Two people I'd actually be interested in debating - on TOTALLY opposite ends of the spectrum - are @nhannahjones and @colinflaherty. Can you convince me that (1) most American uniqueness traces to slavery OR that (2) racial violence is epidemic in 2020?
That's not true though. Exactly analogous to saying that the risk of death by jumping into a woodchipper is near zero because last year there were zero fatalities from it. That crime rate is *after* people take massive measures to avoid black people. Look at RE prices.
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We already handled this. Just look at interaction rates. Black people make up 14% of the population, interact with whites 10+% of the time, and make up 15% or less of those who attack whites. This is just white
#BLM, man.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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So, yes: if you moved into South Harlem or I into a WVa holler, risks of an inter-racial attack would increase. But, the above "integrated middle-class city" scenario very SPECIFICALLY places IRC risks in the context of the median situation where a median risk would occur.
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Blacks weren't ethnically cleansed from rural WVa - whites in Harlem were. There's no evidence for the other half of this equivalency (and considerable evidence against it).
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#last - you're also assuming most Black people are poor, and the suburbs aren't 25%+ integrated with POC. Here's an actual breakdown of Black incomes. Again: ghetto or trailer park - maybe dangerous. Integrated prom - you can stop running and screaming.pic.twitter.com/RXT8HmqbmH
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Not what I'm saying at all. What I'm saying is that if you matched RE on all dimensions but racial composition of the neighborhood you'd see that people will pay a large premium to avoid living in black neighborhoods. That premium is due to safety - not irrational prejudice.
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