Suburban growth, government policies, racism led to 'white flight' in Newark

Many view the 1967 riots, alternatively called a rebellion, in Newark as the city’s low point, prompting whites to flee in droves for the neighboring suburbs. But the phenomenon called white flight started much earlier and the reasons behind it were more numerous and complex than simple racism.

[@brucelee5576]

Move out “ White Flight “ Move in “ Gentrification “ You can’t win !

[@DontDrinkthatstuff]

That's the point. It's meant to attack white people.

[@JohnSmith-ct5jd]

Exactly. No matter what, it is always white peoples' fault.

[@cjasewell]

That's your takeaway? Whites are the victims?

[@moniesincere5083]

The crime has to decrease in Newark first!

[@doubleAAbatteries689]

Funny how the Jews left first

[@jeanbenoit6480]

Whenever they preach about all this cosmopolitan nonsense it’s for the non-Jew and not meant for themselves. They thrive in cosmopolitan messes but are in deep trouble in Ethno-States because they can’t have their way.

[@spencershears6497]

We are not stupid. We are quick to cut our losses and move on.

[@spencershears6497]

@Operation Paperclip Three races: Caucasoid, Negroid and Asiatic. PERIOD. What you make of that is up to you.

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

Oyyy Veeey ~ from 4Chan desu.

[@elchango6183]

catholics also left! let not forget...

[@chess1458]

NOBODY wants to live around ignorance amd chaos

[@buildingbuildercip8292]

As a Mexican… I’ve seen some of my family members and many of my friends that have moved into black neighborhoods and battle them to get them out. They just don’t get along with them. Places like Long Beach and parts of South Cebtral LA. One in particular is Muscoy in San Bernardino CA. it used to be black…Not no more.

[@vcab6875]

North east Hispanic tend to come from the Caribbean and tend to have some black blood.

[@Robert-ur8mi]

@@vcab6875not all of us have black blood

[@vcab6875]

@@Robert-ur8mi Agreed. Black blood concentration is in Caribbean basin and Brasil.

[@Anthony-qu7qd]

It angers me to even hear someone say it was a "rebellion" it was a riot, a terrorization of non black people.

[@jaynordiaz4609]

the way you define things depends on where you sit at the table... lets not act like the power structure in Newark at the time was not terrorizing minorities.

[@dh4hdvsg588]

It was a pogrom

[@Manuelbacon40]

@D Gh annnd now its a shit hole...along with baltimore ,detroit, st louis with your "rebellions"

[@u.m.a.8119]

Therefore stay in your safe space Fred. Perhaps it’s a boring suburban bubble. 🧐 Newark is for the strong! 🤓

[@u.m.a.8119]

Of course you will see it as a riot. OF COURSE YOU WILL. But it was a rebellion due to systemic racism, inequity and murder. Do your homework or shut it. 🤓 😘

[@michaelesposito239]

It's only getting worse

[@u.m.a.8119]

😂😂😂 Thank God you’re WRONG! 🤓

[@NoahBodze]

@@u.m.a.8119 Why do you feral subhumans follow us around? You know that when you prove you can’t build anything and come to our neighborhoods, you admit we’re superior, right?

[@u.m.a.8119]

@@NoahBodze God bless your heart, you poor, poor soul. You have so much hate. Hope it all goes well for you so you won’t be such an angry and miserable person. 😘

[@DontDrinkthatstuff]

​@@u.m.a.8119 Cope

[@richardthayer982]

If I am a rich white person that decided not to have kids until I can get a business going why do I have to help a single black mom who has five kids and probably will never get ahead due to bad choices?Also if black people do not like our way of life only the reward of it why should we change our way of life?You would never suggest that black people need to change....its only us.

[@fromnytomd]

Because your wealth is directly attributable to policies and practices (I.e., slavery, redlining, predatory mortgage practices, etc.) that have disenfranchised people of color.

[@markcuckenberg7869]

@@fromnytomd How pathetic. Slavery ended around 150 years ago and it still affects blacks today but Europeans somehow recovered from heavy wars and communism which stripped their ancestors of all their property just a few decades ago. If recovery was so hard Germany would never pick itself up after most of Berlin was bombed and millions of their people were killed.

