The Role of Blacks in The Decline of The US Midwest and Manufacturing

ByPrimary Researcher

Executive Summary

  • In nearly all media, blacks are framed as the victims of the decline of manufacturing in the Midwest.
  • This article proposes a different explanation that has to do with blacks themselves.

Introduction

This article will use several important graphics to counter the generally accepted explanation that blacks have nothing to do with the US Midwest’s decline and manufacturing in the Midwest. After reviewing the evidence, you may agree that it is clear this explanation has not been provided due to people censoring themselves, as the conclusion is not politically correct.

The Standard Explanation for The Decline of Detroit and Other Midwestern Cities

Videos like this will never bring up the fact that what happened in Detroit happened in every city in the US where blacks have become predominant. A significant limitation in the analysis of what has led to the decline of so many cities where blacks have become predominant is that every city is treated as if it is in isolation from other towns. This same issue applies to the overall Midwest.

This “isolated analysis” of cities in the US Midwest is found at the beginning of the above video. Here is the quote from the 0:28 mark in the video.

Most cities in the Rust Belt have experienced a population decline, including Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, St Louis. All of these have experienced major population losses.

City Example #1: Buffalo

All of these cities also developed large black populations. For example, Buffalo, NY, is not generally thought of as having a large black population — however, look at the following graphic showing demographic changes.

In 1940, Buffalo was 96.8% white, with only 3.1% of the population being black. However, by 2023, non-Hispanic whites make up only 44.7% of the population and 33.3% black. There is no city in the country where 1/3 of the population is black, which is also considered a desirable city. 

The video also makes the point that American car manufacturers became less dominant with the arrival of Japanese cars and other changes to the automotive industry in the US. However, this explanation misrepresents when car companies began moving factories out of the city of Detroit — which was decades before the Japanese cars penetrated the US market — which was in the 1970s. Observe the following graphic.

City Example #2: Detroit

The peak of Detroit’s population was in 1950. This was the pinnacle of the success of the US car industry. And the groups that primarily left — significantly decreasing Detroit’s population were white. Both car manufacturers and the population moved out of Detroit before the significant changes to the car companies and foreign competition began. 

In 2023, Detroit is roughly 80% black. The long-term pattern in all the Midwest cities is for the population to decline, primarily due to white flight, and then for the town to be left with a substantial black population. Without a sufficient white population or whites vastly outnumbering blacks, no history of any town flourishing exists.

In 1967, the black riots promoted even more whites to leave, as is explained in the quote from the article The Effect of The Decline of Manufacturing on the Black Middle Class.

In the aftermath of Detroit’s polarizing 1967 riots, the steady stream of white residents who were already leaving the city turned into a torrent. Yet many middle-class blacks opted to stay behind. Most of the suburbs remained off limits to African-Americans; what’s more, the 1973 election of Detroit’s first black mayor, Coleman Young — himself a former Ford line worker — seemed like cause for renewed optimism. But in the 1980s, as crime rates soared, the quality of schools and services plummeted and the number of crack houses multiplied, more and more middle-class blacks abandoned the city for the suburbs, or in some cases, left the Detroit area altogether.

Why? Well — most of the whites left, and Detroit became increasingly managed by blacks. Everything listed is the inevitable outcome of when blacks are not allowed to benefit from a white-run and white predominant society, and when they are predominant.

This quote describes what Coleman Young told white residents of Detroit after he was elected.

Coleman Young started the decline of the city of Detroit. He drew the line and told white people this is a black city now. He was the reason people and businesses left Detroit. The man at the end of this video has his point of view, those of us whose families grew up in the city in the early 1900’s until the riots in the 60’s have a different point of view.

Coleman Young did not seem to realize that the blacks had no possible way of maintaining what whites had built. After white flight, blacks then complained that they were “racially isolated.” And that it was racism, not blacks, that ruined Detroit.

The Degradation of Predominantly Black and Black Managed Schools as an Example of What Happens to Black Cities

This is what happens to schools in black cities. 

At the 18-minute point in this video, it explains that around 50% of people in Detroit are functionally illiterate. This same issue applies to other black cities. See this quote from the article St. Louis NAACP files civil rights complaint over low literacy rates among Black students.

A 2022 report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows white students scoring 34 points higher in reading than Black students. That performance gap is largely unchanged from more than 20 years ago, amounting to 33 points in 1998.

This data is unacceptable to Adolphus M. Pruitt, president of the St. Louis chapter of the NAACP. He wants the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to take a close look at the longstanding problem, which the NAACP calls a civil rights issue.

