Because of its brevity, my story is stripped of context here. In context: 1) this was just one of many such moves on the part of the city government 2) it was v

Because of its brevity, my story is stripped of context here. In context: 1) this was just one of many such moves on the part of the city government 2) it was very much in line with the prejudices loudly and unashamedly expressed by many in the once-very-white suburb 3) these moves got underway only after non-whites began moving to the city in significant numbers and therefore clearly were not about economic status at all. (That is, the city didn't want to knock down the affordable housing when it was full of low-income white people.) When I was 20 years younger, I might well have made the argument you're making. But I would have been wrong.