I was just gonna say that this has to be an urban segregation thing. Our Walmarts where I am at are mostly in predominately white neighborhoods. We don’t have anything really behind glass except tobacco. Meanwhile our PoC dominant neighborhoods have barred windows on their gas stations and liquor stores. These are also coincidentally the most underfunded neighborhoods. Yet our Walmarts are by half a million dollar homes. It’s by design but I think that is preaching to the choir. Solidarity for my PoC comrades.:(
I wasn’t even really aware of this here until I joined in the marches after George Floyd was murdered. Started working a bit more with our local PoC figures and it became an eye opener. I try to help where I can with drives and awareness but with being vaguely involved with local politics, when funding for these areas get brought up it always falls in dead ears. They tried to get money for a park and cleaner water but we really needed a new baseball stadium instead, ya know?
Yes, I am near a city in the US with a 60% black population.
It used to be a bustling hub with a population of 600,000 and it was a gleaming heart of transport, steel manufacturing, and industry.
As black people moved to the city, white flight began, and now the city is a shell and husk of its former self. A population of 50,000 is all that remains, all the industry has left and has rotted away, and the stores are all barricaded and closed down.
The black population are basically interned in a city turned into an massive camp, by police officers that come from wealthier neighborhoods outside the city. The neighborhoods surrounding the city have houses worth 5+ million dollars but they are separated from the city by bridges, highways, and impassable obstacles so that you can only each them by car.
The irony is palpable. Only probably 10% live in the rich houses. The rest live in hovels on the outskirts of the rich neighborhoods, and they delude themselves that they are part of the “in group”.
and they delude themselves that they are part of the “in group”
It really is this aspect that seems to cause a lot of the suffering. Like just in general. I see a bit of this whenever people argue against a minimum wage increase to a living wage and part of that is that they currently make some essentially arbitrary amount that is more than a minimum wage so they fear that it would put impoverished people closer to where they are class-wise. So many arguments that I have had just to lift my fellow humans even a little bit out of a shitty life and people just seem to dig in their heals. The CEO of McDonald’s isn’t gonna let you ride on his yacht, Travis, no matter how many times you try to reduce the workers to “burger flippers”. Sorry for this turning into a tangent/rant… I’m in a gloomy place right now lol.
Something that blows my mind about US infrastructure is how so many suburbs can only be accessed by underpasses that are specifically designed to be too low for buses. Because minorities tend to use public transportation more.
Blows my mind how they will actively design their living environments to be worse just so they can be more racist.
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I was just gonna say that this has to be an urban segregation thing. Our Walmarts where I am at are mostly in predominately white neighborhoods. We don’t have anything really behind glass except tobacco. Meanwhile our PoC dominant neighborhoods have barred windows on their gas stations and liquor stores. These are also coincidentally the most underfunded neighborhoods. Yet our Walmarts are by half a million dollar homes. It’s by design but I think that is preaching to the choir. Solidarity for my PoC comrades.:(
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I wasn’t even really aware of this here until I joined in the marches after George Floyd was murdered. Started working a bit more with our local PoC figures and it became an eye opener. I try to help where I can with drives and awareness but with being vaguely involved with local politics, when funding for these areas get brought up it always falls in dead ears. They tried to get money for a park and cleaner water but we really needed a new baseball stadium instead, ya know?
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Yes, I am near a city in the US with a 60% black population.
It used to be a bustling hub with a population of 600,000 and it was a gleaming heart of transport, steel manufacturing, and industry.
As black people moved to the city, white flight began, and now the city is a shell and husk of its former self. A population of 50,000 is all that remains, all the industry has left and has rotted away, and the stores are all barricaded and closed down.
The black population are basically interned in a city turned into an massive camp, by police officers that come from wealthier neighborhoods outside the city. The neighborhoods surrounding the city have houses worth 5+ million dollars but they are separated from the city by bridges, highways, and impassable obstacles so that you can only each them by car.
The irony is palpable. Only probably 10% live in the rich houses. The rest live in hovels on the outskirts of the rich neighborhoods, and they delude themselves that they are part of the “in group”.
It really is this aspect that seems to cause a lot of the suffering. Like just in general. I see a bit of this whenever people argue against a minimum wage increase to a living wage and part of that is that they currently make some essentially arbitrary amount that is more than a minimum wage so they fear that it would put impoverished people closer to where they are class-wise. So many arguments that I have had just to lift my fellow humans even a little bit out of a shitty life and people just seem to dig in their heals. The CEO of McDonald’s isn’t gonna let you ride on his yacht, Travis, no matter how many times you try to reduce the workers to “burger flippers”. Sorry for this turning into a tangent/rant… I’m in a gloomy place right now lol.
Something that blows my mind about US infrastructure is how so many suburbs can only be accessed by underpasses that are specifically designed to be too low for buses. Because minorities tend to use public transportation more.
Blows my mind how they will actively design their living environments to be worse just so they can be more racist.