“We want them to mediate between us and all those school districts to say, ‘Hey, we need to look at how we’re educating children in the St Louis region, especially Black children,’” he said.

Even though the black areas of St. Louis have schools that are run by blacks, the NAACP, by calling it a civil rights issue, is blaming whites. 

However, even among blacks who can read, they continue to say ridiculous things, misrepresent history, and misrepresent and misunderstand math. However, literacy is simply not going to solve all the deep problems with Black cognition.

At the 19-minute mark in this video, Nolan Finley states that there’s nothing wrong with the children. The children can learn. Are you sure about that, Nolan? Because in every place where blacks are in the US, the schools are bad. And the higher the concentration of blacks, the worse the school is. The correlation is overwhelming. However, corruption makes it worse. At the 23-minute mark of the video, Nolan Finley points out that the school board is corrupt and is more concerned with family members securing jobs than with improving the educational experience for students. However, that is normal black behavior.

Black Students Deserve to Have White Administrators Running Their Schools?

Bentley seems to be presuming that the blacks who are in school in Detroit deserve to have the administrative capabilities of whites running that school. However, why is this true? At the 24-minute point in the video, the previous superintendent of Detroit Public Schools pointed out the total lack of professionalism among the school board and that the school board was inflating student enrollment numbers, which, of course, is a form of corruption. This is a strategy to secure additional funding for the school. And of course, being black, there was a complete lack of organization and professionalism.

Incredibly, it has not been figured out that blacks cannot manage anything. They are given opportunity after opportunity, and they continually demonstrate their incompetence and their corruption. The inability of blacks to run schools, run cities, is shown to a more minor degree by their failure to run schools. The Detroit school district faces a significant issue with corrupt contracts that often result in subpar services and products, ultimately benefiting those connected to the school district. Again, this is a ubiquitous feature of black management. Audits revealed widespread fraud in the Detroit school district, with individuals writing unauthorized checks to themselves for unrendered services. Only 5 of 193 schools had properly maintained accounting. The Detroit school board was found to have been orchestrating the corruption, often to the benefit of either school board members or their family and friends. In Detroit — and any other black run city for that matter — being on the school board is a license to steal.

See this quote from the following article From the Daily: Money mismanaged.

in 1999, when the state first took control, DPS had a stable budget, a $93 million surplus and 173,000 students. Currently, DPS has an enrollment of less than 50,000 and a budget deficit of approximately $350 million. The state’s use of public funds is highly questionable; millions of dollars have been used to renovate buildings that have been subsequently demolished, abandoned or sold at a price lower than the cost of repairs.

This is in 2015 dollars.

Of the nation’s 50 largest cities, Detroit has the most children living in extreme poverty, with, as of 2012, approximately 59 percent of Detroit children living in poverty. Considering that education is widely considered to be a means to escape poverty and access a better life, the decline of DPS effectively closes this door to many children.

Liberals made the mistake of assuming that eventually blacks would behave as if they were white. However, the Southerners had a much better understanding of black capabilities and black predilections.

Complete Black Incompetence on Display

The confidence described at the 27-minute point of this video is mind-boggling. However, this is normal and is representative of how blacks manage things. Why are black-run items continuing to receive resources? After it’s undeniable that all they do is mismanage them.

Ruining Other Less Black Schools by Moving to Get Away from Black Schools

The result of predominantly black schools and schools managed by blacks is that black parents seek to flee the schools in search of good schools. And what good schools mean is schools that have more white students and fewer black students. Therefore, after ruining their schools, the response of the blacks is to migrate to other schools that are less black, setting up the cycle for ruining those schools as well. No parents want their children to go to a predominantly black school, including black parents themselves. See this quote from the article Why Do Schools Keep Failing Black Kids?

Notice the headline presents the problem as if it is some great mystery.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2025 Kids Count Data Book, released last week, found that 9 in 10 Black eighth-graders are not proficient in math, and 85% of fourth-graders are not reading at grade level — the lowest proficiency rates of any racial group.

But the chronic struggles of Black students won’t improve, she says, without addressing systemic racial issues in K-12 public education, and tackling problems that are closely linked to poverty outside of the classroom.

The “racial issue” is that, invariably, regardless of the state or the school, the higher the percentage of blacks that go to that school, the worse the school. Notice these quotes from a teacher who has seen their school ruined by black enrollment.

I am a teacher at a small Catholic school, where I have taught for over 15 years. During that time I have seen a massive demographic shift in the student population.

