I have a poor grasp on the details around this shift, but likely due to society responding to increasing crime rates (which were in turn... due to lead or something?). Stuff like anti-drug laws, the Broken Windows policy and (ironically) the Biden Crime Law likely contributed.
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It’s the root of the problem, kept black populations poorer and more unstable, then add Jim Crow and redlining in the north. That makes black people extra vulnerable to what comes next: deindustrialization, white flight, for profit prison, crack/overpolicing
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This all came to a huge head in the 70s-90s when the economy was fucked.
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what happened in the 1990s?
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like i said in the thread, there was a series of revisions to laws
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Systemic racism in all forms, segregation, old racist laws regarding communities/housing, the war on drugs, and low economic opportunities from all of this have led to present day black generational fragmented and racial disparity over time.
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Why do you think black incarceration skyrocketed in the 90s?
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