Everything you are speaking of is primarily past history of nearly 100 years ago. History can teach us important lessons, this is true, and it has. While we aren't living in Shangri-la, things are considerably better today from what they were over 100 years ago. We can't keep applying prejudice where prejudice doesn't exist and that's precisely what happens. Some (fill in your favorite skin color, race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.) hold all of one group or another accountable for certain behaviors of a few. Then we pass laws that do likewise and foster continued resentment between the groups rather than healing. Why? Because we are more interested in vengeance than we are in just eliminating prejudice.I understand what you are implying, and this is why I stated that it's a complex and complicated issue. Black people by majority have always been impoverished compared to the majority of White people. The domino effect and self fulfilling prophecy is that if black people don't have access, or if access is manipulated to make it extremely hard to obtain, it's going to be near impossible to improve the communities. Since it was illegal for many generation for black people to live, work, or mingle in areas that white people could easily use. It makes sense that black people by majority will be effected negatively for generations.
Sure. In 1933 there was a housing shortage in cities. So one aspect of the New Deal created the Federal Housing Administration. That which gave heavily subsidized loans and grants to white middle class Americans to move into suburban projects. African Americans were banned from these subsidies and the FHA would not insure or sell to African Americans.
The FHA was the Federal agency that was providing the money and regulations to builders, insurers, and realtors.
When the Cival rights act passed and made it illegal to discriminate based on race, that's when the Southern strategy became more popular. Since black people could now access federal programs and would be high demographics for them by capita, the rhetoric changed to attacking poor people in general, since it could be argued there are poor whites as well. The purpose was the same, just harder to prove.
We see this theough how rhetoric evolves. I can say the same for liberal rhetoric as well. There is always a through line of liberals being fistainful to labour, and conservatives being against non whites and non Christians.
This isn't saying the general public, but how rhetoric and politicians push issues. I would say modern Republicans are generally Evangelical, white, lean towards Austerity, and anti LGBT. Modern Democrats are pro LGBT, Pro Welfare, reliously liberal, and pro academia.
You might be fine. My biggest issue was losing 2 cards in rapped succession and then both of my balances for those cards being turned into collections immediately. I'm rebuilding, buy it's made my life considerably harder. Got into payday loan cycles for a summer to help my Mom out. I'm also free of that but it rakes years for it to fall off your report.
We can't keep living in the past. I'm full blooded German. If I dug far enough back into my past, I'm sure I could find that in some time my ancestors were oppressed and even enslaved. Possible by ancient Rome. Should I be holding Italy accountable to give me restitution for that? I'm just happy it hasn't and doesn't happen to me today. Actually, I only have to go back about 100 years to find when German people were oppressed by the WWI allied countries. When Germany surrendered the Allies weren't happy with that but rather had to seek revenge and punish Germany even more. Would it be fair or right for me to hold the world accountable today for it too and demand special treatment and restitution from the Allied countries for something I wasn't even alive to experience or do I follow Jesus and forgive?
Gang wars go on and on and on. Why? Because its all about vengeance. Group A does something to a member of Group B so Group B has to retaliate. Then Group A is inspired to retaliate for that retaliation and the war goes on.
Prejudice and vengeance are horrible things indeed.