Racial Segregation and Concentrated Poverty: The History of Housing in Black America

I forgot where I heard the quote from but "Black people have been called lazy ever since we stopped working for free"

In the 70's... we had a clinic, recreation center, ymca, salvation army, grocery store, & a small library; right in the community 😊those were good times, even though we were poor... by the mid 80's all those facilities were gone & replaced with a police station & crack 🥺

It’s called the Projects because that’s literally what they are… projects aimed at a specific demographic of people.

I’m white, conservative leaning with notes of left, and am constantly BLOWN AWAY by people who don’t know this history. I was born in the 60’s and knew people who lived in the projects, visited friends in the projects, and always wondered why is was full of Black Americans. Now I get it: American made slavery illegal, but then turned around and made it illegal to be black. When others say “Look at the immigrants who come here with nothing and do so well…” I have to point out that there was an expectation that we’d take care of our own first. Sure some people make it out of poverty, but only Black Americans were “legally” deprived of prosperity by their own government. No, it’s not rounding up and entire race and exterminating them, but it’s still unconscionable. Even our precious suburbs are racists, but most Americans don’t see that. Biden is doing what he can to start change, but the truth is that YouTube which giving Americans the platform they need to bring these injustices to light. If you think about, outside of the pilgrims, and a few others, most Americans have a history, which is much shorter in this country than that of African-Americans. Definitely something to think about.

I love how it went from denial that it happened to "oh get over it"

And racists say that black people are their own WORST enemy but they completely left this part OUT.....SMH.....

My mom set the example for me. Floors kept washed and waxed, laundry had to be iron, whites had to be washed separately with ivory soap. Shoes had to shine hair braided and skin shined with gasoline.

Gangster rap started being played on the radio the same year private prisons became active.

Please stop acting as if Bidens really helped after 45yrs in the senate. Not to mention 8yrs of vice president.

The Federal Government destroyed many of black neighborhoods but never wanting to admit what that did to our communities.

Integration was the worst thing that happened to us. At least one of them.

And black people ask me why I challenge the government 😂😂 this makes my blood boil

This is why they are literally making laws to prevent topics like this from being taught. They don't want to feel bad about what they did.

I live in corpus Christi Texas and I am literally watching them build a new overpass right through a lower income neighborhood. Many of the residents would not sell their land to the government so they're building a highway right through it to force them out. This is still happening today

It’s so important to document this. For those that would like to learn about this more, please read The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

And despite everything,blacks are the 3rd largest group of immigrants who applied for and were granted patents for their inventions, created every Musical genre in america, and reared the most famous Americans in its history: ali,mj and mj.

There’s a book called ‘The Color of Law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America’ that covers this in detail.

This is why history is important.

I heard from a man who works at CalTrans ( highway industry) that the highways are bias ...so this makes sense to me

There are black folks who never lived in the ghetto. This narrative is wild