Levittown...built by systemic racism

[WillJ8787]

Source:
https://ushistoryscene.com/article/levittown/

The story of Levittown is the story of American Systemic Racism.

As most of us are familiar with the now famous neighborhoods in and around any US City...this is the legacy of systemic racism.

"Bill Levitt only sold houses to white buyers, excluding African Americans from buying houses in his communities even after. By 1953, the 70,000 people who lived in Levittown constituted the largest community in the United States with no black residents."

This is exactly what the Trump family did to black people.

Los Angeles's Latino/Latina neighborhoods
New York City's Harlem
Boston's Italian North Side
Philadelphia's Germantown
Chicago's Chinatown

This is what the legacy of segration, both forced and self- chosen, looks like if you were wondering how neighborhoods lie these came into existence.

It wasn't coincidence or happenstance!

 

[CornusKousa]

Yea...welcome to not the 50's anymore.

Time to move on bubba.

 

[WillJ8787]

Lack of education and awareness is why you don't get it.

In Minnesota or where ever you live....you will have neighborhoods.

They are the way they are as a result of this past...a past full of racism, discrimination and segregation. Your actions today are a result of what you did yesterday.

Your a racist and you practice racism.

And I've wasted enough time on what I consider dirt.

Time to up my $$$ donations to causes that make you run for the hills. Bye bye...racist....time is up.

 

[CornusKousa]

Lack of education and awareness is why you don't get it.

No the total lack of evidence that things are just as if not more racist today than in 1950 is why I "don't get it".

Welcome to 2021.

In Minnesota or where ever you live....you will have neighborhoods.

They are the way they are as a result of this past...a past full of racism, discrimination and segregation. Your actions today are a result of what you did yesterday.

To some extent....what's that got to do with anything today?? So what??

Your a racist and you practice racism.

Prove it...OHHHH you can't ya got NOTHING and this lame accusation that you can't support is all you've got to fall back on.

And I've wasted enough time on what I consider dirt.

Time to up my $$$ donations to causes that make you run for the hills. Bye bye...racist....time is up.

https://i.makeagif.com/media/2-04-2016/VrDLmY.gif

 

[RoryN]

This is exactly what the Trump family did to black people.

...because he learned it from Levitt.

Trump was in love with him and his philosophies:

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-boy-scouts-speech-william-levitt-party-2017-7

 

[WillJ8787]

"Prove it...OHHHH you can't ya got NOTHING"

I've proved it....how many times now? So many I've lost count.

 

[BeatMan]

In 2021 racism is not your biggest problem

 

[CornusKousa]

"Prove it...OHHHH you can't ya got NOTHING"

I've proved it....how many times now? So many I've lost count.

That statement is the closest thing to proving anything you've ever gotten.

You don't even have a point, you just rage that things were racist 70 years ago and a bunch of vague argument that inequity today proves it's all still here!!! Just hiding insidiously in whiteness!!!! Ohhh the white pwriviwige boogeyman!!

LOL no...it doesn't.

 

[icanhelp1]

Lack of education and awareness is why you don't get it.

In Minnesota or where ever you live....you will have neighborhoods.

They are the way they are as a result of this past...a past full of racism, discrimination and segregation. Your actions today are a result of what you did yesterday.

Your a racist and you practice racism.

And I've wasted enough time on what I consider dirt.

Time to up my $$$ donations to causes that make you run for the hills. Bye bye...racist....time is up.

^^^^^^^^

https://www.foxnews.com/media/bob-woodson-rejects-systemic-racism-class-race

FOX NEWS FLASHPublished June 2
Civil rights veteran Bob Woodson rejects claims of 'systemic racism,' says black struggles issue of class
By Sam Dorman | Fox

Civil rights activist Bob Woodson responds to riots: Race is being used as a ruse
Bob Woodson, founder of the Woodson Institute, joins Tucker Carlson with insight on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'

Former civil rights activist Bob Woodson issued a sweeping indictment Tuesday of both the Black Lives Matter movement and the idea that "systemic racism" is the cause of African-American hardship in the U.S.


"I don't know what systemic racism is. Maybe someone can explain what that means," he told "Tucker Carlson Tonight." Carlson responded by asserting that it was "a way to make people be quiet and stop asking questions about economics, as far as I can tell."

Woodson's interview came as protesters across America marched for another night to protest police brutality against George Floyd and other African Americans -- something many have described as a result of systemic or institutional racism.

Earlier in his interview, Woodson, a former head of the National Urban League Department of Criminal Justice, told Carlson that the civil rights movement promised that if black people led institutions, "all of black America would be better off."

Woodson told Carlson that he left the movement because he "realized that many of the people who suffered most -- poor blacks -- do not benefit from the change -- that they're demographics were used by some of those leaders."


"It's more class than it is race ... and now race is being used to deflect attention away from the failures of people running those institutions," he added. "The question is why are black kids failing in school systems run by their own people?"



"When Eric Holder was a U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., a lot of young people were shot by the police, but they were black police shooting black kids and not one was prosecuted. But there was no public outcry because as long as illegality or evil wears a black face, then it escapes detection and that's what's wrong with looking life through the prism of race."



