• footfaults [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    I think America is still, de-facto segregated. America only removed de-jure segregation in the 60s but now the separation between African Americans and whites is due to income disparity and housing disparity, where "oh sorry you have to live in X place because you don't have as much money as Whites" instead of "you must live here because of your skin color, it's the law"

    • footfaults [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      This also explains why public amenities have been eliminated since the 60s. Because the laws do not allow discrimination, and everyone would benefit, including African Americans, therefore those public amenities will no longer be offered.

      For example: public pools

      https://www.npr.org/2008/05/06/90213675/racial-history-of-american-swimming-pools

    • DiltoGeggins [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      I feel like this question has a correct answer. And your answer is most correct. Any area we examine, we will find that this answer applies, from housing, to policing, to employment, to freedom of movement, to educational opportunities, to loans, to voting in elections, to treatment in stores and restaurants, to you name it. the deck is stacked.

    • Hive [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Most of the stats say the income disparity is just the cost of a house with price asset inflation, I think if we just gave people houses a lot of the income gap disappears, but not to even mention the generational trauma that will take 3-5 generations to work out under socialist living standards. I guess stress and trauma, make your DNA activate in ways I dint pretend to understand and it makes diseases mentally and physically more common.