New York's Buffalo city has history of racism behind cloak of unity: New Yorker


By Xia Lin

NEW YORK, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Buffalo in U.S. state of New York is known as the City of Good Neighbors, nationally and internationally, but racial segregation is seriously noticeable here for decades, reported The New Yorker magazine last week.

With a large Black population constituting more than a third of the city, "there is severe residential segregation, which keeps Black and white residents living in different social, economic, and political realities," it said.

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