[@fromnytomd]

@Mark Cuckenberg - if Europeans have “recovered,” then why do they still rely on modern day crutches and privileges to get ahead? These privileges include, but are not limited to, (1) legacy and special admissions to selective universities, (2) benefitting disproportionately from welfare, (3) benefitting disproportionately from corporate subsidies/welfare (I.e., land grants, payments to farmers), (4) benefitting from better funded public schools - which is directly tied to living in privileged communities that institutionally exclude people of color... and on and on and on. I know it’s easier to think whites are where they are because of discipline and work ethic... and thinking otherwise makes you uncomfortable... but the truth is the truth. Do some reading before making such unsupported generalizations about an entire group of people. #chandlerdropsmic!

[@markcuckenberg7869]

@@fromnytomd Why would it be shocking for the dominating race which founded the country and made a wast majority of contributions to have "privileges". You are free to live in Africa where there is no "white privilege" and you are free to start your own communities and your own schools. I mean you had 150 years to do so. You can have your own country inside US and call it WAKANDA but every city your people have conquered like Detroit was utterly destroyed by you people.

[@fromnytomd]

@Mark Cuckenberg - just what I thought. You’re an ignorant dumb racist. I’m done with this conversation.

[@petenrita]

Crime was left off the list

[@moniesincere5083]

It was some black families that moved too!! I know a few!!

[@damirbabic8168]

we have been at war for a very long time, but only one side has really been fighting it

[@stuartlee6622]

CRIME!!!!!!!!!

[@stuartlee6622]

Newark is totally finished. Forever. Like Kinshasa

[@spencershears6497]

Camden. Or Mogadishu.

[@yamahantx7005]

As a canadian working in NJ, I was shocked after doing a job at the Newark NJIT campus. Get off the train, nearly everyone is black. Step foot onto campus, very few blacks. The contrast was startling. I couldn't help wondering what kinds of conversations these foreign students(lots of asians there) are having with their families back home. "So, how's school? How's the city?" Imagine being a parent who spent some serious coin for your kid to go abroad, only to find out you sent them to a city where the murder rate is 5x the national average.

[@saralopez3335]

@@yamahantx7005 omg what a tragedy, you saw a lot of black people, please someone call the police.

[@yamahantx7005]

@@saralopez3335 Skin color isn't the surprising part. It's the segregation.

[@u.m.a.8119]

Sara...Brick City hating idiots will always have their shitty, dumb 2 cent comments!

[@adamwalker2377]

2:48 why didn't the black people take over the businesses? If the shutdown left a need, then there was a market for it.

[@DJY30DSmoove]

How in the world were black people going to start big business if they were hardly able to get basic little loans? Black people were free’d with nothing to their names while white people already had land and money. Starting from the bottom is a real thing

[@adamwalker2377]

@@DJY30DSmoove 150 years ago, sure.

[@DJY30DSmoove]

@@adamwalker2377 if your in a race and everyone else started at the middle point, but you were the one that started at the starting point it’s gonna take you a long time to catch up no? Especially if there are obstacles in your way trying to stop you from catching up.

[@adamwalker2377]

@@DJY30DSmoove less than 150 years for sure. How is the economy in Africa doing where blacks were both slaves and slave owners?

[@214dude2]

Have you ever heard of redlining? That was a common practice that denied black people loans. It’s very difficult to create a business without a loan. White people never had anything like that done to them for decades.

[@selfishcapitalist3523]

Blacks should fund their own colleges.

[@AdrianDeVore]

African-Americans have already started their own colleges and they are called HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities).

[@selfishcapitalist3523]

@@AdrianDeVore Good

[@Toxicashellmonsanto]

What a load of crap. People don't want to live with strangers, that is the bottom line. Quit pushing the race card.

[@malizee2264]

All friends begin as strangers…

[@Hborn]

How was 17th then

[@truthserum6808]

There’s no such thing as “the race card”. These are facts. Deal with it.

[@Machia52612]

@@truthserum6808 There is very much a thing as the “race card”. It’s destructive and a step backwards.

