Conventional history of the exodus out of cities ignores numerous complex and interrelated causes.
Speaking at an October 2019 Obama Foundation Summit, Michelle Obama reminisced about growing up in South Shore, a Chicago lakefront neighborhood. Some memories were bitter. The former First Lady, born in 1964, lamented living through “white flight.” As “upstanding families like ours, who were doing everything we were supposed to do . . . moved in,” she said, “white folks moved out.”
If your family moved because they wanted a bigger house in a less congested area with better schools and services with a lower tax burden then your family is racist. Seems legit.
