I'm sure you are at least somewhat aware of the practice of redlining.
I would recommend doing more research on it and how it has had a lasting effect on families and communities due to their inability to hold equity in their homes (good luck getting a loan) or see any return from investing in their homes. That's lithium grease to the cycle of poverty, which, of course, leads to all the things that go along with it: crime, poor health, substance abuse, domestic abuse, single-parent homes.....which, in turn and with the aid of media bias, reinforces the perception of blacks as seen by white America as lazy, criminal, stupid, etc. (good luck getting a job when up against an similarly qualified white candidate; or gaining enough experience to even get that qualified).
It is none of it simple—and maybe I'm doing a poor job of laying out the path of logic to my stance on the larger issue—and I don't claim to have all the answers but I get the feeling you are missing some rather clear benchmark policies and rebrandings of policies throughout our country's history that have very effectively hamstrung blacks for generation after generation up through to today.
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Posted: 06/12/2020 at 11:11PM