Woodson also suggested that much of black suffering was the result of Democratic leadership.


"In the past 50 years, $22 trillion has been spent on poverty programs. Seventy percent goes not to the poor but those who serve poor people," he said.

"So many of those people taking office use this money to create a class of people who are running these cities, and now after 50 years of liberal Democrats running the inner cities, where we have all of these inequities that we have, race is being used as a ruse, as a means of deflecting attention away from critical questions such as why are poor blacks failing in systems run by their own people?"

On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Woodson who argued that hostility towards the police has hurt black people.

"The violence in Minneapolis elicits flashbacks of the rioters in Ferguson, Mo., after the August 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown," Woodson wrote.

 

[WillJ8787]

I agree that class is very important...I wouldn't be a liberal progressive if I didn't.

Class and race are intimately intertwined which makes solutions so much more complicated and why throwing money at the problem really isn't a solution at the moment.

Woodson is entitled to his opinions...he is well thought out so I can engage with his ideas even though I might not agree with all of them.

Systemic Racism is an overused and politically tossed about term that gets diluted and distorted...it doesn't mean though that it doesn't exist.

This entire Country( from before 1776 to now) is largely built on a system of oppression of many groups, some more than others and this way of thinking is hard to get ride of and has and continues to permeate through all our institutions. The first group to be oppressed were the first settlers from Europe(UK) by the King.

At the same time, they(our first settlers) where oppressing...

African slaves(blacks)
Indians(Native Americans)

Native Americans(90 million) died from disease from Europeans and the rest were placed in concentration camps.

Africans(black) continue to be oppressed to this day.

Irish were disriminated against and oppressed for a long time which didn't really abate until early to mid 20th century.

Eastern Europeans(from many Countries) where discriminated until the the mid 20th century.

Italians faced racism from early in the 20th century until as late as the 1970's

Mexicans(Latino/Latina) are the latest group to face racism and it's ongoing.

And all these groups have both directed racism at the others and received racism from the others.

If this is not a system designed to perpetuate racism I don't what would be.

It's extremely complex

 

[YDB95]

^^^^^^^^

https://www.foxnews.com/media/bob-woodson-rejects-systemic-racism-class-race

FOX NEWS FLASHPublished June 2
Civil rights veteran Bob Woodson rejects claims of 'systemic racism,' says black struggles issue of class
By Sam Dorman | Fox

Civil rights activist Bob Woodson responds to riots: Race is being used as a ruse
Bob Woodson, founder of the Woodson Institute, joins Tucker Carlson with insight on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'

Former civil rights activist Bob Woodson issued a sweeping indictment Tuesday of both the Black Lives Matter movement and the idea that "systemic racism" is the cause of African-American hardship in the U.S.


"I don't know what systemic racism is. Maybe someone can explain what that means," he told "Tucker Carlson Tonight." Carlson responded by asserting that it was "a way to make people be quiet and stop asking questions about economics, as far as I can tell."

Woodson's interview came as protesters across America marched for another night to protest police brutality against George Floyd and other African Americans -- something many have described as a result of systemic or institutional racism.

Earlier in his interview, Woodson, a former head of the National Urban League Department of Criminal Justice, told Carlson that the civil rights movement promised that if black people led institutions, "all of black America would be better off."

Woodson told Carlson that he left the movement because he "realized that many of the people who suffered most -- poor blacks -- do not benefit from the change -- that they're demographics were used by some of those leaders."


"It's more class than it is race ... and now race is being used to deflect attention away from the failures of people running those institutions," he added. "The question is why are black kids failing in school systems run by their own people?"



"When Eric Holder was a U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., a lot of young people were shot by the police, but they were black police shooting black kids and not one was prosecuted. But there was no public outcry because as long as illegality or evil wears a black face, then it escapes detection and that's what's wrong with looking life through the prism of race."



Woodson also suggested that much of black suffering was the result of Democratic leadership.


"In the past 50 years, $22 trillion has been spent on poverty programs. Seventy percent goes not to the poor but those who serve poor people," he said.

"So many of those people taking office use this money to create a class of people who are running these cities, and now after 50 years of liberal Democrats running the inner cities, where we have all of these inequities that we have, race is being used as a ruse, as a means of deflecting attention away from critical questions such as why are poor blacks failing in systems run by their own people?"

On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Woodson who argued that hostility towards the police has hurt black people.

"The violence in Minneapolis elicits flashbacks of the rioters in Ferguson, Mo., after the August 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown," Woodson wrote.

In other words, class matters as well as race. Duh.

 

[icanhelp1]

I agree that class is very important...I wouldn't be a liberal progressive if I didn't.

Class and race are intimately intertwined which makes solutions so much more complicated and why throwing money at the problem really isn't a solution at the moment.

Read some of his books., very illuminating!

We need to stop using the race card to enhance an argument that's not racism related.

Identity politics and class warfare are much more damaging than this illusion called systemic racism and white privilege.

 

[WillJ8787]

Read some of his books., very illuminating!

We need to stop using the race card to enhance an argument that's not racism related.

Identity politics and class warfare are much more damaging than this illusion called systemic racism and white privilege.

I will...I'm interested in talking more about this because it's important.