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It's more complicated than that. It's a soft racism -- many are fine with wealthy or well-to-do black neighbors, but do not want poor neighbors. They also don'
by ebiester 12y ago
It's more complicated than that. It's a soft racism -- many are fine with wealthy or well-to-do black neighbors, but do not want poor neighbors.
They also don't want to do what is really required to make sure the next generation of black citizens is truly on equal footing, including actual poverty remediation. That means taxes and wealth redistribution.
- afarrell 12y agoIsn't that called "failing at intersectionality"?
- cpncrunch 12y agoI think it's more to do with the fact that most people don't want to live in a violent or crime-ridden area.
- happyscrappy 12y agoWealth redistribution will not be sufficient, there are cultural issues as well.
- ebiester 12y agoThat isn't to say "give them $100,000." That is to say it will cost money to put the programs in place to get education on an equal footing, including things like sufficient food subsidies that aren't based on calories but actual nutritive equality, and making sure that these graduates don't have soft discrimination like this: http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html There are cultural issues, to be sure, but they don't all lie on those in poverty.