It's so sad to think of all the miss opportunities black families have missed that white families so easily had, just due to where your zip code is.
It all feels like we're in a 100 meter race together, but white people get to start at the 90 meter line..how do you even catch up?
Recently I learned about an area in my hometown. Always referred to as the ghetto by family and friends, and were always told to avoid that area. In the 60s that area was a majority black community, but one of their schools were burned down. The (white) fire fighters refused to put it out, and the fire spread through most of the neighborhood. Violent protests erupted afterwards.
If that area hadn't been segregated, if that area the fire fighters would put out the fire because it was a fire, not because of the color of your skin - who knows how that neighborhood could have thrived today.
I’m an immigrant and I just learNed about the redlining. It is sad how the system is Set up easy for white people and more difficult for black and brown people.
What a heartbreaking story about the refusal to put out the fire. I wish our history wasn't so full of stories like that, all these aggressions against communities that weren't allowed any sort of chance to flourish... not to mention purposefully destroyed. I'm so heartsick about all of it. I hope some real change starts to come from the protests, etc going on right now.
I experienced a red line segregation in Michigan. I was visiting some cities in that State and someone told me not to approach to a certain code area. Then, people started talking that the people who lived there (all colored) were spoiling the area.. nobody wanted to live nearby. The cost of houses wouldn't ever be valuable because of them. I really felt sad about that. People are people independently of their colors. Why do white people act that way? What do they think they are? Com'on.. we are in the 21st Century... things have to change.
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