THEO 1089 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Redlining, White Supremacy
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Racism present in politics and economic systems. No longer jim crow, but it has changed towards predatory ways . Housing (in one community, the black family will have ,000 income, and the white one will have ,000). P. 7 (evidence of wealth and market gap today) Wealthy black families are still living in neighborhoods dominated by poor white families. P. 7 ,000 vs. ,000 evidence of wealth and market gap. It is difficult for black families to succeed intergenerationally. Predatory contracts real estate is marked up for black families and sold for much more than it is worth. Tool of segregation and wealth gap increase. P. 21 myth that fatherhood is the great antidote to all that ails black people. Absent black father is the root of the problem. The overarching problem is poverty, not racism. Hard work is the solution because there is equal opportunity for all. I was surprised by all of the statistics i encountered throughout the piece.
