People conflate race with the class issue. I live in a neighbourhood full of people who look like me and don't look like me, and while we've had some crime here I've never felt unsafe. When I was scouting 'hoods many years ago I applied my usual tests - What condition are their cars? How well do they dress (not fancy/expensive, just clea…
People conflate race with the class issue. I live in a neighbourhood full of people who look like me and don't look like me, and while we've had some crime here I've never felt unsafe. When I was scouting 'hoods many years ago I applied my usual tests - What condition are their cars? How well do they dress (not fancy/expensive, just clean, basic decent clothes).
Class is what's important, or just basic decent appearance and minding one's own business. Poor, drug-ridden, criminal white people are just as scary as their darker similar brethren and sistren.
Absolutely. As I pointed out to Plural, most communities are segregated by poverty. If you just cast your eye over some communities, this is easy to mistake for segregation by race. There are many reasons for this. Racism among them. But it's both silly and unproductive to pretend that racism is the sole factor.
People conflate race with the class issue. I live in a neighbourhood full of people who look like me and don't look like me, and while we've had some crime here I've never felt unsafe. When I was scouting 'hoods many years ago I applied my usual tests - What condition are their cars? How well do they dress (not fancy/expensive, just clean, basic decent clothes).
Class is what's important, or just basic decent appearance and minding one's own business. Poor, drug-ridden, criminal white people are just as scary as their darker similar brethren and sistren.
Absolutely. As I pointed out to Plural, most communities are segregated by poverty. If you just cast your eye over some communities, this is easy to mistake for segregation by race. There are many reasons for this. Racism among them. But it's both silly and unproductive to pretend that racism is the sole factor.