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Like what?

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Jerry mandering

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structural poverty spanning generations, the legacy of redlining, a massive transfer of wealth out of the hands of the Black community, worse schools in the urban core, etc, etc, etc

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Reddit moment

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It’s different with racism, because it’s easier and cheaper to stop racist practices than it is to modify a building. And modifying a building isn’t hard or all that expensive.

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If you think that the problems (inequalities) racism brought ceased to exist with segregation, try learning about red-lining and how countless black neighborhoods got unfairly bulldozed to make space for highways. All that stuff happened only a lifetime ago, of course its effects can still be felt today.

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You could also use the same reasoning to argue that colonialism hasn’t really ended either, when the colonialists went home they still left behind the scars of centuries of exploitation, that shit doesn’t get washed away in a day.

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colonialism is also still enforced today - IMF loans that force austerity policies on receiving nations, coups that topple popular governments and replace them with dictatorships that are friendly to western interests, the fomenting of civil wars and conflicts that frequently genocide entire populations, the sale of arms and training to far-right militias. neocolonialism doesn’t involve direct rule but it’s merely the form that’s changed, not the character or the consequences.

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Wells Fargo to pay $175 million in race discrimination probe - Reuters (2012) And let’s not forget stuff like this happened just within the last 15 years.

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It should be noted any time there is a fine, what the company is worth. In this case Wells Fargo currently has a market cap of $160 billion.

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But on top of that, the previous owner raised the new one. On top of the hotel issue we now have the same issues, but with the new owner

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