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Racism is real and a problem, but you could have an entirely all-white city in the US, it would still have this problem. In my own city, Austin Texas, the grea
by rossdavidh 3y ago
Racism is real and a problem, but you could have an entirely all-white city in the US, it would still have this problem. In my own city, Austin Texas, the great majority of the homeless appear to be white. NYC has a black mayor, it hasn't (apparently, according to this article) made an appreciable difference.
- krapp 3y agoI wouldn't say racism is the problem, but it is one of the problems. It can be the case that white people are disadvantaged by systemically racist policies originally intended to target black people. That urban planning sometimes had an explicitly racist element in its execution, such as American transportation infrastructure being laid out in such a way as to disenfranchise black communities[0], is a simple but unfortunate historical fact. The ripple effects of racism baked that deeply into infrastructure don't just go away when society becomes desegregated. [0]https://www.kqed.org/news/11943263/americas-highway-system-is-a-monument-to-environmental-racism-and-a-history-of-inequity https://www.kqed.org/news/11943263/americas-highway-system-i...