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Is Milwaukee a good place to live?
Survey finds deep racial disparities in answers

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Posted By: MDConservative, 6/17/2021 12:56:50 PM

Anne Blom has called Milwaukee home for more than 40 years. She raised three children in a house she has owned for decades in Washington Heights, a neighborhood full of shade, wide streets and well-kept lawns. On a scale of 1 to 10, she’d rate the city a 9. “We love what the city has to offer,” she said. But Blom, who is white, acknowledges that Milwaukee doesn’t provide everyone with the same opportunities. She recalled an instance years ago when a Black friend house sat for her. When he was outside the home one day, a passerby questioned his presence there.

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I grew up in this city. I know it fairly well still. The mayor, in office since 2004, was not surprised at the "usual" findings. After nearly 17 years...what hath his leadership wrought? His city suffers shrinking population, and it's not "white flight". Has been for a decade, with fewer residents now than 1960. It is minority majority, only 35% "white alone" and growing very old. Where's the white power structure holding down minorities? They're mostly dead and their boomer kids in the suburbs aging. This city is getting what it votes for...and expects the state and Feds to send more money to support its dysfuntion. It's not Baltimore yet, but trying.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: SALady 6/17/2021 1:11:30 PM (No. 818597)
In middle-class white neighborhoods, people take pride in taking care of their homes. They respect their neighbors and look out for each other. They do not allow drugs, gangs, and other negative and evil things into their neighborhoods without a huge fight. In so many minority neighborhoods, the exact opposite is true. They let their homes get run down and dilapidated. Violence and destruction is common among neighbors. Drugs and gangs run rampant, with all the evil things that would be expected from those types of things. So they cry "racism" for the state of their neighborhoods instead of realizing that they bring this on themselves. Black lives should matter first and foremost in their own neighborhoods, but there is no money in it for the BLM leadership in actually addressing these real issues that effect the strong majority of blacks and other minorities.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: jalo1951 6/17/2021 1:17:38 PM (No. 818600)
Frankly, I don't think it's a good idea to live in any large city.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Newtsche 6/17/2021 1:35:27 PM (No. 818613)
Several years ago Wisconsin grotesquely liberalized its welfare policies and Chicago area blacks flooded the state. Instant dystopia.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Geoman 6/17/2021 1:46:02 PM (No. 818624)
FTA: "She raised three children in a house she has owned for decades in Washington Heights, a neighborhood full of shade, wide streets and well-kept lawns." If the house-sitter had been a snow white albino, she may have been questioned by other long term residents of the neighborhood but in the "news" of 2021, it must be racism; yet another perpetration by "the man" to hold the black man down.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 6/17/2021 1:48:21 PM (No. 818625)
Everyone has the same opportunities, hard fact. Many folks do not take advantage of their opportunities, not getting an education, not obeying laws and staying out of jail, not working hard, and THOSE behaviors cause poor outcomes, even though their opportunities were equal. Cultural norms in many black households cause them to reject behaviors which would benefit them in their lives. THAT is the root problem. Old saying: "You can lead a horse to water, you can't make him drink." You can provide opportunities for people, you can't make people take advantage of them. Not my problem. I took advantage of my opportunities, had great outcomes.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: skacmar 6/17/2021 2:09:37 PM (No. 818641)
If you live in neighborhood long enough, you know who lives there or is in the neighborhood on a regular basis. When a stranger appears, it is normal to question why they are there. They may take offense, but that is why some neighborhoods stay nice, and some don't. They look out for each other. When people ignore what is going on in their neighborhood, that is when you get crime and a run down, crime ridden city. So remember, just because someone might question why a stranger is in your yard (any you are not there), they may not be being racist, they are being good neighbors watching out for you.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: skacmar 6/17/2021 2:12:56 PM (No. 818645)
People who live in the inner city apparently do not understand the concept of looking out for their neighbors. They turn a blind eye to what is going on around them, even if they thing it is wrong. This leads to crime and run down neighborhoods. Then they can't understand how it got that way. It is a cultural thing that non city people have a difficult time understanding.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: J-Dog 6/17/2021 2:18:28 PM (No. 818649)
I grew up in that neighborhood. At one time it was a very nice place to live, but became worse and worse as the “inner city” spread west. Milwaukee has been run by liberals and actual socialists from the turn of the twentieth century to now and nothing has changed for the Blacks.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Gruntmedic 6/17/2021 2:27:10 PM (No. 818661)
I think Chicago sent a lot of black's there because Wisconsin had higher welfare payments. Same thing happened in the south they bought bus tickets to northern states
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Reply 10 - Posted by: itsonlyme 6/17/2021 3:08:08 PM (No. 818704)
It is a sheethole
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Reply 11 - Posted by: lftrn97 6/17/2021 3:24:05 PM (No. 818714)
You mean everyone doesn't earn the same thing?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Faithfully 6/17/2021 3:48:45 PM (No. 818738)
When residents move out of the area and rent out their property, the neighbourhood declines.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: AltaD 6/17/2021 4:53:43 PM (No. 818804)
FTA: So many Blacks that weren't informed, couldn’t get the shot." How could anyone not know their state or city's vaccination rules? They were advertised constantly on TV, radio, internet. Also, the only reasons people were denied the vaccine in the early months were if they didn't meet the age requirement or they were not frontline essential workers. It wasn't racism.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Pault135 6/17/2021 5:40:50 PM (No. 818847)
In my middle class, mixed neighborhood in South Carolina my Black neighbors will call the police in a New York minute when any unfamiliar face appears in the neighborhood, either Black or White. They want to keep their (our) neighborhood liveable.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: doctorfixit 6/18/2021 1:49:31 AM (No. 819175)
Sell Minnesota to Canada. They're much better suited to each other.
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