cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3482200
USA apartheid
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2024
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In 1954, you had a White water fountain and a Colored water fountain.
In 2024, we have abolished water fountains and try to sell you the same water in a plastic bottle that costs $5. Also, whites live in these enormous suburban enclaves where you'll never seen a person of color because real estate agents simply won't sell to them.
It's also because our state and local officials either A) completely misunderstand how to distribute Low-Income Housing Credits or B) Have a full understanding of the consequences of concentrating poverty within a central location via Low-Income Housing Credits, and do it anyway.
If you do not spread the LIHCs around your state / city within “High Opportunity” areas, you just compound the poverty. When you stack poor people on top of poor people under the guise of “Well this area is full of poor people so let's designate more LIHC there because they need them.” you just create a multiplicative effect on the areas' poverty. No one can afford to patronize the businesses in the area, and no one living in the area can afford to open a business. Which means no local employment for the poor, and no local commerce for the poor. They have to travel for work, travel for groceries, travel for everything. This means they're either buying a car and maintaining it, or attempting to rely on dilapidated public transportation.
What you get are dens of poverty that actually make it even harder to rise out of poverty, and total segregation of a population that ultimately skews black and brown. The real estate agents hardly need to expend any energy to be racist when the structures they work inside of area doing most of the heavy lifting for them.
All that is true. But there's also the issue of Red Lining and race-based lending practices and real estate shitfuckery that make certain neighborhoods - which would otherwise be affordable to everyone in the given income bracket - inaccessible to PoCs. This, combined with staunch refusal to adopt multi-lingual education (particularly the dreaded Spanish), and segregation of education (whites-only Universities), and segregation of career paths (engineering firms and legal firms and hospitals/clinics that won't take on junior hires outside their ethnic group), force people to cluster together by circumstance.
This doesn't even need to be segregation by income, either. Houston's Bellaire district is overwhelmingly Vietnamese (and South East Asian generally speaking) in large part because its the only part of town that caters to Vietnamese non-Native speakers. There's no shortage of wealth and even some amount of political power consolidated in Bellaire, but its still functionally a ghetto.
It's definitely B. The wealthy don't want the poors anywhere near them, and they'll go to great efforts to ensure they never have to notice or interact with them.
We live in a much more civilized time. Nowadays we poison the water of minority communities with lead and then drag our heels to fix it even after it becomes national news. And of course no one responsible for it will ever be held accountable for their actions. Hooray for progress!
We poison the water with lead and ten years later we send in the police to deal with all the crime. The machine of politics uses it all to justify amplifying the policies we always wanted to embrace.
And where does the money for the next round of policing come from? Well... that next district over just can't afford clean water anymore.
Jokes on past America because both fountains have lead.
I’m white. Where’s my free house?
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I can’t comprehend this article.
sounds about right for a cracker
Way to miss the point
Way to not recognize a joke when you see one.
That's fine the audience is just letting you know your joke sucked. You gotta satirize the chud talking points not just repeat them exactly.
Dang, didn’t realize this place has been infiltrated by a bunch of libs. My bad.
Much better, definitely making some progress. Doesn't really make sense in context, but you really can't go wrong calling someone a lib around here. That's always going to land.
I’ve never commented here before, but this community really does have a weird vibe. Like, is it not based a comedy podcast? What am I missing? Feel like everyone here is weirdly serious and a little overly sensitive.
We're actually a community about the drug lord chapo, not the podcast chapo
It's primarily a shitposting board for communists / anarchists / Marxism / left unity in general, but also hosts a lot of book clubs (Das Kapital being the most active atm) and serious discussion in the news mega.
People jumped on your post because it was more or less indistinguishable from one of the many right wingers who find their way here and the site culture towards that is to be extremely abrasive with mockery. Don't feel to bad about the replies, it has happened to pretty much everyone here and being from a different instance people are going to be extra quick on the assumption that you actually meant it
The culture here is pretty strong and unique so it's probably confusing as shit to outsiders, but is actually quite comfy once you get used to the flow
Well shit, I’ll keep that in mind. Appreciate the response. I’m definitely not a rightoid lol. I used to post on the old Reddit sub before it got banned. Figured this place was more or less the same, but it does seem noticeably different. I’ll try to lurk more before commenting again.
apologies for going hard, we just love to dunk and we're having ongoing struggle sessions about how cringe it is/isn't for our whiteboy userbase to post about hating crackers so much
honestly, it's just that users of other instances so often wander in and post unhinged racist or transphobic shit so the "@reddthat.com" probably set everyone off
Your 'joke' made no sense even in context.
die cracker
Literally in Levittown, brother. Did you survive the Great War to End All Wars? Come on down and get a custom built home with a white picket fence for zero down and a pittance a month.