| PSintend0 said: Strong division between poor and rich is linked to racism. Poor neighbourhoods having darker people and rich neighbourhoods being more whitish doesn´t help to eradicate racism, it makes it more difficult. In the past some thought that darker skin made you less of a human and that justified slavery. The present is build on the past. |
This isn't at all surprising given that the FHA played a large role in deciding which neighborhoods would become rich vs. poor, and they did explicitly using racial bias. Legally through 1968. Under the table for many years after that.
Sadly, I think too few people know this reality. I don't think that a vast majority of Americans hold bigoted feelings in their hearts. But I see a lot people making some form of the "slavery ended 150 years ago so people don't face racism today" argument. It's ignorance more than it is flat out hatred. We have an uphill battle, too. States aren't funding education at the rate the used to. Our education secretary wants to expedite that process. And the Internet doesn't help either. People can find endless amounts of written word that conforms to and reinforces their biases.