The school is noticeably different now. The hallways are packed with black students, standing around and blocking everyone else’s passage, oblivious to what is going on around them. They yell rather than talk, in the hallways but also in class. Once in the classroom, they often continue talking throughout class, and have no shame about speaking over their teachers. Students of all races walk around with shirts untucked, collars unbuttoned, and shoes untied.

The topics of conversation among black students are often horribly inappropriate for any setting, let alone a classroom. Black students routinely use profanity and discuss sex. Once I was screening a film about Africa. A semi-clad black man appeared on screen. A middle school black girl loudly proclaimed “Mmm mmm mmm, I want to suck his dick!” A female coworker once wore a shirt that showed a bit of cleavage. In her first class of the day, some black boys talked about her breasts for the entire period, remarking on their size and how they would like to shove their faces into them. She was nervous about going to that class for the rest of the year, and began dressing very conservatively.

I had five or six extremely aggressive black students. They talked at full volume during class, and threatened any students who asked them to be quiet. Their conversations were often vulgar, and they loudly discussed the various sex acts they wanted to perform with (usually white) female students.

There were four white students in that class, and they sat together in a four-desk square in the middle of the room, surrounded by loud, angry black boys. It reminded me of so many white neighborhoods that have been swallowed up by blacks and were completely ruined by their new residents.

How can black students afford to attend a private, Catholic school with tuition now over ten thousand dollars? Often they do not have to pay. Many receive sports scholarships and grants far more generous than anything offered to white students. These costs are subsidized by families who pay full price. Some white students get assistance as well, but are usually required to volunteer at school functions. Black students in theory are supposed to do so as well, but many do not. Their parents almost never volunteer.

Increasingly, good students of any race are choosing to go elsewhere, and we are left with students of all races with learning disabilities or who do not care about school. This is a vicious cycle. As the number of black students increases, the number of students with strong academic backgrounds decreases, meaning a greater percentage of our freshman classes will be black. Our current freshman class is 50 percent black. To put it in perspective, there are more black students in the freshman class than graduated from the school during the five years from 2000 and 2005. This trend means that a once majority-white, cohesive community with a strong Catholic identity will become another black-dominated educational cesspool, supported by left-leaning donors who want to pat themselves on the back. It will no longer be a community with a common culture.

This assumes that the school will even stay open. More likely, as white families leave, so too will the low-cost maintenance services they provide, and the building will deteriorate. Scores on standardized tests will decline, making the school unattractive. Outside donors will stop giving. Local businesses will no longer want to hire our students, and will sever ties. Eventually, the school will become a money pit and will close. An abandoned school will blight the community, and property values will sink. What was once an anchor for the community will become an albatross.

And why?

So that a few well-meaning liberals could pat themselves on the back, and one man could win basketball championships. This is the price all over the country that Americans are paying for their delusions.

This is termed “niggerification.” And this is how liberals support the niggerification of schools. Blacks and liberals have a secret pact to ruin everything they can. Thus, liberals are the enemy of civilization and civilized outcomes.

I went to a bussed high school myself, and no white student should ever be forced to attend a high school that has blacks in it. The entire conversation around busing is all about how it can improve the lives of black students. But it says nothing about how it degrades the life of non-black students. A decade after I graduated, I returned to the high school to see that it had gone from 50% black to 100% black. I noticed that in almost all the classrooms, videos were playing. A large number of Blacks are entering and enrolling in schools. This causes the non-black students to flee.

Black Students Attacking a Teacher

What Black Run Schools Do to Degrade White Student Learning and Test Performance

Observe this quote from the article Zero Math Proficiency: The National Impact on Black Students.

The math proficiency struggles in Baltimore City schools reflect a widespread, nationwide crisis that disproportionately affects Black students. The 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress results showed that only 18% of Black fourth-grade students were proficient in math, compared to more than half of white students. For eighth graders, 13% of Black students were proficient, compared to 45% of white students.

One has to wonder how only 45% of eighth-grade white students can be proficient in math, because this number is far higher when whites attend a predominantly white school. Blacks run Baltimore schools. This illustrates why whites will always be poorly served by going to a black run school. A few people talk about this, but what happens if a white student, through circumstances, is forced to go to a predominantly black school?

What Later Happened to Deanne Williams?

A black girl named Deanna Williams. When profiled it was clear that Deanne Williams had a signficantly higher intelligence and curiosity than other black students shown in the video.

This comment indicates what happened to Deanna Williams later.

