Someone said this to me via internet messaging today (from a white individual):
"_____ street is a waste of time since the negros came in... it was
SO BUSTLING and awesome but the f****** blacks took over, and I dont
even feel comforitable [sic] walking down it anymore."

An offensive bit of racism... but I am wondering if there is a source
of information I can find on this perceived phenomenon, or what it is
called: by perceived phenomenon, I mean the perception or reality that
a race is "taking over." If I can just find some jargon about it, I
can further research myself.

I just need some information to better make an argument against the
kind of ignorance present in that statement.

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 24 Apr 2006 20:06 PDT

Try researching "there goes the neighborhood".

Small ethnic groups that take over a particular area and behave in a
anti-social and violent way, causing other residents and visitors to
be terrorized, often play the 'race' card and use 'racialism' from the
complainers as an excuse. It occurs in every city and small town in
Australia, and a lot of people are thoroughly fed up with it. The
colour of a person has nothing to do with it, it is the antisocial
behaviour that is abhorrent.

"... and I dont even feel comforitable [sic] walking down it anymore."

You may have heard that in Potsdam, Germany, a German citizen of
Ethiopian origin was recently brutally attacked  - still in an induced
coma.  The assumption is that the attack was racially motivated. 
Africans interviewed in Potsdam after the incident said much the same
thing, not about any specific street or neighborhood, simply about the
fact that the incident heightened their fear of being attacked.

As Pugwash explains:  it is the antisocial behaviour of a small group 
- in this case, ethnically part of the overwhelming majority.
Also, as he points out, the percieved change in a neighborhood does
not have to result from blacks or yellows moving in, although color
makes the change more apparent.
Although the comment quoted was obviously racially oriented, face it,
most of us prefer to live amoung like-minded people who share our
interests and life style.
(And to some extent, we have laws and housing regulations that
"protect" us from activities that are beyond the  - our -  accepted
norms.)

The quotation was clearly not politically correct  - one doesn't say
that -  but the perception expressed is IMHO reality.