This image was attached with an article by The Chicagoist entitled Chicago Still the Most Segregated U.S. City. The 28% of whites maintain the majority of the north side and the suburbs of Chicago, while the black population (35%) are mostly found on the south and west sides.
When Mayor Daley was fighting for the 2016 Olympics, he said "Out of our diversity comes our city's greatest strength" (Chicago Reader). Unfortunately, diversity turns into segregation when the abundant amounts of races in a city are separated by community borders. The disruption of borders such of these can lead to extreme situations (like the race riots of 1919 in Chicago, started when an Irish man killed a black boy named Eugene Williams because he swam past his "racial boundary" into the Twenty-ninth street beach). Diversity, in many ways, is our weakness.
This constant tension between races and neighborhoods within our city creates many problems for Chicago. The disconnection and aversion from neighborhoods within a city creates discrimination against individuals, unequal treatment, and significant economic differences.
Why do you think Chicago is such a segregated city? Do you think segregation is a choice, or is it forced upon the citizens of Chicago? How would desegregating Chicago have a positive affect on the city?
"As we all know, Chicago is the most segregated city in the United States of America"
ReplyDeleteNo I do not know that. The article you linked to is two years old, and is contradicted by this study.
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_66.htm
Read the entire report closely and see that Table 4 Clearly shows that Milwaukee and Detroit (as metro areas) have higher dissimilarity scores than Chicago, while Table 5 shows that Detroit also has a higher isolation score.
I would recommend you look over your statistics before you attack my claim and research--both of which I have been working on for over a month. Table 4 and 5 clearly state in the article you linked that their information comes from the year 2010. This dates your argument to be two years old and no longer current or relevent. This is an article from the Huffington Post that was published at the very end of January, 2012, and uses the article you linked as supporting evidence for its claims.
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Chicago is currently ranked the most segregated city in the nation. Its an interesting topic, and I recommend you read more about it before you start to act like an expert in the field when you can't even find accurate information to support your claim.
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