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In reply to the discussion: They Dared Me to Post This... [View all]Baitball Blogger
(46,699 posts)I would say that discrimination in hiring and pay is associated with economic injustice.
Discrimination in real estate transactions is something that is measurable if someone does field work. Simply send potential buyers into communities to see how the realtor responds. Sometimes it's the realtor that sizes up the situation. I have heard a young realtor who referred to our community in insular terms. She acknowledged the fact that we may have seedy people in our community, but they are our people. Everyone else is unknown and, presumably, that's even more undesirable.
When you consider that this community is 90% white, you can't help feeling like the comment was on the racist side.
But, listen 1SBM, I don't think, anymore, that the federal method of putting up affordable housing in cities like mine is the answer to equality. Now that I know how the status quo games the system, it's almost unfair to bring minorities into this environment where their dreams will surely be shattered. The sad part is that they will have no idea what they did to attract such bad luck into their lives. What they will never have access to is the private meetings that go on around here all the time, where people advance their own causes and those of their inner circle at the expense of everyone else around them.
You have to break those entitled circles before you can have any hope of equality on a community level.