A 13-Year-Old's Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School

[HiPointDem]

81. kettling means to keep people within a certain area, as in kettling people during protests.

the main thing keeping people in economically segregated neighborhoods is economics.

and if you're saying services are withheld by race (which has nothing to do with kettling), you're going to have to explain why they're not withheld in the neighborhoods of the black bourgeoisie, and why poor white neighborhoods also have poorer services. Also why its black government officials doing a lot of this withholding, as in detroit.

it's not 1950 anymore. We have black elected officials, black police, black administrators, and you know what? They have the *exact same policies* as the rest of the governing class. They do the *exact same thing*. They're enforcing privatization & austerity & gentrification on the cities *every bit as fast* as the whites are.

i have no idea what 'swamp people' is or what relevance it has to the conversation. i imagine it's some kind of personal slur, though. not sure why you felt you had to resort to that kind of thing.