alt Hacker NewsI definitely wouldn't say my lineage had any call in "immigrating" into the US.
And yes, don't underestimate how such maneuvers are very indirect means of white flight. African Americans could only (legally) own a home in much of the US for 50 years. At the very best, that is 2 generations of wealth to accrue, which puts that demographic a good century behind what potentially could have been economically.
50 years would be 1976. Perhaps you're confusing it with the myth about women being legally prohibited from opening bank accounts. (1972 was when sex discrimination by businesses was outlawed at the Federal level, though there was never a law that prohibited a women from having a bank account, not directly, and not indirectly since the 1800s. Some banks discriminated against married women, but unless they lived in a one-bank town there were others that were happy to have their business.)