Kim-I go live in an hour and don’t have time for a back and forth. But with all due respect, your comments are extremely short sided and offensive—and very emblematic of someone who lives on the coast and doesn’t see much in the trenches. Structural and systematic racism is one
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Then it’s even more alarming what you’re saying (and I don’t believe Idaho is the most diverse state in the country). To spout that racism isn’t a big problem and essentially people are focusing on the wrong thing is just factually wrong. Yes-there are other problems than racism
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But race is part of most other problems-from 08 housing crash (disproportionately harmed black people) to environmental genocide (disproportionally harms minority communities) to gentrification (greatest havoc on minority communities).
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If u go into communities across country you will see that there is very little separation between race and poverty. A major reason there is serious poverty in black and brown communities across the country is because of RACIST policies--redlining, racist standards for FHA loans,
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zoning laws that isolate and push minority communities out of affluent cities, and a laundry list of other regressive things codified into law to pit road blocks over minorities. For example: although Flint, Michigan—where I've reported 14x in 3 years—has a significant number
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of poor whites, it is 58% African American (and a significant undocumented community).
#FlintWaterCrisis doesn't happen in the first place in a majority white community because the state government would NEVER have played Russian roulette with a majority white community in a ploy1 reply 3 retweets 17 likes -
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to privatize the water system. By the numbers, the emergency manager laws in MI (where unelected bureaucrats where appointed to seize control over elected officials). 50% of majority black communities had emergency managers inserted. This is just one examples.
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Since the abolition of slavery, African Americans had the government set the deck against them ECONOMICALLY...as Netflix's brilliant "13th" showed, African Americans were locked up en masse after they were freed to maintain their labor. This has continued modern day.
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Obama/Oprah in many ways are exceptions that prove the rule. Both had tremendous countervailing forces in their lives that allowed them to succeed against odds. Theyre outliers, their exceptionalism shouldnt be seen as somehow accessible to majority. Kind of a lottery argument.
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