Wednesday, July 15, 2020

legalizing Racism

THE UNITED STATES is arguably the most racist nation in the entire history of inhumanity. In his new study "The Color of Law"  author Richard Rothstein describes how government at all levels fosters systemic racism. He points out that verified research by the University of Utah and Indiana University proves that on average African-american home owners pay thirteen percent higher property taxes than European-Americans, and that blacks proportionately own far few hoes, due to barriers erected systemically against black home ownership. Despite the numerous civil rights act passed by congress since World War Two, despite the Fair Housing Act passed in 1968, intended ostensibly to end housing discrimination, such discrimination has instead been perpetuated by other, more subtle means. That government at all levels systematizes racism is indisputable, through arbitrary race base property assessment, zoning laws, urban renewal, and red lining, the practice by which race is factored into consideration of loan grants. Imminent domain is used to destroy black neighborhoods for highway construction, and are chosen for that purpose.. Industrial facilities which produce lethal air and land pollutants are zoned into or near black neighborhoods. The list of race based policies is nearly endless. Despite meager attempts at racial integration such as busing and affirmative action, American society self segregates often through white suburban flight, and America in 2020 if more racially segregated than throughout most of its sordid racist history. White suburban flight is a phenomenon observed for decades, as black neighborhoods are gentrified and turn white, and white neighborhoods turn black, and are deprived of basic social services, such as good schools. White neighborhoods are undervalued for purposes of property tax assessment, and overvalued for purposed of home sales. The opposite is true of black neighborhoods. The Fair Housing Act does nothing to prevent all this, nor to prevent schools in black neighborhoods to be under served, under funded. The most famous violator of the Fair Housing Act is Donald Trump. He and his father were twice cited by the Department of Justice for housing discrimination. In the United States of Antipathy Against African-Americans, racism is passed from generation to generation, and racists are rewarded, financially and politically.

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