Black Farmer Calls Out Liberal Racism In Powerful Facebook Message

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211. You totally misinterpret his statement.

It doesn't show that he is conservative, at all. He is talking his own life experience, which you are trying to invalidate by comparing liberals to Trump. What he is saying is that some self-defined liberals are hiding racial prejudices themselves, and not doing enough to challenge racism.

and this has nothing to do with Trump. It has a lot to do built-in institutionalized racism in Charlotte, which is deeply segregated both by race and class.

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Charlotte today is an extremely segregated city. Whites largely live in a triangle in the city’s south, between South Boulevard and Providence Road, where neighborhoods are between 80 and 95 percent white. “Drive down our street, just about everyone is white,” Jimmy Carr, a white resident of that triangle, told me.

Blacks and the city’s growing Latino community live everywhere else. Census tracts in the north and west parts of the city are 70 percent black or more. And 43 of the 51 tracts that are 70 percent or more black or Hispanic are high poverty, according to 2014 Census data.

This segregation has proven an increasingly uncomfortable fact for a city that prided itself on racial harmony in the 1990s, as my colleague David Graham has written. In September, the city experienced demonstrations and riots after a police officer shot black resident Keith Lamont Scott.

And the city has been reckoning with damning data from the economist Raj Chetty that suggests that poor children in Charlotte have a worse shot at economic mobility than do poor children in 49 of America’s largest metro areas. Segregation plays a central role in that."

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/segregation-invented/517158/