Is Sarah Mirk trying to win nice white kid merit badge?

I sit here in stunned silence every time I read something by this supposedly-educated journalist who seems to think that all black people are poor and helpless. I don't think that she is a racist or anything, I am just shocked that she seems to lack any understanding of economics. Kimbo Slice can move to the Pearl District and Newt Gingrich can move to N Williams. It is all about money and doesn't have one thing to do with race.

Yeah, god forbid African-Americans move to the suburbs like white people. Ugh. When I lived in Vancouver, I lived in a new subdivision where my 1600 square foot house was the smallest in the development. Most were over 2000 square feet and two-level. They were nice houses with nice yards and nice neighbors. Kids would leave their bikes in front of their house and they'd be there the next day. More than few times, we accidentally left our garage door open overnight. Nothing ever got stolen.

On just my short little block of the subdivision, we had two African-American families, a family immediately next door with kids, and an older woman just across from us. (The mullet man with a '70s corvette and wife who always wore Daisy Dukes in the summer who lived next to her would mow her lawn every week.) This is a large part of why only 25% of North Portland is African-American and I say good for them. I don't know why people think that self-segregation is a good thing. My other next door neighbor was a mixed-race couple, an Asian and white. There were many other Asians, blacks, and hispanics in the neighborhood, along with recent immigrants from Eastern Europe. It may be presumptuous, but I think that neighborhood was what civil rights activists were largely fighting for.