Deanna Williams, she’s doing extraordinary. I did some digging, because I was curious about her and wanted to see if I could get an update. She ended up getting her Doctorate Degree in Education from the University of Missouri, and she’s the Director of Multicultural Affairs at Fontboone University.

Multicultural affairs is a euphemism for black and brown interests.

This is a problem with blacks becoming educated. Has she become a professional race scammer, as that is what a person who works in a multicultural affairs office does. It is a grievance office that seeks to parasitize something built up by whites.

No doubt Deanne’s job is to advocate for blacks. It promotes reducing academic standards in an attempt to get more blacks into Footboone University — which will, as with the black high schools profiled, degrade the academics and civility of Footboone University. When you educate blacks, they use that education as a weapon to pry more benefits out of white society. Even if you educate a black person, you cannot instill in them any type of work ethic, curiosity or etc… So they need to find a way to scam, and the easiest people to scam are whites, particularly white liberals who will listen to the complaints of blacks and their proposal that all of their problems are due to whites.

Comparing the Similarities of What Happened to Detroit to Gary, IN

The best way to understand what happened in Detroit is to examine a graph of the same phenomenon in Gary, Indiana. Gary and Detroit are not two different stories. They are the same story.

  • Step #1: White develops a city.
  • Step #2: Blacks move to the city to gain employment opportunities.
  • Step #3: The city has been sustainable for decades, but the black population continues to rise.
  • Step #4: At a certain point, the growth of the black population over-strains the white society — and then white flight takes over. White flight is continual — and it eventually leaves the black population as the highest percentage of any group in the city. The city is becoming an increasingly significant recipient of federal aid. At this point, the town becomes a permanent drain on federal resources, pulling more from the federal government than it pays in taxes.
  • Step #5: Without whites or with far fewer whites, the black population is unable on their own to replace what the whites created, and the city goes into a doom loop.

Now let’s move to Gary, Indiana, our third city example.

City Example #3: Gary, Indiana

This section has been broken out into a separate article, which you can read at How Black Directly Led to the Decline of Gary, Indiana.

City Example #4: Rockford, Illinois

I looked up Rockford’s demographics, and they are as follows:

With a population of only 48.73% white, 22.5% black, and roughly 51% non-white, Rockford will not be a nice city with this demographic combination.

Rockford as a Slum

At the 34-minute mark in this video, a local black man is asked when he really saw Rockford change for the worse — which he said was the early 2000s. 

Isn’t that interesting? In 2000, Rockford was 68% white and 17.7% black. Now in 2020, it was 48% white, but 22.5% black, and rose from 10% Hispanic to nearly 20% Hispanic. There are far fewer whites to make the city nice. The remaining whites are less interested in investing in the city, and each year, more of them leave. By 2024, all of these statistics are worse.

As with all the other cities covered in this article, the white population has steadily decreased.

Towards the 35-minute mark in the video, the discussion again turns to manufacturing, leaving entirely out the demographic turnover of Rockford. Can you imagine the host asking, “Do you think that the whites leaving and the city becoming roughly 42% black and Latino has anything to do with it?

As is always the case, Rockford was founded and built in the 1830s by whites — and then degraded quite recently by non-white immigration into the city. Rockford never had today’s problems from the 1830s until the demographic changed.

See this quote from Wikipedia.

In a decision that continues to affect Rockford to the present day, in 1989, Rockford Public School District 205 closed several schools across the city in a cost-cutting decision.

Well, the tax revenues have declined with the demographic turnover, and blacks and Latinos have more children than whites.

In the aftermath of the decision, the school district was found guilty in federal court of discrimination against minority students. From 1993 to 2001, the school district was under federal oversight to desegregate its schools, costing over $250 million.

Yes, but if you can’t discriminate against black and Latino students and isolate them in schools in their neighborhoods, then they will ruin your schools for whites. Desegregation will mean more whites leaving Rockford, further eroding the tax base.

Media Cover-Up on the Population Decline of Rockford

Notice that this segment does not mention Rockford’s demographic turnover. Curiously, it is not just Rockford. Every city with a high black or Latino population results in a decline in not only the white population but also all metrics that make a location desirable to live. 

At the 1:00 minute mark in the video, the man interviewed says that Rockford should prepare for an influx of people from larger metros. That never happened. Does this supposed expert not realize that Rockford is black and no one, not even blacks, wants to live in a city with so many blacks and with an equal percentage of the population being Latino?

In the same way, the previous video on Gary leaves out Gary’s large natural advantages, as is explained in this comment.

