The Most Racist City In The U.S?

It's Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin according to researchers at Race to Equity -- a Madison-based initiative started by the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families -- and reported here at the SocialistWorker.org website.

Excuse me for a moment while I smirk.

Let's look at the data:

In 2011, the unemployment rate was 25.2 percent for Blacks compared to just 4.8 percent for whites. Nationally, the unemployment rate was 18 percent for Blacks and 8 percent for whites.

In the same year, "over 54 percent of African American Dane County residents lived below the federal poverty line, compared to 8.7 percent of whites, meaning Dane County Blacks were over six times more likely to be poor than whites.

More than 74 percent of Black children live under the poverty level as opposed to just 5.5 percent of white children. The report suggested "that this 13 to 1 disparity ratio may constitute one of the widest Black/white child poverty gaps that the Census Surveys reported for any jurisdiction in the nation.

 In 2011, African American youth in the Madison Public School District had about a 50 percent on-time high school graduation rate, compared to 85 percent for white students.

African American adolescents, while constituting less than 9 percent of the county's youth population, made up almost 80 percent of all the local kids sentenced to the state's juvenile correctional facility in 2011.

Madison is one of the most liberal cities in the U.S.  It's detractors call it 50 square miles surrounded by reality, an observation that is funny because it's true.  We know liberals aren't racist because they constantly tell us that they aren't (and that conservatives are) ad nauseum.

What is to blame for Madison's racism?  The study identifies several causes.

The University of Wisconsin.  The U turns out a lot of well-educated young people who stay in Madison after graduation making it difficult for undereducated people to find jobs.  Additionally the 40,000 students are a reliable source of part-time workers who also make it difficult for others (Blacks in this instance) to find work.

 Segregated neighborhoods that confine Blacks to a limited number of sectors in Madison.

A criminal justice system biased against blacks.

The report  concludes that "the alarming truth is that our numbers, taken as a whole, suggest that the distance between whites and Blacks (in terms of well-being, status and outcomes) is as wide or wider in Dane County than in any jurisdiction (urban or rural, North or South) for which we have seen comparable statistics."

Socialists calling Progressives racist It doesn't get better than this. 

Somewhere in Madison a graduate student is writing an article blaming Bush and the Tea Party for this problem.  And the student will be a white male or female, living in a nearly all-white housing area, and will have only a few token Black friends.  The student will be under the guidance of a white professor who lives in a neighborhood of mostly white people who shop at Whole Foods and feel fully enlightened about race matters because they voted for Barack Obama and like classic Otis Redding albums.

Madison is racist. and blind to its own hypocrisy.