KaiserJeep wrote:...bigoted ... bigoted ...Rascist...
KaiserJeep wrote:
On Nantucket...there is a beach within the border of the town of Nantucket that used to be named "Black Bottom Beach", because it really was a segregated beach that was reserved for the use of the Minority domestic servants on the island, almost all Black, who probably would not have dared to swim anywhere else. The beach itself had the name changed in the 1960s, according to the NHS archives. However the locals still call it "Black Bottom Beach", and anybody is welcome to swim there.
KaiserJeep wrote:As for my own newly inherited home, which appraised for $1.15M in 2016, it is NOT in a segregated area.
KaiserJeep wrote:
Now I have more information for you about housing discrimination, and you can take it or leave it, I am only offering information. First, a couple of years ago, I fell into the habit of using one particular online real estate application. I also took an embarrassingly long time to understand what the red and blue borders around the photos of the listed homes meant. In fact it took multiple trips to Wisconsin, and whenever we had a half day free when the grandkids were busy, we drove and looked at neighborhoods that had homes on the "shortlist". When I noticed such a red border around a recent home listing in Southern Wisconsin, near the Illinois border, I went and signed onto three other real estate apps, and found that ALL THREE had the red border on photo #1. I have concluded that these red/blue borders are inserted by the "listing agent" and that they frequently get removed, probably by the MLS itself. But on some apps, after the listing appears in the MLS with the border, it remains until the next update FROM the MLS to the app, probably a sale or a pending sale or a price change.
My conclusion, is that there are more people who believe in NOT doing this color coding than who do, and yet it is still happening, often enough that eventually a denser type such as myself figures it out. During the period when I had noticed the color codes, but not yet reached the obvious conclusion, I had a conversation with an older woman we knew slightly, as she was the Mother of another girl who worked at the US Red Cross with my daughter (they worked back in the Hurricane Katrina years, but are still freinds today). I asked this woman (a licensed Realtor) what the red/blue borders meant, and she was too embarrassed to tell me, so I was motivated to figure it out.
I'll say this, a lot of online listings have the first picture in the group of home pictures slightly blurry, or at least smaller than the others in the series. Knowing this, the logical conclusion would be an edit to eliminate the color border. There is obviously a movement at eliminating such pernicious and subtle discrimination, whether driven by some government agency, or the owners of the RE agencies, or the threat of lawsuits, or whatever.
KaiserJeep wrote:As somebody once said, "There are none so blind as those who will not see". It was a proverb from around the 16th Century, I think.
don't cast your pearls before swine. ... In Matthew 7:6: “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”
KaiserJeep wrote:As somebody once said, "There are none so blind as those who will not see". It was a proverb from around the 16th Century, I think.
Ibon wrote:. ... In Matthew 7:6: “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”
KaiserJeep wrote:Plant... this is happening:
KaiserJeep wrote:What argues against your theory is that I am talking about Minorities, while you choose to focus on Blacks.
The majority of Hispanics are conservative, religious (even Catholic) and believe in strong family values and have a strong middle class work ethic. Yet because they suffer from the EXACT SAME discrimination from the US White Majority, they have the very same wealth disparity afflicting Blacks.
So try again. Make another excuse for the discrimination inflicted upon Minorities by YOUR RACIAL GROUP, THE WHITE MAJORITY. Then find another excuse after that, then another. Because after all, YOU just couldn't be wrong about such a thing. Even though YOU have benefitted YOUR ENTIRE LIFE from White priviledge, and those Portuguese and Spanish speaking, conservative people with a strong middle class work ethic and even stronger family values than most USA citizens, must be doing something else to explain why they don't get ahead as fast as their OPPRESSORS, which (if you haven't figured this oh-so-obvious point out yet, include your own bigotted, prejudiced self). Because after all, this is the USA, and even though THEY are US citizens, along with all the Blacks that YOUR RACIAL GROUP has been oppressing for 300 years, you are oh-so-sure you have it right.
Because if you haven't fiigured this out yet, the US Government stats don't have a lot to do with illegals. They are measuring US citizens of Hispanic and African ancestry. So go ahead, make another excuse, because you couldn't possibly be prejudiced, could you?
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
KaiserJeep wrote:The Reverse Racism that the government(s) is/are applying is - I think all of us agree about this much - fundamentally unfair, and creating a backlash that may be perpetuating racial prejudices. But the wealth disparities exist and continue to be measured and are worsening as time passes, and regardless of the root cause, the government(s) are attempting to eliminate such.
KaiserJeep wrote: Perhaps this will stimulate a few thoughts: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/
Plantagenet wrote:The Atlantic article is clear that people of any race can succeed if they work hard and choose a career that pays good wages. In talking about the meritocracy, that article says:
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