Woke people complain bitterly about the achievement gap, wealth disparities, and the fact that Black People were historically redlined out of certain neighborhoods. They are right to point out these historical injustices, and their impact on Black People today.
However, they seem to have a blind spot when they complain about "gentrification". They complain bitterly about "those people" moving into "their neighborhoods" and driving up property values, which pushes the poorest people out of the neighborhood. They're pushing for quotas, limits of non-Black people who can live in those neighborhoods. Do they not see that a policy like that will only serve to drive down property values, and starve the schools of much-needed revenue from property taxes? Do they not see that their animosity toward "those people" is not unlike the racism their ancestors were subjected to? It's essentially reverse redlining!
When I point this out, most woke people switch tactics to mandating affordable housing for any new construction. That's fine, but do they not realize that such a cost would be passed along to the buyers of the property, thereby increasing the property values and driving poor people out of the area?
But what about the affordable housing? Most urban and suburban areas having waiting lists that are years long to get on affordable housing. Also, it is not guaranteed that local people will get that affordable housing unless they receive preferential treatment on the waiting list. But that amounts to basing rental applications on the race of the applicant! Not only is that a violation of many laws, but it's the very thing we fought against as a society, and still fight against it to this very day!
As you can see, most of the woke policy prescriptions result in racist discrimination against anyone who isn't Black. That violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment to the constitution. You know, one of the amendments that laid out "equality before the law" as the law of the land.
Ibrahim X. Kendi is an outspoken proponent of the idea of retaliatory discrimination. In his steaming pile book, How to Be An Anti-Racist", he explicitly lays out discrimination against White people as a preferred policy. "The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination", is a direct quote from his "how to" book. I sold the copy that was blind-mailed to our house after reading it, so I can't give a specific chapter or page. Sorry.
Keep in mind, this guy admits to previously believing that White People are extraterrestrials, as in aliens from outer-space. I applaud him for admitting that, but moving from extraterrestrials to "different breed of human" isn't much of an improvement. He does stand against the notion that Black people can't be racist. So, hopefully he is smart enough to eventually see the problems with his policy prescriptions.
Ultimately, I believe the anti-gentrification nonsense is yet another socialist hairbrained theory that is doomed to failure. Unfortunately, I think it will do a lot of damage to race relations, and probably end up costing Black People a lot in the long run.
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