Behind Detroit and Milwaukee
2006-10-23 08:24:20 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Our divided neighborhoods are what you get when government agencies that should be enforcing civil rights laws look the other way while real estate operators illegally use racial and ethnic criteria to steer homebuyers into monochrome communities.
A prime example is currently on display in the form of a
federal complaint filed against the Corcoran Group real estate juggernaut
this week by the Washington-based National Fair Housing Alliance, a civil
rights organization.
In the fall of 2004, the group sent black and white testers into Corcoran's Brooklyn Heights office and recorded a host of
shenanigans as agents bent over backward for the white clients while
apparently stiffing the black ones.
In one case, a Corcoran agent showed a white tester 13 properties - but showed only one place to a black applicant with a better income and job profile. In another case, a Corcoran agent allegedly marked
up a map of Kings County with a red pen
2006-10-23 08:33:14 · update #1
I would have guessed Washington DC was at the top. You got the NW Georgetown area and the HOOD
I like division that whole StarTrek alien lifestyle thing of everyone wearing the same cloths and looking alike seems weird.
Go big red Go
2006-10-23 08:34:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure they're as segregated as you say, but it's all relative. Compared to what? Compared to Conservative cities, do you mean? I live in a mixed-race, mixed-income neighborhood here in Washington DC, actually. Which may be unusual, but such places do exist. I encounter people of other races constantly in the hood, while at work downtown, while riding the DC city buses and subway lines, and in restaurants, grocery stores, coffee shops, movie theaters and museums, etc. I also have black neighbors in my apartment building, although I'm not very close to them, and the cops and city officials here in Washington often are African American, or more rarely Hispanic, while I'm white. Also the candidate I campaigned for for Mayor this year is black; and on Friday nights the popular downtown clubs that attract young people seem to draw in a wide racial mix -- maybe reflecting the racial mix of several local colleges. Here in Washington, you also witness some cross-racial gay relationships, black guys and white guys sitting closely together in bars, or strolling together in the more "gay" parts of town, or even living together on a long-term basis. The annual gay pride march is quite integrated. However, from what I can see as a more or less straight outsider, there seems to be some segregation in the gay community: it's not totally color-blind. Nor is Washington DC as a whole very color-blind: many of us living here are probably fairly racist, I know I have been at times. Parts of this city are enormously segregated. But a number of people in my part of town have just gotten used to dealing with each other, mostly because we have to. You get used to it after awhile, and when you do it starts to feel easier. You're correct about many East Coast cities being residentially segregated, though. Are you saying that more conservative cities in the South & Midwest & West are not? My impression is the opposite. But I don't know. Maybe other conservative towns are more integrated than the smaller cities where I've lived in Iowa, Utah and Indiana. Each of them was either all-white, with almost no racial minorities at all, or else highly segregated by race; and nobody could say their politics was "liberal."
2016-05-22 01:50:18 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People tend to want to live with their own kind. I see no problem with that. Perhaps their experience is that black people aren't comfortable in the snobby white communities? You can't make a general judgment on people from one test.
Stop looking for racism everywhere, and you'll live a much happier life. When you want to be a victim, you will find lots of opportunities. When you're a fighter, no one can keep you down.
I don't care who lives in my neighborhood as long as they are paying their own way.
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2006-10-23 09:52:43 · answer #3 · answered by FozzieBear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how so? you have no link so it doesn't exist.
I live and work in NYC and we have people who work and get along with each other on a daily basis...
so what the hell are you talking about
All I have to do is look at my officemates and see people of all different types working there...the only differeance is that I do not see them the way you do apparently.
I see them as my friends...
you are hopeless humanist.
2006-10-23 08:31:54 · answer #4 · answered by smitty031 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our cities are segregated by color alright, The color green. I can't afford to live someplaces Black people live, I don't make enough to live there. You got money, thats the great equalizer.
2006-10-23 08:29:34 · answer #5 · answered by justa 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Who cares, man? Just be nice to everyone you meet and stop ALL liberal bellyaching OK?
2006-10-23 08:32:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is Bush to blame for that too?
2006-10-23 08:34:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is California we LOVE and want to sleep with all races and genders.
Shame on you New York!
2006-10-23 08:28:56 · answer #8 · answered by Idonta Feelwell M.D. 1 · 1⤊ 4⤋
What makes you think seperate but equal was just for the south .
2006-10-23 08:26:47 · answer #9 · answered by playtoofast 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Not by law. By personal choice, maybe.
2006-10-23 08:26:39 · answer #10 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