[@stuartlee6622]

Newark = Kinshasa.

[@RTD3]

But it was/is the South that is racist. 😂🤣😂🤣

[@tanyapeterson8489]

well i'm still here since 1959! we all have issues but you have to have a place to live! so i'm content! here in newark nj

[@feliciajenkins5041]

It's turning again

[@johnalexander7369]

lol guess why they left 😂

[@TheFABIOCOOL]

Wherever they step foot, it's always the same result

[@rcbrothers1000]

Same happened here in Pomona CA

[@bobbobbington3615]

Lets compare a black neighborhood to a white neighborhood... then, after compiling stats, pictures, etc, let people chose which one they prefer... then the big reveal of which neighborhood is which.

[@Nick0wnsz]

I am a communist but a fixing sidewalks and having community patrol was not the source of gang rape and murder

[@minnowpd]

Route 21 out of Newark up the Passaic River became a race track. The noise in the valley was a nightmare. Rich areas got sound walls.

[@DontDrinkthatstuff]

*White areas

[@Comm0ut]

If you aren't rich cities suck. They were at best a transitional bridge to suburban migration because suburban life is better than urban, especially in the many rather nice suburban areas of the 1960s. Flight is right, EVERY TIME. You never make a mistake by leaving and usually gain immensely. PEOPLE LEAVE BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN. Pretending it won't happen doesn't help. Even a renewed Newark is still Newark and urban areas cycle fairly quickly. The next recession won't help.

[@kanglongshankz3313]

not happening chief sorry

[@Hborn]

Was any heroin and weed then

[@Machia52612]

Born and raised in the Vailsburg section of Newark. Entire family and friends lived there too. Greed killed Newark and the Blacks got screwed.

[@feliciajenkins5041]

All of this💯

[@stuartlee6622]

All because of what Abraham Lincoln did

[@eriknervik9003]

I actually think the Pogrom in 1967 is why whites left.

[@u.m.a.8119]

I arrived to Newark from Lima, Peru when I was one. I had a great and fun childhood. I had friends of all nationalities and cultures. Some are still friends to this day. Grew up there through the 70s, 80s and after moving to NYC in 2001 due to work, I am so very excited my fiancé and I are moving back and buying a home in Newark. Such amazing growth in investments of businesses, and real estate now! It’s always still been “home” away from home since my parents and sister never left. Growing up in Newark many have no choice but to develop thick skin, and if you have the right people to nurture and educate, boy does one become resilient and learn to persevere to follow and fulfill dreams! What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger! The weak can leave or stay away! Many great people come out of this beautiful city! Some will always talk 💩about Newark until their faces are blue (usually the racist morons with a chip on their shoulder) but Newark has always been a diamond in the rough and boy is it starting to shine brightly. ! I will always love my beloved Brick City! ♥️🙏🏽♥️ Whoever says otherwise about true positive growth happening in Newark today is ignorant on facts and research. Or racist. 🤓

[@DrLesiaThePreachasDiviNation]

👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽

[@malizee2264]

It’s funny how white people say it’s ok for them to move where ever they want, but blacks should stay to make things better… ummmmm…ok. Wonderful video thank you!

[@NoahBodze]

You get to sit in the places you destroy. They move to other places so you can’t destroy those places.

[@iwuvpiesgaming9164]

@@NoahBodze you say you destroy but you don’t know her..

[@self-imp1189]

@@NoahBodze If they wanna migrate to other places, they are free to do so, in Amuhrica! It´s a melting pot after all, but dont attempt that melting pot stuff in other countries with no previous melting pot record or there´ll be problems

[@truthserum6808]

@@NoahBodze The original residents “destroyed” the neighborhoods by disinvestment, leaving houses abandoned and setting fires for insurance money. And this little thing called “redlining”. So cut the B.S., pick up a book and learn something. I know you dropped out in 5th grade but there is still hope for you to get out the ignorant and uneducated state you are in.

[@NoahBodze]

@@truthserum6808 You people are so goddamned stupid and violent that they left. Look at you stupid and violent savages now and tell me you don’t understand Jim Crow, you insolent subhuman.

[@atom5294]

The White flight about to happen in Chicago