White people who grow up in the ghetto (employment, drug, Hispanic)
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I have a number of posts on this forum about these whites who, simply by virtue of the ethnicity, are penalized by Affirmative Action. More affluent whites are unaffected and more affluent blacks (see Obama girls) are given a place in line ahead of these poor white males whose only crime was being born poor and white. It's not right.
I don't think it's right either and I'm black. I come from an upper middle class family and I've never seen so many white ghetto dwellers until I moved to this city.
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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I have a theory and it goes like this: MOST poor whites tend to live in more rural areas of the country and the media- such as TV tend to be concentrated in large city centres. If they need a story about poor people, it is easier to just go to the black ghetto which is much closer to find the story. There are some cities such as Chicago where Uptown had large numbers of Appalachian whites who were poor but in most places they tend to be rural.
If you want an example of ghettos which had white residents consider the lower east and west side of New York 60-70 years ago. One the west side was Hell's Kitchen with its Irish ghetto and on the east side was Little Italy and the Jewish ghetto. I remember a time when a lot of the Northeast was off limits to Italians and Jews because these people were viewed as sub-humans who smelled bad and were too ignorant to learn who to speak english properly.
New York still has ghettos and their new inhabitants have the same dreams as the Irish, Italian and Jewish people who preceded them.
I have never seen White people living in section 8 housing projects. All of the section 8 housing projects I have seen resemble a Little Africa, because it is either all Black or overwhelmingly Black. Most poor Whites tend to live in rural areas, far from the innercity.
Poor whites live in decrepit trailer parks and white areas of large cities. Next time you're in Detroit head over to Michigan Ave and Sharon. It's less than a mile from Arab East Dearborn, but you would think you landed on another planet. It's a good place to not be.
Kid Rock comes from a wealthy family. We're not talking about him.
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