MS>Pittsburgh has had 25 years of racial troubles in the city schools,
MS>all in a city with few real racial problems otherwise.
 
RM> Excuse me, Matt, but this is kind of a silly statement; if
RM> there are racial problems in the schools, then there ARE
RM> racial problems in the city as well.  That they haven't
RM> manifested themselves in riots, etc, doesn't mean that they 
RM> aren't there.  What you're describing is the expected clash 
RM> of two different cultures meeting for the first time; which
RM> is probably happening at the middle and high school levels.
MS>But Pittsburgh still doesn't have the outright violent racial
MS>problems of a Detroit or an L.A.
Granted... A lot of what happens seems to me to be more in
the nature of opportunism or random distruction as opposed 
to racially-motivated actions... Youngish kids (mostly) see 
an opportunity to bust things up, set some fires, steal some
stuff and get away with it....
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