This is what the legacy of ‘white privilege’ looks like in Bill O’Reilly’s hometown

[KenyaDoll]

I've been saying this shyt for year, the biggest reason for the wealth gap largely due to redlining post WWII.

@EducatedBrothaFromTheBank let this dumb fukk say it's something different.....

Yeah, I've actually discussed the bolded before too. Here is a post of mine from last year that also highlights two really cool books that outline how black people were screwed over:

We just had a similar discussion in the Poverty and Policy class. The issues in the black community (declining marriage rates which led to more OOW births and female headed households, concentrated poverty in the inner cities and subsequently crime, drugs, and mass incarceration, and etc.) all stem from economic issues. Going back to the 1960s and post civil rights era, black people were the only group of people who were locked out of the wealth attainment programs that all groups, even Jews, were able to participate in (VA benefits, loans, and etc). Limited residential choices for AAs at that time, purposeful spatial mismatch of jobs, and economic restructuring away from jobs (manufacturing) that provided a comfortable lifestyle for many AA families only exacerbated the problem and helped form what people consider the modern day black community.

William Juluis Wilson in The Truly Disadvantaged describes this process very well. Karen Brodkin in How Jews Became White Folk also discusses how black were systematically excluded from the "American Dream" and opportunities to reach middle class.

It's just amazing to me that people don't understand that the current state of the black community is related to a legacy of systematic racism and discrimination. Even black people are starting to largely buy into individual versus structural explanations for our current state. Overall, our attitudes toward other blacks are converging with the attitudes of non-Hispanic whites as they relate to other black people and it's scary.

People aren't "doing the history" and if this trend continues then we will likely experience even more deterioration.

 

[No1]

Yeah, I've actually discussed the bolded before too. Here is a post of mine from last year that also highlights two really cool books that outline how black people were screwed over:



It's just amazing to me that people don't understand that the current state of the black community is related to a legacy of systematic racism and discrimination. Even black people are starting to largely buy into individual versus structural explanations for our current state. Overall, our attitudes toward other blacks are converging with the attitudes of non-Hispanic whites as they relate to other black people and it's scary.

People aren't "doing the history" and if this trend continues then we will likely experience even more deterioration.

It is because it is not taught. One should not have to get advanced schooling to know this stuff, but we do. I never knew this stuff in in high school. Until we make it mainstream, we will have a problem.

 

[DEAD7]

On the deed to my house it says No Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Gays, Italians, Irish...

Just like that. With a fukkin line drawn through it.

Post a pic breh

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Stop Complaining black people

Pull yourselves up by the bootstrap

Just work harder

Stop being lazy

Could you imagine if the government did the same thing for black families??? They (the cave dwellers) would burn that place down to the ground and riverdance, or whatever cacs do, on the ashes.

We don't have to imagine. Reconstruction already happened. Rosewood already happened. They want to forget, that's why we can't. They want to rewrite, that's why we have to keep passing the real knowledge down.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

On the deed to my house it says No Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Gays, Italians, Irish...

Just like that. With a fukkin line drawn through it.

I'd believe it only if 'gays' wasn't included. There were other words for homosexuals back then, since it was designated as a mental imbalance.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

What about Romney tho, white people don't stick together at all.

That is unless they all voted for Obama out of white guilt for dominating western society for so long.

White people do stick together.


As for Romney, he had a lot of supporters. The rest were (rightly) skeeved out by the Rich Boy Who Would Be The White Horse of Prophecy Sent To Destroy The US Federal Government in Joseph Smith's Name.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

F*ck America.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

median sale prices of homes in Levittown is $353,000

That's insane. My grandfather bought his house there for $15,000

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

This is form of systematic racism still practiced here in Georgia.
I did a Georgia thread on "fortune" a while back and we were discussing something and got on topic of how a white neighborhood somehow stopped a black doctor from purchasing a home in the area.

If you're black or have black neighbours your property depreciates in value

Reminds me of when my family moved into the neighborhood they live in now back in '93.

WE moved in...and four white neighbors moved out around the same time...

they were probably afraid we'd bring down the property values.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Anyhoo...

Government sanctioned racism has had a crippling effect on the black community. We haven't had the generations to build ourselves up on the same level as whites in this country. Literally some of our parents lived this! We're not that far removed...

Some of the ills we have as a community still need to be worked out and it will only better itself with time and effort.

exactly...white people had a goddamn 400 year head start over us!

but let em tell it and we need to "pull ourselves up by the bootsraps"

f*ck these crackers and their bullshyt.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

as soon as I saw Levittown I skipped past the article

Never knew he was from there.

Yeah we ain't all the a$$hole that he is. Some yeah. I did the real life though when I found out he's from there too.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

That's insane. My grandfather bought his house there for $15,000

I mean we're not taking into account inflation. Homes are one of the best investments you can make though


edit: What the hell is the race track?

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

btw, what do people think blacks would turn to if they are given vastly inferior education, denied job opportunities, targeted for the prison industrial complex, herded into inferior neighborhoods littered with hopelessness and poverty, ransacked with food deserts, inferior health care, etc, etc.... welfare did help break down the family, only because women got bigger benefits for no man being around. ... however, a lot of that has been addressed, i.e.: child support laws....

but why are people overlooking laws designed to lock black men up in jail destroying their lives... execution of black men (i.e.: police brutality) and generations of black men being thrown in jail for petty crimes had a greater effect on tearing up the black community... oh, but let's repeal welfare... no, let's repeal white supremacy... a white man puts his pants on one leg at a time, pisses and shyts just like me, so i'll be damned if i bow my head to those fakkits...

@ white supremacy and anyone who loves it...

bless your soul my brotha...powerful posting!

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

I mean we're not taking into account inflation. Homes are one of the best investments you can make though


edit: What the hell is the race track?

The nice dark dank place where threads that have to do with race g to die a slow death so they don't make certaine posters uncomfortable

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

I truly believe that Reagan was the Godfather of White Privilege. I refuse to let him off the hook. Reaganomics(for those who don't know was really an excuse for more guns and less butter) had cold stopped black progress in the 80s. All Bill O'Reilly is doing is just adding fuel to the fire.

It's easy for him to say that there is no such thing as White Privelege because he benefited from White Privilege.

As much as I agree (to a small extent...hence the reason I dapped your post)...slavery in the americas and coloniaism jumpstarted white privilege, white supremacy and racism in the Americas.