How is racism, poverty, and homelessness connected?

Question

Take as much space as you want to answer this question.

Answer 1

racism leads to low work opportunities, which leads to poverty, which leads to homelessness,,,,, for those who are homeless due to lack of money,,,,,,,, for those homeless due to mental conditions, im not sure that racism plays a role, although poverty does,, as poorer people have less access to health care to treat their mental illnesses

Answer 2

If any given large amounts of people of "the wrong color" go into a certain area (ie a black man in deep South, or a white man in Watts, CA), and are unable to find jobs due to racism (and hence soon spend all of their money on mere survival) they will soon become homeless... as a result, their plight will increase racism as they look for illegal opportunities (ie drugs, theft, etc) to make money.

Since all the people of the "wrong color" in said community see are those criminals (without any balancing law-abiding citizens), it would therefore causing the cycle to minimally increase (in a sense, there is bound to be someone who begins to believe, "All of your people are criminals/lazy/other negative stereotype").

Given enough time, and enough vocalization of the racism, the poverty level (and therefore the homelessness) of "the wrong color" will increase as the people of "the right color" gain dominance.

Take, for instance, the slavery of blacks... someone, somewhere, got the brainy idea that blacks were less civilized, less evolved, less human than whites. Whoever this was spoke out about his beliefs, and others followed in suit. They refused jobs to blacks (save that of slave labor, not that that could be counted as a job...), and hence blacks' living conditions were less than ideal. After the civil war, blacks had their due American freedoms, but the view that they were not equal to whites still permeated society, and hence, up until MLKJ, many, if not most blacks had a hard time living up to their "equality", as jobs were denied to them, and hence, their poverty and homeless levels remained at high levels. It wasn't until more modern times where we see mass decline of racism, and hence more true equality between blacks and whites.

On the flip side of the coin, consider the concept of "restitution", and the oft spoken modern line of propaganda of "the whites took my job" (and as such, Affirmative Action). In some areas, as racism against whites increases (and therefore, more jobs are given to people of other skin colors), their poverty is increasing, and in time, so will their homelessness (and as a result, so will the racism against them).

However, this is not to say that racism is the only cause of poverty and homelessness. The majority of reasons that cause this is simply job loss, age, disability, chains of unfortunate circumstances, lack of supportive family members, poor local economy, desire for self improvement, and crime (either by being the criminal, or being the target of crime).

IMHO, Carlos Mencia put it best... in essence... "The blacks say 'the white took my job', the latinos say 'the white took my job', the asians say ' the white took my job', the women say 'the man took my job', and the the white man says 'the blacks, the latinos, the asians, and the women took my job'... If you didn't get a job, it's not because of what race you are... if the guy with who can't speak a word of intelligible English gets your job, think of how absolutely crappy *your* interview had to be".

We will never wipe out poverty and homelessness. But racism is something we can eliminate. The moment a racist person realizes that both he and the person he hates both bleed red, they both love their significant others, they both desire love and respect, they both are human beings created equally in the sight of God... then, and only then, do we take a step in the right direction.

When we learn, as a species, that God did not create seperate races, but rather one single race, of humanity, and that every one of us are decendants of Adam and Eve, and that we are all brothers and sisters... when we realize we are one family, instead of believing that one race evolved quicker than another, or believing that one race is more civilized than another... then racism can stop. When we eliminate self-righteous, haughty, arrogance from humanity... we eliminate racism. And by doing so, we will have taken a huge leap in eliminating poverty.

Answer 3

Oppression: Societal and Governmental

Lack of exercising free will, fear, denial of the reality of choice, lack of spiritual guidance and possible refusal to acknowledge spirit within......

Bait and Lure:
Overabundance of freebies and the abuse of usage...spoiling stunts a person's growth and leads people to believe there are no other options. Truth: people go thru trials. Truth: People, at times need temporary assistance, most importantly food. However, what exactly is luring people to believe "trials" are not something people usually accept or enjoy living in for the rest of ones life?

Political Target - Human beings used to obtain votes <-----I see this as a form of organized crime and zero empathy towards mankind.

Answer 4

because race plays a big role in the life experiences of a person when they are growing up. these life experience tranlates to whther or not you have skills and/or expeience to get a decent paying job. without a decent paying job, you have almost no oppportunity to better your education once you are stuck in the rut.
that rut is poverty.

race has no more to do with it actually, than the tendency for different races to live together in communities that are a reflection of their income and the people they feel comfortbale around. this typically is one's own race.
afterall, all races have the same chance or lack of, to not be able to acquire life experiences that prepare them for the labor market.

just statistically though, white appear to be more successful than minorities. race may play a small role in that now, but i think that relates to who you know rather than what color you are.

Answer 5

owners of businesses that are racist will not hire certain people those people cannot afford food ,clothing ,health care nor the basic essentials to live as they should , it doesn't have to be just about the color of ones skin either it could be a physical or mental handicap or physical appearance, hair length, body piercings anything at all that causes someone not to be hired for a job

Answer 6

One is bias based on religion beliefs or ethnicity (racism) and not related to the other two, which reflect an economic standard.

Answer 7

take blacks for instance, blacks are usually discriminated against because of color and stereotypes. in some parts of the country it is still hard for some blacks to get fair treatment at jobs because of discrimination, therefore resort to other means of employement, or obtaining money..i.e. selling drugs, welfare, etc.
no job, no money, which leads to poverty.
inadequate housing, awareness of other means of taking care of themselves leads to homelessness.
so these three things are connected because of unfairness, lack of monetary means, lack of adequate housing and then homelessness.
this not only applies to just blacks, but people in general.

Answer 8

Poor people are usually racist, and they like to burn down houses, which leaves people homeless.

Answer 9

poverty and homelessness effect ALL races, don't be so ignorant