White flight followed factory jobs out of Gary, Indiana. Black people didn’t have a choice
“He pivots into a frustration about Gary now, about the emptiness, the factories closed, and the shops boarded up.
‘Segregation did this to Gary. When the jobs left, the whites could move, and they did. But we blacks didn’t have a choice. They wouldn’t let us into their new neighborhoods with the good jobs, or if they let us, we sure as hell couldn’t afford it. Then to make it worse, when we looked at the nice houses they left behind, we couldn’t buy them because the banks wouldn’t lend us money.'”