We need more Diversity and Inclusion

[MaceCase]

23 hours ago, AtLaS said:

 

Gentrification bad?  Man it must suck when your property value drastically increases and you have to sell for a big profit.  I'm hoping my neighborhood "gentrifies" soon, I'll happily move.

 

 

Well yea, gentrification can be awesome, if you actually own your property.  If you're a renter?  Not so much and last I checked people of lower income tend to not own much property.  And no, their credit wouldn't matter either if their neighborhood was subjected to redlining before a bank decides that now that it's on the upswing they don't have enough capital for a loan or worse, reverse-redlining.  So it's not a simple matter of HOORAY FOR CAPITALISM, a lot of lives are negatively affected by it.

[HawkItus]

If you truly want to understand racism in America and its economic effects read this:

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

 

It is long, but it details exactly what Supes is saying.  

[bleachkit]

If our society is a covert white supremacist system designed to protect the interests of whites and whites only, then why are Asian students doing so well in school and getting into all the good colleges? 

[lethalweapon3]

16 minutes ago, bleachkit said:

If our society is a covert white supremacist system designed to protect the interests of whites and whites only, then why are Asian students doing so well in school and getting into all the good colleges? 

Because they used their gumption, bravery, and will to overcome the familial and economic impacts of The Middle Passage, slavery, Jim Crow and systemic housing, voting, and educational discrimination spanning several centuries? No, that can't be it. It's a splendid topic you can delve into further if you choose... in a whole other forum. But it appears you've answered the reason for original topic title, though, however wittingly.

~lockedw3