Racism is The Reason Rich Blacks in Prince George's County are locked out of wealth (Baltimore: houses, neighborhood)

[G1..]

Originally Posted by skeddy

nah, he just has low standards

A Man with standards . Fixed it for you.

[EdwardA]

Originally Posted by selhars

Are you saying ALL schools in PG are abysmal?
No qualifier? Just a blanket statement?
Saying "some" schools, or "many" schools, or "most" schools would be more reasonable.

Just going by test scores at the high school level, yes. Roosevelt is a decent school but even here its test scores are rather middling compared to suburban Virginia schools.

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by EdwardA

Roosevelt is a decent school but even here its test scores are rather middling
compared to suburban Virginia schools.

How does it do when compared with other MAGNET schools?
And do they also focus science, mathematics, technology, and engineering?

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by MrRational

How does it do when compared with other MAGNET schools?
And do they also focus science, mathematics, technology, and engineering?

You have to break it down further than that. Roosevelt is a S&T magnet but also is a comprehensive high school servicing the attendance area. While students have to test in to the S&T program the rest of the school population goes there because that's their zoned high school.

So to compare ER to a dedicated magnet school where everyone tests in would be not an accurate comparison.

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

You have to break it down further than that.

Okay. How many of the ~2600 students are S&T?
If half are...

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by MrRational

Okay. How many of the ~2600 students are S&T?
If half are...

I think around 1/4 to 1/3.

[kcmo]

Originally Posted by Jasminehicks2020

Even though woodmore has 33% of blacks that make over 250,000 a year ,home values are just on average, 400,000 ...proves blacks lower home values, despite class, shows racism is baked in the system, and proves blacks can not live in black communities and build wealth, whites buy homes to build wealth, blacks buy homes to live with blacks of similar backgrounds because racism of government policies created this even if laws change

This cannot be blamed on bad schools because there are plenty of rich white communities surrounded by bad school districts, but that doesn't effect home values,

This cannot be blamed on crime because wood more doesn't have a lot of crime, Buckhead Atlanta has even more crime, but their home values are fine

While I'm not going to disagree with you, I think the main reason home values didn't increase in PG country compared to similar white areas of similar economics had more to do with the housing bust. Minorities were taken advantage of and given loans they had no business having, over paying for homes etc at far greater rates than blacks. So when the real estate market crashed, places like PG county where hit much harder and home values have taken far longer to bounce back.

[seanlax]

Originally Posted by kcmo

While I'm not going to disagree with you, I think the main reason home values didn't increase in PG country compared to similar white areas of similar economics had more to do with the housing bust. Minorities were taken advantage of and given loans they had no business having, over paying for homes etc at far greater rates than blacks. So when the real estate market crashed, places like PG county where hit much harder and home values have taken far longer to bounce back.

I would be very curious to see which factor has had a greater impact on the county. I don't know how that would be measured. But its definitely a combination of the two at the very least.

And before someone comes barging in here with 'uhhh, they chose those risky loans blah blah...", may I point you towards a mountain of evidence that suggests having no other options or being victims of fraudulent tactics. Based partly on geography but mostly because of race.

https://www.urban.org/sites/default/...D-C-Region.PDF

(note the date on that one)

https://www.aclu.org/files/field_doc...lend_final.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/u...anted=all&_r=0

Wells Fargo agrees to $175 million settlement in pricing discrimination suit - tribunedigital-baltimoresun

https://www.curbed.com/2018/3/13/171...ir-housing-act

https://www.epi.org/publication/lati...ime-mortgages/

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files...6-11_FINAL.pdf

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/in...?noredirect=on

[Baghead]

uhh, they chose those risky loans, blah blah. Satisfied? Government enacts laws essentially against denying credit ---> loans issued ---> loans packaged into securities ---> lender has no skin in the game, accelerates loaning to everyone and their mother ---> securities spread through world economy ---> etc. etc. etc.


Yes, the banks knew what they were doing. But the person signing on the dotted line is not a babe in the woods or forced against the wall to take the money... it was just extremely irresistible to do so, especially when they are told that real estate never goes down or that they need to buy a house RIGHT NOW or you won't be able to get a million dollar starter home in three years.

[skeddy]

stupid people make stupid financial decisions.