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Miscellaneous See other Miscellaneous Articles Title: Austin's the Only Fast Growing City in the Country Losing African-Americans The overall Austin population exploded between 2000 and 2010, growing by more than 20 percent. But a University of Texas study [PDF] finds that Austin was the only U.S. city experiencing double-digit population growth that saw its African-American population not keep pace, but actually decline. "Among the ten fastest growing major cities in the United States, Austin stood out in one crucial respect: it was the only such city that suffered a net loss in its African- American population," says study author Dr. Eric Tang. "Indeed, between 2000 and 2010, Austin was a statistical outlier; it was the only major city in the United States to experience a double-digit rate of general population growth coincident with African-American population decline." Some of the reasons for the decline are believed to be the gentrification of central east Austin in recent decades, leading to rising property values and property taxes, an additional factors like public education, employment and high-profile incidents involving Austin Police. Tang tells Texas Standard host David Brown that what’s most troubling about this story is how it doesn't square with Austin’s reputation as a tolerant, liberal city. "It is the history of segregation of the African-American community in Austin, followed by an intense period of gentrification of the neighborhoods to which they were segregated," Tang says. "In 1928 the City of Austin created what it called the Negro district just east of downtown. The gateway today is Franklin Barbecue for those people familiar with Austin. The city effectively pushed 80 percent of the black population – which before 1928 lived all over Austin – into this segregated district within two years. Fast forward to 1990s, early 2000s – that same area became prime real estate for developers for new development." Many African-Americans have moved out of Austin entirely, to adjacent cities. Tang says that demands a closer look at issues other than gentrification, including public education, policing and the job market. "In all three areas what we believe is that African-Americans face persistent inequalities," Tang said. "In the Austin Independent School District, many parents I have talked to anecdotally in our research have … argued that their grandchildren and children are receiving an inferior education to what they got in the post-Civil Rights years." Tang added that African-Americans have a troubled history with the Austin Police Department. "In 2004, the NAACP filed a civil rights complaint for excessive use of force against African-Americans which led to a Department of Justice investigation. That investigation coincided with that decade in which we lost so much of our black population in Austin." Poster Comment: "Suffered" a loss off kneegrows? Really?? I fail to see the problem.....African Americans declining and property values are giraffe pussy high...who would of thunk it...... Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 15.
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We've more than compensated with a beaner explosion here.
Solution to beaner problem is snow. They dont care for it. We now have one beaner female. What the other half is I dont know. Half dozen or so Africans. The rest are white trash, red neck, wood hick, hill billies and we is all cuzins.
San Jose never had a big black population. But as much as blacks complain about white racism they do need whites to protect them from Asians and Mexicans. Mexicans in California kill black people for sport. Asians buy property, run the tenants out while they spray the apartments with a cheap coat of paint. Next month the entire building is rented out to Vietnamese.
At the rate we're going, we'll soon be what a cop-friend called "a nation of mutts."
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