visited (around 2016), but eventually the gangsters (Two-Sixers, I think, at war with the Latin Kings) moved in and began terrorizing everyone. The church and the neighborhood association are doing valiant work trying to keep positive and keep the 'hood a good place to raise a family, but it appears to be a losing battle.
It breaks my heart to see hard-working Mexican families terrorized by shitheels in my old neighborhood.
There's good reason for segregation. Just look at the neighborhoods that are black and hispanic. They're ugly shithole war-zones, for the most part. After the white flight that followed the exposure of "redlining" in the late '70s, some lovely livable 'hoods went to shit, for example, Marquette Park and Gage Park, near where I lived until 1971.
The working-class Mexican folks of Brighton Park, where I lived when it was Polish/Irish/Lithuanian, were doing well at keeping up their properties and raising their kids and being neighborly the last time I visited (around 2016), but eventually the gangsters (Two-Sixers, I think, at war with the Latin Kings) moved in and began terrorizing everyone. The church and the neighborhood association are doing valiant work trying to keep positive and keep the 'hood a good place to raise a family, but it appears to be a losing battle.
It breaks my heart to see hard-working Mexican families terrorized by shitheels in my old neighborhood.
I didn't know about racial covenants.
Thanks for the info.
they should band together and kill all the gangsters. door to door until it's done.
They should, but vigilantism isn't exactly encouraged in Chicago.
can't arrest everyone