My Answer as to why Blacks have the problems that they have?

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This is my answer as to why Blacks have the problems that they have.

The bottom line, is that a simple majority of Blacks live in the South.
This is the area that hates them the most, that's the bottom line.
So they're living in an area of the country, and possibly in the world, that hates them the most outside of Apartheid-Era South Africa and Rhodesia.

They're in fact living in the part of the country, where the Government has the MOST control of the people.

There are many examples of this...

*The most Military veterans.
*The most usage of federal aid and therefore also the most vulnerability to Federal law and federal law enforcement.
*The most policies dictating conduct.
*The harshest sentencing guidelines.

*A Culture that empowers the Government, far more than it depletes it..

P.S. - I like southern politeness,it works for me far more...
But it is publicly enforced on many levels, by the Government, which costs money.

Southern politeness is probably also a symptom.
Fear of the Government which would be unfortunate, regardless of how well the concept of being polite works.

The South is also America's poorest region, and the region of the USA with the lowest academic standards, blacks suffer from this as well because most blacks live in the South.

The South has the USA's weakest gun control laws, making the South not only the epicenter of America's gun violence, but also where most of the Guns come from, that negatively affect ALL cities where Blacks live.

Mr. Smartypants · Accepted Answer

I can't disagree with anything you said.  But I don't think it's the whole story.  The KKK started in Illinois.  I grew up in Michigan, in a lilly-white neghborhood.  If you saw any black people anywhere near my neighborhood, back in the 1950s, it was a maid waiting for a bus.

Half or more of Trump's campaign was about race.  In his speech announcing his candidacy he talked of the govt. of Mexico sending murderers and rapists an drug dealers, and all through his campaign he 'dog-whistled' racist speech.  It wasn't just the South that voted for him!  It was traditionally relatively liberal states like Michigan and Wisconsin and Ohio that put him in the White House.  So, yeah, while the South is the worst, blacks are not equal to whites anywhere in the country!

At least Trump did us the favor of dragging racism out into the open so we can all see it.  For years the Republicans insisted that racism simply no longer existed, because we passed Civil Rights laws 50 years ago.  Now they can't say that anymore.  At least we know what we're up against.

In the 1930s, with the Depression, many people were defaulting on their mortgages and losing their homes.  The Fed. Govt. passed a law to help the unemployed with their mortgages, but first they got real estate people in every town to draw lines on maps showing where the 'nice' neighborhoods were.  They draw the lines in red pencil and today this practice is called 'red-lining'.  The 'nice' neighborhoods, of course, where the ones with racial covenants that didn't allow minorities to live in them!  But the houses that cost $10,000 in those days are now worth a million dollars!  This is why the average white family in the US is worth maybe half a million dollars, while the average black family is worth maybe ten thousand.  And this happened all across the country!  Redlining is illegal now but there are places where it still goes on.  Not just in the South!

Anonymous · Answer

I haven't seen an area they aren't equally hated in. not just south

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