Whitey Ford
10-20-2020, 09:57 AM
Hopeless in Baltimore, ground zero of US 'urban apartheid'
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Demon Lane says his east Baltimore neighborhood will still be blighted by drug dealing, deadly gunfire, rat-infested vacant houses and hopelessness, no matter who wins America's presidential election in November.
His area is overwhelmingly Black, deeply poor and devastated by decades of neglect, which stands in stark contrast to the pricey condos, new stores and safe streets a few miles away in overwhelmingly white and affluent areas.
Baltimore is nearly two-thirds Black, yet it's also been ranked one of the nation's most segregated cities, where experts say the poorest African Americans are expected to live about two decades less than people in the wealthiest white districts.
Baltimore's troubles have been a political tool for President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly attacked the city that has been Democrat-led for decades, most recently calling it the "WORST IN NATION."
Wait for it. Wait for it. It's coming.
"Baltimore actually is ground zero for urban apartheid in America," researcher and activist Lawrence Brown said in an interview posted to YouTube earlier this year.
He noted that Baltimore's leaders passed the first residential racial zoning law in America's history in 1910, which said Black people could not move onto white-majority blocks and vice-versa.
You knew where this was heading. BLAME WHITEY! When all else fails, niggers must always screams raycissms and blame whitey.
"You can put all the Black Lives Matter flags that you want -- if you are white, you will still benefit from the system," Lanahan said.
"Wealth follows whiteness and blackness gets penalized and that's why things never change."
But for east Baltimore resident Edmond Hargrove, a 43-year-old African American, change isn't coming regardless of who has sworn to finally solve the neighborhood's misery.
"We're always forgotten. They promise us stuff... six months after, it goes right back to the way it was."
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201020-hopeless-in-baltimore-ground-zero-of-us-urban-apartheid
https://i.imgur.com/cN3x77a.jpg
Demon Lane says his east Baltimore neighborhood will still be blighted by drug dealing, deadly gunfire, rat-infested vacant houses and hopelessness, no matter who wins America's presidential election in November.
His area is overwhelmingly Black, deeply poor and devastated by decades of neglect, which stands in stark contrast to the pricey condos, new stores and safe streets a few miles away in overwhelmingly white and affluent areas.
Baltimore is nearly two-thirds Black, yet it's also been ranked one of the nation's most segregated cities, where experts say the poorest African Americans are expected to live about two decades less than people in the wealthiest white districts.
Baltimore's troubles have been a political tool for President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly attacked the city that has been Democrat-led for decades, most recently calling it the "WORST IN NATION."
Wait for it. Wait for it. It's coming.
"Baltimore actually is ground zero for urban apartheid in America," researcher and activist Lawrence Brown said in an interview posted to YouTube earlier this year.
He noted that Baltimore's leaders passed the first residential racial zoning law in America's history in 1910, which said Black people could not move onto white-majority blocks and vice-versa.
You knew where this was heading. BLAME WHITEY! When all else fails, niggers must always screams raycissms and blame whitey.
"You can put all the Black Lives Matter flags that you want -- if you are white, you will still benefit from the system," Lanahan said.
"Wealth follows whiteness and blackness gets penalized and that's why things never change."
But for east Baltimore resident Edmond Hargrove, a 43-year-old African American, change isn't coming regardless of who has sworn to finally solve the neighborhood's misery.
"We're always forgotten. They promise us stuff... six months after, it goes right back to the way it was."
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201020-hopeless-in-baltimore-ground-zero-of-us-urban-apartheid