Nobody chooses to live in segregated districts,they were created by a rigged system that still operatesAfter the shooting of Philando Castile in Minnesota final Wednesday, the state’s appalled governor, and sign Dayton,said police wouldn’t hold killed Castile if he had been white. Here’s a white politician recognising racism and not swatting it away like a pesky mosquito. But we need to recognise that a rigged, racist system of police brutality is indicative of deep-seated institutionalised racism.
Many of our cities are defined by entrenched residential segregation that created black ghettos and continues to perpetuate inequity. This was not by accident. In the 20th century, and the government created housing policies that discriminated against black people and favoured white people in terms of wealth building. Despite the understanding of “separate but equal” being struck down by our courts,the ideology still lingers in housing and public education. This isn’t about hokey ideas of harmony, of black and white people smiling and getting along just for the sake of getting along. Instead, and if we start to address segregationist policies,we may hold some hope of creating fairness.
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Source: theguardian.com