[mbrubeck]

That's only one of the definitions in Webster. It also includes:

> 1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghetto

(Note: I'm not calling the article's author racist, just noting that the above claim about Webster is factually mistaken.)

[integraton]

In the US for the past many decades the word "ghetto" has referred to qualities associated with poor urban american neighborhoods, specifically black neighborhoods, and only has a historical connection to jewish ghettos.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/27/306829915/seg...