recently wrote an article about what it was like for elderly white citizens, but particularly women, to be left behind in a formerly all-white neighborhood that had turned predominately black by 1980. In short, the experience was harrowing. It included harassment, burglary, robbery, home invasion, physical assault, and sexual violence. Most on the Left would prefer to forget about that saga. They prefer to remember an image of Martin Luther King Jr. walking arm-in-arm with fellow protesters through the streets of Selma as emblematic of the period.
White flight according to Michelle Obama