Add to that the fact that the lake itself was hugely important for transporting the iron ore because transporting goods on ship is far cheaper for heavy raw materials like this. Iron Ore was being trucked from places like Upper Michigan and loaded onto barges in places like Duluth to be ferried down to Gary. Gary’s location was an incredible one-of-a-kind spot that had all the ideal qualities one would seek for steel production… probably the best location on the planet.

However, once the demographic became predominantly black, it overcame the natural advantage of the city’s location.

What is Wrong With the Standard Explanation of What Brought Down US Midwestern Cities?

The standard explanation of what happened to Gary is the same as what happened to Detroit: the industries the city relied on declined. However, what if that is not true? Furthermore, the cities of the Midwest did not just decline; in many cases — such as with Detroit, Gary, and Cleveland — large parts of them are considered to be “no-go zones” for anyone but blacks. 

The standard explanation confuses cause and effect. It is not the deindustrialization that occurred, causing the city to decline; rather, it is the rise of the black population (along with, in some cases, the Hispanic population), which degraded the city and made the available employees less desirable, ultimately leading to deindustrialization. This is very obvious from analyzing every town that had a substantial increase in its black population and a corresponding decrease in its white population.

Furthermore, this same scenario repeated itself not only in US cities but, as you will see further in the article, in cities outside of the US. It occurs in towns with different industries, such as Zimbabwe and South Africa, which have very little manufacturing.

City Example #5: What Happened to Milwaukee?

No one talks much about Milwaukee, as it is a city that is off the map, a country that barely anyone talks about. However, the same thing happened in Milwaukee. Milwaukee developed a substantial manufacturing area that was entirely built by whites. Major manufacturing included motorcycles and brewing. These are not industries that went into decline, yet Milwaukee did go into decline. What is the excuse, then, for Milwaukee’s decline?

A look at the demographics reveals the same trend occurring in other Midwestern cities.

In 1980, the white population was 71.4%, and in 2020, it dropped to 32.3%, while the black population rose from 22.9% to 37.8% by 2020. This timeline only goes back 40 years; however, going back 80 years, one would find Milwaukee almost exclusively white.

Getting Back to The Gary, Indian Racial Demographic Graph

Review the graph on Gary, Indiana, and I will provide my counter-analysis to the establishment explanation. I am using this graph because it is the best I could find on demographic change in a midwestern city. However, this relationship is also found in any Midwestern city that has experienced significant decline. It is just that I could not find graphics that are as good as this. 

Blacks in Gary who moved there and lived there from the 1900s to 1960 greatly benefited. However, the problem was that they continually increased their population percentage. As is always the case, Gary was only sustainable with blacks in a significant minority. As their percentage of the population of Gary grew, they began to take control of the political apparatus, which is a death sentence for any city. To prove this point, let us look at the history of Detroit’s public finances. See this analysis in more detail in the article How Black Directly Led to the Decline of Gary, Indiana.

Detroit’s Public Finance History

Coleman Young and all subsequent Mayors of Detroit were black. Notice what happened to Detroit’s public finances during this time. While Detroit’s tax revenues kept declining, it ran up disproportionate public debt — until it was moved into bankruptcy. 

City Example #6: What Happened to Pittsburgh?

Pittsburgh experienced the same manufacturing pressures as the other Midwest cities. However, It never experienced a steep decline.

Why?

Well, the following demographic change table tells the story of why.

In 2020, the white population had declined by 20 percentage points from its high in 1950. However, while the black population has increased, it remains roughly one-third of the white population. This ratio means that blacks are still a minority group. However, the future of Pittsburgh does not look good. Pittsburgh looks to continue to have white flight, although, for ten years, the white population has stabilized. 

City Example #7: What Happened to Minneapolis?

Minneapolis never had the high concentration of manufacturing jobs of other cities in the Midwest. Therefore, it maintained a higher white population longer than other cities like Cleveland or Detroit. Minneapolis, thus, did not develop the bad reputation of its nearby major cities.

However, note that the demographics are still evolving. Minneapolis has had a significant white flight since 1970, and particularly after 1990. Blacks from other cities in the Midwest have moved to Minneapolis to get away from their degraded black cities. Minneapolis is very close to these cities and a natural place to move to. As with Pittsburgh, Minneapolis is going through the process of being degraded by blacks later than the other cities that already have established reputations as bad cities. After the George Floyd riots, large areas of downtown Minneapolis were set on fire by mostly black protesters. I visited Minneapolis a little after the protests. I can attest to the fact that blacks are in the process of degrading Minneapolis. 

