Not every suburb is near entirely white. In the suburb I used to live in, in Tulsa, it was legit like 90% black and 6% mexican
I can virtually guarantee that is either an exaggeration or a
very poor suburb. There aren't any wealthy black neighborhoods in Tulsa.
i don't think it's much about slavery as it is about generational poverty made worse by the location bias created by the social-ecomonic ghettos carved out before the civil rights era.
a black kid growing up in the inner city doesn't have the same role models, community values, and opportunities that a white kid growing up in a suburb would have, and I think that the reparations this panel suggested--"health initiatives, educational opportunities ... psychological rehabilitation, technology transfer and financial support, and debt cancellation"--would go a long way both in helping race relations and bridging the opportunity gap.
Yea, but those problems aren't just caused by slavery. They are caused by the fact that they've been historically repressed in many ways, so even when we stop officially repressing them they are still on a lower rung of society and thus get repressed for being poor and more crime-bound.
Even though, that's a problem so vague and nebulous you can't fix it by passing out cash and benefits. It requires societal change.
That said, I think we should be giving those things to poor people of all races. Nobody should be impoverished because of medical debt.
