The issue isn’t that the white folks moving back there are evil, but that many of them probably preach to other Americans how enlightened and cool they are.

Now you’re just throwing bombs.

Nope, I’d shoot them before they ever made it through the entrance. Yup, grew up hunting and shooting and regularly hunt wild pig on my friend’s ranch twenty miles south of the city.

No, in general I feel good about moving the the east side although I’m aware that I am part of a problem without a simple solution.

Hillbillies, yes. I’m sure the folks up holler in Southeastern Ohio aren’t exactly welcome in Over the Rhine. We should never lose site of class in discussions of race, nor race in discussions of class.

I think that’s true to a large extent. However, I think the law of unintended consequences can be far more destructive than urban planning per se. For example, when Bill Clinton left the Presidency and moved his offices to Harlem, he likely wasn’t aware that fifteen years later the black population of Harlem would be…

Yes, every medium to large city in the US now has an “Over the Rhine” they like to trumpet as a testament to their progressive values.

The problem with the Hurricane Katrina aftermath (rent prices sky high, changing racial composition of the city, etc) is that many of people propagating the institutionalized racism in New Orleans are those with the best of intentions.