Allison, a young African American mother of three, wants to move out of her predominantly black neighborhood because, as she tel
ls people, “It is safer to raise my children in the suburbs.” Allison’s notions about her neighborhood safety are not matched by arrest rates for her current neighborhood versus the suburb where she desires to move, where violent crime is 30 percent more likely. Allison’s reactions demonstrate:
Allison’s reactions demonstrate that something is hidden. That it is a fallacy, and that what she says has no sense at all because she wants to move out of her black neighborhood to suburbs where violent crime is 30 percent more than in her black neighborhood.
Probably, she is running away from something or someone. Or another possibility is that she or one of her children do something wrong and so that they are escaping.
