We HAVE to TALK about racism and police brutality

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58. Mostly only white people see that as an issue, since black folks really don't need them.

Look at from a black point of view - you'll understand.

Just a thought, though. Look instead to more modern times, where middle class black people move into a gated community and make it a nice place with good values. For example, Ferguson. Take a look at the videos. Those are middle class suburban streets with patios and gardens and flowerbeds and such. That ain't somebody's east side (or where ever the folks with little money and no power are segregated by your city). These aren't people left with no tax base when the money left - they are black govt and middle class workers and secretary's who moved out to the suburbs to get away from the life in St Louis, including the racism. And now suffering the extra hit black skin takes when trying to find a job. And now the killing of a 18 year old man with no record? And police who treat the people like they are animals?

Just one more - despite the laws, from 2005 to 2008 there are hundreds of documented cases of black skin with clearly as good lives and credit being steered to and charged more for home loans than white skin (I doubt mortgage brokers saw them as people, just skin and fees). There is a passage in one of my books about one of our great banks targeting those neighborhoods with specific advertising that also used that practice.

What we are seeing is not just the result of gentrification, or "white flight", or "discrimination". We are seeing active, intentional acts designed to hurt people both financially and physically, in a nation founded on the principle that white skin is what a whole person has, black means you are less than that and subservient.

It's a hate issue, not a housing issue.