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Originally Posted by Gwaihir
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Yes. It's built-in to-the-system by tropes that are perpetuated by trumpeting "how much shittier your life would be if you were black"
It says, "oh...you were poor? Could you imagine how much shittier your life would be if you were poor AND black?!"
You ever consider that they treat them differently because they act differently? I grew up in a shitty gang infested neighborhood with a majority of minorities.
Pretty big difference between the general vibe of hanging out in my neighborhood, and going across the train tracks to the "white" neighborhoods. The white neighborhoods were alot more "square" and the criminally minded violents were a lot less prevalent, almost non-existent on the "white" side of town
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It sounds like you're saying the more affluent (rich) neighborhoods had low crime, and the poor neighborhoods had more. Makes sense to me.
It also sounds like you're saying that minorities tended to live disproportionately in the poor neighborhoods, whereas the affluent areas were disproportionately white. Again, makes sense!
In fact historically, white people have deliberately designed their cities to create exactly those conditions. Only whites could purchase property in certain parts (the "good" parts), so minorities could only own homes in the worse neighborhoods. In other words, many cities literally have racism built into the geography itself: it doesn't get more systemic than that
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And look, I'm not even disagreeing with what you're saying about society's messages, because that shit does matter too. But again, it's a drop in the bucket against the
actual,
systemic racism that does exist in our society. Stuff that goes back generations (eg. when the color of your skin could legally control where you could buy a home) ... but still screws over minorities even today.