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Recently had a conversation about "inner city" communities with a coworker. We're in Baltimore and she's an immigrant from Russia. She's concerned about the agg
by equalunique 7y ago
Recently had a conversation about "inner city" communities with a coworker. We're in Baltimore and she's an immigrant from Russia. She's concerned about the aggressive behavior/vandalism/crime of "inner city youths" - but being new to this country, she's unaware of how they got there/came to be there in the first place. Slaves fled to northern cities like Baltimore with nothing. Post-slavery, the communities and wealth they built were in most cases repeatedly destroyed/quashed/displaced by racists holding positions of power. The anger seen today is from being constantly cheated, generation by generation, by people who claim to have the moral high ground.
- deogeo 7y ago> she's an immigrant from Russia. Most Russians were literally owned by their landlords until 1861 [1]. After that, they suffered the most deaths of any country in both world wars, and many famines and purges under Stalin, and extreme repression in general in the Soviet Union. Try not to frame her as completely ignorant of oppression. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom_in_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom_in_Russia
- equalunique 7y agoGreat points, and I didn't mean to, especially as a reflection of "all Russians" or something like that.
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- teachrdan 7y agoIn the case of Baltimore, Wells Fargo employees targeted black families for subprime home mortgages in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis, even when they qualified for conventional mortgages with lower rates. Wells Fargo organized events for African Americans on "how to build generational wealth," but internally said they were selling "ghetto loans" to "mud people." https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/us/07baltimore.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/us/07baltimore.html https://consumerist.com/5283290/affidavits-on-how-wells-fargo-gave--ghetto-loans-to-mud-people.html https://consumerist.com/5283290/affidavits-on-how-wells-farg...
- coding123 7y agoOn that second link > Paschal complained, yet Wells Fargo promoted him to area manager... And here he is at another company... https://www.jgwentworth.com/mortgages/about/branch-locations/virginia-woodbridge/david-zoldak https://www.jgwentworth.com/mortgages/about/branch-locations... https://www.jgwentworth.com/mortgages/about/branch-locations/virginia-woodbridge/david-zoldak https://www.jgwentworth.com/mortgages/about/branch-locations...
- asdffdsa 7y agoWell, it's gotta stop sometime right? Past history doesn't mitigate her concern
- equalunique 7y agoTrue. One of our newest coworkers has been robbed by gangs on the way back from work twice now, and he's only been working there for three months. There's real reasons to be concerned about crime.
- andonisus 7y agoSo should she not be concerned about this behavior? Does the fact that it stems from systemic racism and oppression make her any more safe from it?