You are ignoring the key part of what he said. Why else would there be racial covenants explicitly excluding non-caucasians?<p>Sure, fear of crime was one of the mechanisms of white flight, but American fear of crime has a big racial component to it. Historically, America has kept black people poor, confined them to poor neighborhoods, and then blamed blackness for the high crime rates that go with poverty and desperation.<p>This game continues today. Donald Trump recently tweeted something with totally made up statistics blaming black people for murders of whites:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rawstory.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;that-racist-trump-tweet-about-blacks-killing-whites-isnt-just-false-its-neo-nazi-propaganda&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rawstory.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;that-racist-trump-tweet-abou...</a><p>It wasn&#x27;t just wrong and it wasn&#x27;t just racist. It was literally neo-nazi propaganda.