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Terrible for minorities also.

• toasterlovin 9y ago
  How is it terrible for minorities?
  • alistairSH 9y ago
    In the US, they are (very) generally less affluent, so they are less able to absorb cost increases. This is particularly the case in areas that are rapidly gentrifying. It's a visible issue in some neighborhoods in DC. Blocks that were nearly 100% minority 15 years ago are predominantly young, white, and affluent. But, the corner church is still run by a minority pastor, with a largely minority congregation, all of whom want weekend parking on the street (as they now "commute" to church from the outer suburbs).
    • rgbrenner 9y ago
      wouldn't it be more accurate to say poor people then? It's not just poor minorities who can't live in these areas.. poor whites, poor elderly, etc aren't living there either. And I'm sure Satya Nadella doesn't have a problem paying for a house anywhere, even though he's a minority.
      • refurb 9y ago
        Agree. It's a poor person problem, not a minority problem. The effort some people will put into pushing identity politics is astounding.
        • alistairSH 9y ago
          While you aren’t wrong about it being a poor problem, it would be extremely naive to believe past policies in the US haven’t contributed to some minority groups being more likely to be poor.
          • toasterlovin 9y ago
            Wouldn’t it also follow then that the same policies have contributed to other minority groups being more likely to be rich (thinking mostly of Indians and Asians)? And if that’s the case, then maybe looking at this through a racial lens is largely irrelevant?
            • alistairSH 9y ago
              Most of the data I can find deals with black and white, occasionally Latino, and almost never mentions Asians. So, I don't know if your suggestion is true. Anyways, I agree that viewing poverty solely through a racial lens is not productive. But, race does play a part. At the very minimum, blacks are more likely to be poor than whites. They are more likely to experience downward economic mobility. And more likely to experience multi-generational poverty.
    • alistairSH 9y ago
      Down voted for answering somebody else’s question. Gee thanks.
  • humanrebar 9y ago
    I'm also wondering about this. Texas is a majority-minority state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Texas