Report Updates Landmark 1968 Racism Study, Finds More Poverty And Segregation

Thank you for the cultural history share.

Because the problem isn’t racism but socioeconomic status. Are there racists? Well neo Nazis and radical black lives matter proves there are but that is no longer the real issue. Whether you are talking about poor inner city blacks or poor rural Whites the issues overlap. Poor white tend to be rural, out of site and out of mind. Their crushing poverty is completely ignored by a media consumed with flaming fans of racism and identity politics. Meanwhile they are drowning in a cycle of broken homes, lack of infrastructure, jobs, economic and educational opportunities, low tax base to repair build schools and hire teachers and a tsunami of opioid addiction. African Americans poor tend to congregate in large cities where they are readily visible and inconveniently noticible As compares to invisible rural white. They are also awash broken school systems, lack of infrastructure, jobs and community opportunities, a drug epidemic (mostly crack), an epidemic of fatherless children, and a cultural crisis of murder and violence within their urban communities. The point is although there are some uniques aspects to the urban poor (percentage of fatherless and soaring violence) the problems are very similar to the other poor communities regardless of race. These are largely socioeconomic problems stemming from socioeconomic causes. When will people stop focusing on race and start actually dealing with the socioeconomic hurdles that effect the human race and all American Citizens. All of the poor deserve a chance at a good education, safe environment and gainful employment. We need to be practical and honest. Improving communities takes time and money. We are segregated as a society and it is not by race it is by socioeconomic status. It is not socialism to recognize that middle class salaries have been stagnant since the 60s in terms of real income adjusted against inflation, and the prices of nearly everything has skyrocketed, any economist Call tell you this. It is also clear that a smaller and smaller group of people are consuming and controlling a tremendous amount of economic resources. The numbers differ between economists but aomewhere in the area of 67 cents on each dollar is made by 3% of population. Another common graphic is 75% of all economic instruments (cash etc) are controlled by the top 5% of people. All of these projects take money. Consider the problem with schools. Developing a good educational program takes money. You need a good structure, good salary to attract teachers, facilities and money for programs. Our current system has the “school district” taxes support the school. So a school in a run down economically devastated neighborhood has no money to improve and must try and sustain inself on handouts. The same goes for other programs. The poor need the foundational tools to participate in society. They also need a hope that things can improve or get better as a society we need to come to terms and have a discussion about what are fair wadges and what constitutes access to the American Dream. A discussion about corporate responsibility to our nation is critical. Corporations which benefit from the blessings and protections America provides have a corresponding resoonsability to the community ie stop over shore hiding of profits and pay their taxes. If they want to operate overseas business they are able to move their operations to those locations ... but they won’t because America is a great place to be. So we as a country will be able to address this when we pull our heads out of our 3rd point of contact and address how the actions of the ultra wealthy and cosporations effect our funds available to develop the infrastructure and programs to help these communities without stealing from other middle class communities to do so. They want us to keep race baiting and missing the point. It’s all about the socioeconomics. As soon as we can face the music and stop being manipulated we can do something about it.