Cleveland and St Louis are the futures that Pittsburgh and Minneapolis can look forward to.

City Example #8: What Happened to Youngstown?

The same story applies to Youngstown, OH.

Youngstown’s Population stops growing around 1930 and enters a severe decline after 1960. 

Notice the Democratic takeover by the black population. In comparison, the old population in Youngstown is still majority white. The youth are majority black. And the white youth population is extremely low.

After being ravaged by poverty, Youngstown now leads the nation in affordability.

Retire in Nigger Infested and Degraded Youngstown?

Here is one comment on this video.

Cost of living there and Struthers and around is so low because no one wants to live in a dying slum and expose themselves to so many shootings every week.

And this.

Every day, I thank my lucky stars I’m not there any longer. Gone since the early 70’s and much happier.

City Example #9: What Happened to Cleveland

All the same factors of black undertow apply to Cleveland.

Black City Degradation is A National Issue

This article has focused thus far on the Midwest and challenged the claim that the enormous decline of this region is due exclusively to “deindustrialization” and has nothing to do with the migration of blacks to the Midwest.

However, this same issue is repeated in many cities, not in the Midwest.

City Example #10: What Happened to Cincinnati

Cincinnati is yet another nigger infested city in the Midwest that blacks have ruined. You’ve heard that parts of Cincinnati are off-limits.

Nigger Infested Ruined Cities Outside of the Midwest

City Example #11: The Similar Decline of Baltimore

Baltimore went through the same things as many cities in the Midwest. Like many Midwestern cities, Baltimore was at one time a major manufacturing center of the US. In 1940, whites comprised 80.6% of the population, and the city was thriving. However, in 2020, Baltimore is only 27.6% white and 62.4% black — and Baltimore is considered a punchline –with a vast no-go zone.

Baltimore and Crime

Due to black crime in Baltimore, the city is known for mass surveillance. The following graphic is from an article on this exact topic.

The following quotes on Baltimore are from the article on Baltimore in Wikipedia.

Baltimore reached a peak population of 949,708 at the official 1950 U.S. census count. In every official ten-year census count since then, the city has lost population, with its 2020 census population at 585,708. In 2011, then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said one of her goals was to increase the city’s population by improving city services to reduce the number of people leaving the city and by passing legislation protecting immigrants’ rights to stimulate growth.

This is not going to work. Whites are leaving the city because the city has become black-dominant and black-run. At that point, leaving is the best option for all racial groups.

Baltimore is identified as a sanctuary city. In 2019, then-Mayor Jack Young said that Baltimore will not assist ICE agents with immigration raids.

Baltimore City’s population has declined overall from 620,961 in 2010 to 585,708 in 2020, representing a 5.7% drop. In 2020, Baltimore lost more population than any other major city in the United States.

This is the norm. When a city has a high percentage of its population that is black, the city’s population tends to decline.

See the graph of Gary, Indiana. Once an area becomes predominantly black, the population declines due to white flight, the flight of other races, and, eventually, black flight.

Once a predominantly industrial town, with an economic base focused on steel processing, shipping, auto manufacturing (General Motors Baltimore Assembly), and transportation, the city experienced deindustrialization, which cost residents tens of thousands of low-skill, high-wage jobs.

The city now relies on a low-wage service economy, which accounts for 31% of jobs in the city.

This is the standard or establishment explanation. However, this same phenomenon has occurred in any city that has transitioned from predominantly white to predominantly black. With such a large black population, having highly skilled jobs becomes no longer possible.

Considering the Black Devastation on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor

The following quote from Wikipedia explains the rapid decline of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The Inner Harbor was one of the few tourist attractions that Baltimore had — that is, until blacks began to go there.

Baltimore’s history and attractions have made it a popular tourist destination. In 2014, the city hosted 24.5 million visitors, who spent $5.2 billion. The Baltimore Visitor Center, which is operated by Visit Baltimore, is located on Light Street in the Inner Harbor. Much of the city’s tourism centers around the Inner Harbor, with the National Aquarium being Maryland’s top tourist destination.

This was true in 2014. However, black vandalism and mistreatment of the Inner Harbor have dramatically decreased tourism to Baltimore since this quote was written.

As soon as black people begin to frequent a tourist area, that area ceases to be a destination that can attract other tourists. 

This is a quote from someone who used to visit the Inner Harbor.

The Inner Harbor was built up to attract tourists in the early ’80s. Forty years later businesses are leaving due to a decrease in tourists and an increase in crime. Baltimore has been in decline for years. Now, it’s a dying city on its last leg.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Inner Harbor ends up being practically a ghost town in the future.

