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Wagbeard t1_is9valp wrote

Reply to comment by TimeFourChanges in Accepted (2021) - A school in Louisiana is celebrated for putting traditionally underserved students into Ivy League colleges, but an investigation uncovers its charismatic founder's controversial methods (CC) [01:22:56] by thesecondfire

> "The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society. Negros live in them, but they do not make them any more than a prisoner makes a prison".

MLK

https://youtu.be/8B4aJcP-ZCY

As a Canadian, this is driving me nuts. You guys were supposed to fix this crap generations ago and just be integrated and get rid of slums.

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skaqt t1_is9vvpq wrote

You mean like how Canada 'fixed' their Boarding Schools?

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Wagbeard t1_is9wqnx wrote

You're right but your government did the same stuff to your native demographic too to be fair. I'm talking about black people specifically. MLK liked Canada because we didn't have segregated black communities that your establishment exploits perpetually. The 'black' people in my neighborhood are just my neighbors and they go to the same schools as everyone else.

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sbsp13668 t1_isa2zha wrote

Not entirely true. Africville in Halifax was a segregated community that black people were forced to move to. I wouldn't be surprised if there were other major cities that had something similar in Canada. And, as for segregated schools, I remember when I was a kid hearing about the controversy of Toronto creating a school for black students, and it still exists: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/africentric-school-anniversary-1.5005262 However, at least Canadian colleges and universities don't have the same crazy acceptance policies for minorities as their American counterparts; which, as is shown in this documentary, do not set the students up for success.

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TheReaperSC t1_isaafff wrote

I work in a poor, rural area in the southern US. While it is only their opinion, the older black teachers I have worked with through the years have all said the problems around here started with the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. They remember government workers going door-to-door telling the young ladies they could get this, this, and this but they couldn’t have a man of the house. This is strikingly similar to how they proceeded when creating the Chicago high-rise housing complexes. 30 years later we had NAFTA take all the manufacturing businesses from our area. Add these things together and you have a majority of the population, whether white, black, or Native American, that doesn’t value education at all because they have never seen anyone use theirs. Some of my students are already 4th generation welfare recipients and have never seen anyone in their family work a steady job.

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barrygurnsberg t1_isaqd2v wrote

It’s called gentrification and the activists don’t like it.

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Wagbeard t1_isbn3ni wrote

Whatever you want to tell yourself. Bunch of racist dicks.

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My3rstAccount t1_isa62x2 wrote

Oh, my bad. I thought we were supposed to turn the suburbs into the slums. It's cheaper that way.

Also provides jobs to the illegal immigrants we don't want, so they can build fancier, more expensive, cheaper made houses. What a circle of life.

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