Gentrification’s insidious violence: The truth about American cities

[AverageJoe90]

7. Not to mention that his claim that, "No one is safer in communities of color than white folks.",

is, unfortunately, isn't all that accurate, simply because many of these neighborhoods are quite poor and rundown, and all the problems that come with that(see: Southeast L.A., pretty much all of Detroit, etc.).....but then again, I wouldn't want to be stuck in a *white* neighborhood with those problems, either.

I happen to live in a neighborhood that just happens to have a significant portion of African-Americans, and some Latinos, and we are definitely a safe place. But we're also a pretty well-off neighborhood, in which the average home price is somewhere in the 250-300k range.

My point is, it's poverty that makes much of the problem, even if it IS also true that the danger of poorer communities of any ethnicity are often overblown by the MSM and talk radio(which is definitely true).