Charlottesville VA

[GustavoFring]

Originally Posted by tbone88888

Public schools receive financial aid from local, state and the federal government..no?

Also, I dare you to compare the number of black students in CHS vs WAHS.

Again, its not a C'ville thing. It happens everywhere. Rich people figured it out long ago. With high property prices and property taxes, you can basically control who lives near you, who attends your schools, etc.

High property prices are driven up by demand. When people with more money choose to live somewhere, housing supply goes down as demand goes up, and prices rise because people will pay a premium not to be stabbed, mugged or raped. How dare people that have made a decent life for themselves want to ensure they can raise their kids in a safe and convenient area? The audacity ! It's currently happening in Belmont, and that will be the end of the downtown ghettos as we know them.

[tbone88888]

Aye, and the demand for property in the western district is largely driven by the schools, and probably, the lack of section 8 housing.

And, sorry if I implied the government was directly sponsoring segregation..its just an unfortunate by-product of yet another failed government program.

[golgi1]

Originally Posted by zenzele

but historic structural and institutional racism is the issue here. for example, most black folks in Cville are employed in lowpaying service jobs.

It may surprise you that most white folks across the country are employed in low paying service jobs as well. That is the nature of industry and economy, as the relative level of skilled employment takes on a pyramid shape with 'low skilled workers' at the base everywhere and for every group. It is the nature of the beast that 'most' of any large group will be employed in low skill, low-wage jobs. You just don't see the white people in these jobs because you either choose to ignore them consciously or subconsciously, or they aren't brought to your attention because you don't socialize with them nor they with you. This is similar to the social mechanism by which most non-lower class white people don't socialize with the lower class black workers (or lower class white workers) - both black and white low skill workers are the bottom-out-of-site class. I happen to know for a fact that qualified black workers get preference for any and all federal government positions and for state positions (although I can't speak to all 50 states), and well as for many large corporation and private industry positions. The key word is 'qualified'. Unqualified whites don't have a leg up either. That good ol' boy in the practical class is going to be limited to Walmart the same as every other one of his academic peers. Hence, the institutional racism claim doesn't hold water unless you can point to two statistically significant groups of black and white workers with the same exact middle class caliber qualifications and prove a statistical difference in employment rates for the same area. You can't claim racism if the majority of the people that you are speaking about aren't qualified for anything other than the jobs that they have. Almost everyone goes to the same public schools and has the same opportunity to make it or break it in terms of preparation for adulthood.

also, gentrification of black neighborhoods

Sorry, but gentrification is a good thing. The process of gentrification essentially entails dumping money into a neighborhood to make it a nicer place to live (lower crime, better schools, better community resources, elimination of vacant housing, etc.). It's also an economic reality that comes with free market real estate sales and has nothing to do with race. The people in black neighborhoods can and should stay in their neighborhoods that are being gentrified around them to take advantage of the increased tax base that will provide a better secondary school experience for their children and perhaps give them a leg up on preparing for that professional job that you wish everyone to have. Most of the black people that I know choose to live in gentrified neighborhoods whenever it is convenient to do so.

is an issue as well as the racial profiling

Racial profiling is wrong. I'd be interested to know how many legitimate incidents of racial profiling occur in Charlottesville, though, on a daily basis.

criminilization of Black men and Black young people.

Criminalization is a personal choice. No one 'does' that to anyone else.

[usuario]

Originally Posted by golgi1

Criminalization is a personal choice. No one 'does' that to anyone else.

I didn't know that people who got caught doing a DWB ("Driving While Black") made a personal choice.

[GustavoFring]

Originally Posted by usuario

I didn't know that people who got caught doing a DWB ("Driving While Black") made a personal choice.

Duh , they drove

[MiddleClassAmericaDOTORG]

HI,

A Fellow Detroiter...I like that!

Anyways, Charlottesville is OK for minorities....heck they even made a whole committee for race relations recently I think.

Andrew

[martinchanged]

Is Charlottesville racist? Short version.....YES!!! Check the numbers. 12% black population in city. 60% black population in jail. No black Judges in City or Circuit Courts. No black Public Defenders. No black Prosecutors. Few black Police, and the white ones bear watching if you are black. Read a book called " The New Jim Crow." If the shoe fits....