Again — why is it dying?

Why are all the cities that have large black populations categorized as dying?

Here, we have a tourism area. The Inner Harbor is not a manufacturing area; its decline cannot be blamed on “deindustrialization.” The reason for the Inner Harbor’s decline is the black population.

The Example of the Black Devastation of Buckhead, Atlanta

Atlanta used to have a very well-known and active nightclub area in Buckhead. However, in the early 2000s, blacks began to go there, which led to fights and shootings. To address the issue politically correctly, the nightclubs were shut down, and the area was converted to high-end shopping. This eliminated blacks’ interest in visiting Buckhead, and the city became civilized again. Baltimore has not learned this lesson. They continue to allow blacks to visit the Inner Harbor, which means that the Inner Harbor will cease to be a destination for any groups but blacks.

City Example #12: Similar Decline in Philadelphia

Philadelphia is also not in the Midwest — however, the same pattern repeats.

In 1970, the city was 63% white; in 2020, it had fallen to 34.3% white. On the other hand, Blacks have gone from 33.3% to 38.3%. This is a less drastic change; however, the migration to Philadelphia happened earlier. The higher the percentage of black residents compared to the white population, the worse that city will be. In 1970, at least the whites outnumbered blacks by almost two to one. Now, blacks outnumber whites in Philadelphia. This is not entirely due to an increase in the black population, but because of an increase in the Asian and Hispanic populations in Philadelphia. However, it’s not Asians or Hispanics that make a city pleasant, it is whites.

Philly’s Decline Has Mirrored the Rise in the Black Population

Philadelphia’s reputation is so bad that a black comedy sitcom called itself “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” a poke at Philadelphia’s reputation. If Philadelphia were nearly all white, the show would unlikely have been named for the city.

Black Crime Always Gets out of Control When Blacks Run Black Cities

More Bad Schools in a Black Run City?

As with all black-inhabited and black-run cities, Philadelphia’s schools are not terrible. 

City Example #13: Similar Decline in Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington is one of those cities that fly under the radar. However, it is yet another example of what happens when blacks become a substantial percentage of a city’s population. Notice the population decline in the white population from 2000 to 2020. Blacks have been the dominant ethnic group in Delaware for decades. However, blacks had nothing to do with building Delaware into the city it became. Delaware is a late-stage city; this is where most of the white population has already left, and as there is less that can be parasitized, the black population will probably start to leave as well.

Notice the growth of the overall city’s population below. The town reached its maximum size in 1940, with 112,504 people. However, by 1950, the population had begun to decline. This is likely because black migration to Wilmington makes the city less desirable. By 1980, the population had declined by roughly 42,000, shrinking by 37.5%. This was due to white flight, as blacks made Wilmington less desirable. As there are fewer whites, the average behavior level declines, crime increases, and destructive policies are enacted by an increasing number of blacks in political positions, worsening the situation.

The Effect of White Flight on Blacks

The original reason that blacks moved to Wilmington was to take advantage of what whites had built. With fewer whites, and most of them behind gates or otherwise restricting their interaction with blacks due to fear of being parasitized, this gives blacks less to extract. Trust has been ruined in Wilmington due to blacks.

Moving to Parasitizing the US Government

After the blacks can no longer parasitize whites, they move to parasitize the US government and absorb a very high percentage of the available welfare benefits. Blacks have shown a willingness to reproduce multiple generations based on government handouts.

The result is a city that was built by whites ends up being handed over to blacks, and the city falls off of the list of towns that anyone wants to visit. Blacks then say they need more government support and then complain of racial discrimination. 

As a former city, Wilmington has become a location for companies from other states to incorporate. This reduces the tax burden on different states. Another thing Wilmington does is export usury laws from Delaware to other states through its influence on their laws. This means that a person who has a credit card in Nebraska issued by a credit card company incorporated in Delaware is subject to the nonexistent usury laws of Delaware, rather than the usury laws of Nebraska. As blacks became a target in Wilmington, Wilmington became a target in other states.

City Example #14: Similar Decline in Camden, New Jersey

Notice the decline of whites from 1950 to 2010. Whites made Camden pleasant, and blacks, as parasites, were attracted to what whites created. By 1970, a white flight was underway; by 1990, it was a runaway train. In my lifetime, Camden has always been known as a no-go zone and a punchline. These tables are from Wikipedia.

Let’s review the next demographic table, which takes us to 2020.

