(07-18-2019, 05:34 AM)Jags Wrote:

(07-18-2019, 01:27 AM)Jagfan44 Wrote: I know this isn't going to be very popular but it just needs to be said.

I travel a lot, I am currently writing this message 1,000 plus miles away in San Antonio, Texas. I was just in Austin and before that Dallas/Fort Worth. Why is it that every time I drive through a black neighborhood, a white neighborhood, and hispanic neighborhood, I see the same things?It's the same everywhere I go from Texas to Chicago. Black neighborhoods are by far the worse, at times they feel dangerous. Trash everywhere, bad roads, liquor store on every corner, people always J walking and in general people are just lingering, doing little to nothing. White neighborhoods are typically always nice, well kept, kids outside riding their bikes even wearing helmets, nice cars and usually people walking for what appears to be the benefits of exercise, not as a means of transportation. Hispanic neighborhoods are usually somewhat dirty, though not as bad as the black neighborhoods, these neighborhoods are usually right in between.

One thing that is painfully obvious is that diversity does not exist, any part of any town, people who look similar always live next to one another.

So I just can't help but wonder but is this all the result of racism? Do people in black neighborhoods not take care of their belongings due to some type of discrimination? Why does this trend exist everywhere that I go? I'm not implying anything here, I just would like a straight answer. I would like to add that I was very happy to see a part of Atlanta that was all black that was very nice, I'm not sure what area of the city that was and I certainly saw lots of other bad areas but it was encouraging to see a black neighborhood that was well taken care of.

Not getting too far into this, I’m sure others will be chiming in.  But I’m willing to guess you’ve been through the low income areas of town.  It pretty much is the same city to city.  To be fair, trailer parks aren’t usually downtown.  That would be the low income equivalent for whites.  Those aren’t really a whole lot different than what you described.

True. Low income is low income regardless of who lives there. Different areas for different ethnicities make it look as different as it seems. 

I've seen white low income neighborhoods look just the same as the black and brown low income neighborhoods. It's a generational thing. Most people are a product of their environment and live how they were raised because they don't know any different. My neighbors two houses down are what you would consider "white trash" just by looking at the state of their home and property. Their daughters will likely have a home/apartment that will look the same. Or they may go the opposite direction and have an OCD-style immaculate home and that's usually a personality thing.

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