(08-16-2022, 11:47 AM)Talented Kalamari Wrote: Nobody wants to live in a high crime neighborhood. Also, saying that black kids need only black teachers is extremely racist.

Good thing that's not what I said.  
I said that it's desirable (but not needed) that a black kid has at least one black teacher during their elementary school years.  Reading comprehension is very low around here.

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(08-16-2022, 11:41 AM)NewJagsCity Wrote:

(08-16-2022, 11:02 AM)mikesez Wrote: It wasn't predominantly black, it was morenlike 30 or 40% black. And the houses were all new and well maintained.  My wife ended up getting a job offer much closer to my job at the time, and living near the interstate was no longer important.  
FWIW I live next to a predominantly Mexican area now.  Doesn't bother me.

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It sounds like you are working against racism in your area, so thank you for that.  You should be aware that many landlords steer black and Hispanic people to rundown and high crime properties while steering white prospects to lower crime properties.  If you're not doing that, great, but many do, and realtors too.

While violent crime like stabbings and shootings tends to accumulate in low income areas with gangs, the petty crime like breaking into cars is highly mobile.  I'm around 40 years old and I've parked overnight in many different neighborhoods.  The two times I've had my car broken into were both in higher end areas.  The cops in both cases said there was a wave of breakins attributed to teenagers living a few miles away, not neighbors.

I'm not 'working against racism'.  For me, as a 1st generation immigrant, it's about helping families who came to this country wanting to build better lives for themselves; who want a hand up and not a handout.  Not complaining about how this country hates them, while at the same time spitting in the face of all the opportunities it provides them, but happy to take whatever that same country will give them for free. Race has nothing to do with it.  If these people were lazy grifters who were mishandling the property or terrorizing the neighborhood, then I would  look for other tenants.  And if that ever happens, I will.

I understand what you are saying.  You are doing your best to simply ignore race in your dealings.  Which is certainly better than working against disadvantaged races. But what do you think other landlords and realtors are doing? Do you think all of them are being as race blind as you? Of course not.  So add it up.  If some rental housing is owned by racist landlords, and some rental housing is owned by non-racist landlords, what kind of society does that add up to?  A slightly less racist, but still racist society.  We need anti-racists to combat the racists if we want the sum of it to go to zero.  That doesn't have to be you, but it could be you.

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