By 2020, whites will be nearly absent from Camden. But by 2020, the Latino population is at 52%, and the blacks have declined in absolute number from 34,277 to 27,800. Without the whites to parasitize, it’s time for the blacks to leave Camden to ruin other cities. Latinos with very low standards will actually move into areas ruined by blacks. Camden’s violent crime levels have decreased because Latinos are less violent than blacks. 

The following is a whitewashed explanation of what has happened to Camden.

Camden’s cultural history has been greatly affected by both its economic and social position over the years. From 1950 to 1970, industry plummeted, resulting in close to 20,000 jobs being lost for Camden residents.

As with all coverage of black-ruined cities, the fact that this was an intense period of black migration to Camden is left out of the discussion of why industry plummeted. Between 1950 and 1970, the percentage of the city’s population that was black increased from 14% to 39%. No town with such a high percentage of blacks has ever proven sustainable.

This mass unemployment as well as social pressure from neighboring townships caused an exodus of citizens, mostly white.

Really? It was entirely due to unexplained economic causes, which the dramatically increased black population had nothing to do with – even though this same pattern has been repeated in countless cities.

This gap was filled by new African American and Latino citizens and led to a restructuring of Camden’s communities. The number of White citizens who left to neighboring towns such as Collingswood or Cherry Hill left both new and old African American and Latino citizens to re-shape their community.

Why did they leave? Isn’t diversity (non whites that is) a strength?

To help in this process, numerous not-for-profit organizations such as Hopeworks or the Neighborhood Center were formed to facilitate Camden’s movement into the 21st century.

This will not accomplish anything. The fact remains that what made Camden sustainable was the whites. Blacks came and ruined that, and now Latinos are picking up the pieces, and the city will function at some degenerated Latino+Black level. This will never return Camden to what it was. With a white population percentage at 4% Camden (and still declining) is now a third-world country — and is doubtlessly a net recipient of federal tax dollars rather than a contributor to the federal government. The politicians of Camden will be a combination of black and Latino, both of whom have no idea how to run an advanced society.

City Example #15: Similar Decline in Pine Bluff – Arkansas

This video notes Pine Bluff’s decline into being a punchline and all the same things happening to Pine Bluff that happen to all cities with a significant black population — but never once blames blacks for the decline. In every case, the cross-city comparison that could be performed with other cities that became black is never done, and in each case, other reasons are blamed for the cities’ decline. 

Pine Bluff, AR, is about as black as Detroit. No city with such a high black population is sustainable. As with the other towns, Pine Bluff was built up and made nice by whites and then degraded into horrid conditions by blacks. No matter how many times this pattern repeats itself — the obvious cause — blacks are left out of the analysis. Blacks have not been held responsible for all the US cities and towns they have ruined by moving to them. 

City Example #16: Similar Decline in Oakland

Oakland continues its multidecade decline. 

This Video Covers the Decline of Oakland

Oakland was massively degraded by 1990, when the percentage of the population reached 43.9%. In 1940, when the black population was 2.8%, it had none of the problems it has today.

Oakland is interesting in that the black population is shrinking as a percentage of the city, down to 22% in 2022. They are being displaced not by whites but by Hispanics and Asians.

City Example #17: Similar Decline of Washington, DC

Washington, DC is “murdertown,” because it has a very high black population. 

Washington, DC was 71% white in 1940, and it is now only 39.6% white. And blacks had a very significant population of 28% in 1940, but it is now up to 41%. The higher the percentage of the black population in DC or any other city, the worse that city becomes and the less sustainable it becomes.

City Example #18: Similar Decline in Kansas City

Growth of Black Population

Kansas City declined along with the rise of the black population.

The city did not have any near this level of criminality and violence back in 1940, when the population was close to 90% likely.

Similar Decline in European Cities

This article is focused on the US. However, the same issue happens in any place where blacks moved into areas that were previously built up by whites.

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Conclusion: Understanding The Black Doom Loop

Political correctness has made my explanation and analysis in this article impossible to explore or even utter. This means that logic is being censored so that blacks are not viewed accurately as destroyers of cities. The only time black migration to the city is sustainable is in the early stages. In the early stage, the effective dominant white society masks the dysfunction of the early black migrants. However, as the black population continues to rise — through the success of the early black migrants. Eventually, the black population increases to a point where both the companies and the population are no longer willing or able to tolerate blacks at the concentrations that they ultimately become. As soon as white companies and the white population withdraw, the city falls into a doom loop, and other excuses are searched for to explain away the fact that black migration had degraded yet another white-originated and white-built city.