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America does not have a stellar history nor even present day. Red lining still happens. The previous president’s son in law and family are considered to be slum
by skinnymuch 5y ago
America does not have a stellar history nor even present day. Red lining still happens. The previous president’s son in law and family are considered to be slum lords in their operations. This is not a political statement, more so about a rich and powerful person able to get away with things.
There’s other issues like what a Marketplace episode[1] went over recently where the system is effectively built to screw over some segments of the population into losing their land and home.
We still have not done any amending of the horrible tragedies that have gained more mainstream awareness in places like Tulsa Oklahoma, Wilmington North Carolina, and likely other places. We just continue to let the status quo remain today.
Imminent domain coincidentally never seems to affect or bother the very well off.
> US would look like if we could kick someone out of their neighborhood and force them to sell or give up their home simply because we didn’t like them
The US and world at large are so far from not being close to what you describe those. Sure the exact wording you used may not happen [much] any more. That doesn’t change the many similar not much better situations happening. Nor are past examples of authoritarian abuse and the actions you stated rectified. The status quo normally remains.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/04/02/983897990/how-jacob-louds-land-was-lost https://www.npr.org/2021/04/02/983897990/how-jacob-louds-lan...
- patrickdavey 5y agoI listened to that show when it came out. Utterly horrifying and so blatantly corrupt. Only advertising locally and having to pay in cash (so the poor cannot afford to keep their own land). Awful. "In the last hundred years, heirs' property laws have contributed to the loss of millions of acres of Black-owed land."
- bsanr2 5y agoThere is quite a lot of appalling real estate-related NPR investigative programming to find, if one is so inclined. Reveal in particular is a mainstay of, "Inspiring justifiable Sunday afternoon vexation over the state of Americam society." https://revealnews.org/podcast/losing-ground/ https://revealnews.org/podcast/losing-ground/