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This shouldn't be surprising at all. As someone who lives in a primarily black, urban adjacent neighborhood (midtown Kansas City) for the last two years, I can'
by tjr225 9y ago
This shouldn't be surprising at all. As someone who lives in a primarily black, urban adjacent neighborhood (midtown Kansas City) for the last two years, I can't help but think that America is a place where our government prefers to help corporations and businesses over people. Here in KC we have public schools that have been de-credited, crumbling water and sewage infrastructure, and the bare minimum of public transportation. I say all this as someone who loves this country and whenever I go abroad I can't wait to get home...but there are times when I am driving through the ghetto that the thought of America as a first world country is laughable. Our government and our culture does a massive disservice to our people.
Edit: While there is much more to the city than the eastside, here is a neat HBO documentary about the drugs & violence in eastside KC in the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wbt16OevZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wbt16OevZc
- devoply 9y agoWell historically America was more or less built like that. It's just that you need perspective to see it and many Americans simply don't have that. America was founded on the premise that the rich in America no longer to pay taxes to the hereditary rulers. They have always ruled and the corporations are simply their heirs. It's a way to separate their interests from their persons. The labor movements and the World Wars forced them to distribute their wealth. But it seems that we're going in the other direction again... and this time coupled with the fact that it's more difficult than ever for them to exercise their birth right, more profit. So they squeeze out the middle class. It's expected.