Comments by "Brenda Rua" (@brendarua01) on "Why the "wrong side of the tracks" is usually the east side of cities | Stephen DeBerry" video.

  1. I hope you realize that this says more about your intelligence than about TED or the presenter.
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  2. RealEstateInsider247  Dude, you're approaching trolling here. But I think you are serious so I'll give it a go. I'm not sure what to address, but I think you've adjusted to your main point, knee jerk dog barking about the free market and legislation determining who lives where. You need to read The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. He covers the great migration of blacks to the north, something primarily due to Jim Crow. There were "Jim Crow" laws on the books that touched on tons of things up until the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Presently, you won't find deliberate discrimination like that taking place. So you are mostly right in saying discrimination doesn't play into who lives where. But you still have the legacy effects of it in housing and education.
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  3. It's been a lot better since the paper mill was forced to manage their pollution. Still got the Bay though.
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  4. Oh come on. You have to know that Seattle has many factors to explain this. That makes it an exception to the rule but doesn't affect the general pattern.
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  5. SevenRiderAirForce  Rider You are welcome to your opinion. But that is all you offer other than a suggestion for a read. (I will look into it, thanks.) This suggests that your comprehension level is critically low. This would explain how you might be bored and miss the point. The presenter noted a trend where the east side of cities are more likely to be poor than not, and then offered a reason why. This is a scientific presentation in that it can be tested and replicated via open and accessible data. TED viewers cry for this. A reasonable person would address the data and conclusions drawn. You're just bored. That's so sad. If you want a book more directly on point of the topic I suggest The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. Norton and Co.
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  6. Rider Yuhuh. And you miss mine. I think we're done.
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  7. Ok, and which direction does the wind blow down there?
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  8. Nutcase. He's talking about the prevailing wind due to jet stream. That covers the US and the whole world. It may be those cities have local weather patterns that go against the norm here. After all, any place can have winds from any direction from day to day. That's all you are seeing.
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  9. Ravie Ummm We have no disagreement. The presenter is talking about trends. Of course there are cases that will be different. I happen to have lived in the Seattle/Tacoma area which is one of the examples, so I knew the scenario. The rich live upwind.
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  10. This makes a lot of sense. And I admire DeBerry's handling of the de jure and structural aspects of racist policy by government at all levels. That wasn't his main point after all. The quite substantial history of this can be found in the book The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein.
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