"we have ghettos because federal, state and local governments purposefully created" them (Reply #1)

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Sun Oct 25, 2015, 03:56 PM

Number23 (24,544 posts)

1. "we have ghettos because federal, state and local governments purposefully created" them

Tell us something we don't know!

White flight and gentrification are not just fragments of American history. They still very much exist today as is the idea that black and brown people "drive down property values" and that realtors and home owners will do everything in their power to keep black/brown families out of majority white neighborhoods.

I recently posted an article that said that 1/3 of white people in **2015** still think it's okay to discriminate against minorities in housing. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6975487 And I bet you alot of that 2/3 that said it was wrong just didn't want to go on record.

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18 replies	Author	Time	Post
Historian Says Don't 'Sanitize' How Our Government Created Ghettos [View all]	Kind of Blue	Oct 2015	OP
"we have ghettos because federal, state and local governments purposefully created" them	Number23	Oct 2015	#1
I think it would depend on how you word it	gollygee	Oct 2015	#5
I'm a little confused and need help here.	Kind of Blue	Oct 2015	#6
Well	gollygee	Oct 2015	#7
I believe you are trying to illustrate this	BumRushDaShow	Nov 2015	#18
Even if the "reason" for declining house prices is racism??	Number23	Oct 2015	#8
That was my question, too.	Kind of Blue	Oct 2015	#10
I don't think most	gollygee	Oct 2015	#13
2/3rds think it's wrong	Kind of Blue	Oct 2015	#9
Wow	JustAnotherGen	Oct 2015	#2
Yes, a constant down thru	Kind of Blue	Oct 2015	#11
Read through it twice kindof	JustAnotherGen	Oct 2015	#3
"Can a black family with a home	Kind of Blue	Oct 2015	#14
I was sort of being	JustAnotherGen	Oct 2015	#15
white line, black line, green line	MisterP	Oct 2015	#4
"not everything was necessarily redlined, especially in the 70s"	Kind of Blue	Oct 2015	#12
the danger is that the segregation was able to continue after redlining and covenants	MisterP	Oct 2015	#16
Great read.	blackspade	Nov 2015	#17

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