![]() Sure the redlining of yesteryears has put a disproportionate amount of black people in those areas which sucks but unless you are saying those communities dealing with high violent crime numbers shouldn't be allowed to clean up their streets I don't see what you are suggesting needs to change? If you say legalize drugs, isn't that just you saying black people do more drugs? Wouldn't that make you as racist as you claim Nixon to be?įlint wasn't racism, that's years of a corrupt gov elected by minorities that fucked that city up. Densely populated poor areas are exponentially more violent regardless of race. Sentencing is related to the amount of violence in a community. ![]() Are you suggesting it's racist to not legalize drugs? Nixon is irrelevant, you have to show me how drug laws are racist. If it was you could suggest a change, but the change already happened decades ago. Redlining is illegal, you can argue it's affects are still present but this isn't an example of institutional racism today. People claim institutional racism needs to stop but you make claims things are racist because they disproportionately effect more black people negatively, but you aren't saying how the actual system today is racist I have to go so that's all I have for now but let me know if you want more examples!! Neglecting the right of majority-back areas to, um, not be poisoned and thus have their children be developmentally messed up forever.(See the IBT article for direct quote from Nixon aide.) Voter suppression of a whole demographic was racist then, and is still racist today. Moreover, Nixon explicitly wanted blacks to be unable to vote (since they voted largely Dem and he was going for a tough reelection campaign) which is why he implemented the war on drugs in the first place. As seen in point 1, many black people are already poor due to discriminatory practices, and to disqualify them from assistance based on biased policies created explicitly to target them with felonies, is to keep them and their future generations continuously poor and without means of mobility. Those who are found guilty of felonies no longer qualify for federal assistance of any kind and lose the right to vote. com - I tried to avoid sources like Vox/Vice/ACLU to avoid being labeled as using "biased" articles.)Ģa. (Sources: Stanford paper from as early as 1999, International Business Times, History. Now, black people have higher rates of felony incarceration for drug-related felonies than would be proportional to racial makeup of actual drug crimes committee. The war on drugs was originally enforced by Nixon policy with intention to win over poor white voters who sought to undercut other races/subcultures, to avoid being at the bottom of the social/economic barrel, and is still being enforced without the racist consequences being rectified, if they were ever meant to be rectified.(I chose the linked article because it was the one which first opened my eyes to the practice of redlining the case for reparations itself, on which Coates' thesis is centered, is less important to this list than is the actual historical context.) Poverty is cyclical, and when it's state-backed and there is no effort being made to counter-act the policies at hand, it is indicative of a system which does not care about correcting intentional, modern discrimination. Redlining in housing (which was, really, not even a full generation of home-buyers ago) leads to future generations also being raised in unprosperous areas because there were systemic, state-backed regulations protecting such practices.Now you can no longer say you've "never" gotten an answer! I have some answers for you since you seem to genuinely be willing to learn. I put more of an effort in to make people feel welcome for that reason. And sometimes racist white people do make it hard.įor me as a white person I can comprehend the apprehension. I promise us kind white people do have cool stuff to offer. ![]() Because you miss out on what is amazing about this world. So ultimately I just feel sorry for racist people. I was for sure a minority at these events and still felt very welcomed. The food, entertainment and merchandise was amazing. Today I went to a Brazilian festival and a night market which is put on by the Asian cultural society. I believe strongly all people should be treated equally. Judge someone on their character and not their skin. I mean they are literally falling back on the easiest thing to make themselves feel superior. I do have negative feelings towards racist white people. ![]()
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