Comments by "Brenda Rua" (@brendarua01) on "How racism makes us sick | David R. Williams" video.

Once again we see the snowflake white males spasm in knee jerk reactions. I wonder how many even listened to the points presented. You show your ignorance of history and your own culture when you deny racism is both active now and we have current effects from history. But we can't have you too stressed by listening to the whole thing. Just take one point. Look at the 8:00 area where he talks about residential segregation by race. Mr. Williams talks about the effects but not the systems. This was blatant and intentional and not considered remarkable at the time. When the suburbs of the US were opened to expansion thanks to improved highway systems, the US Government established home mortgage policies to help make this possible. But applications by blacks (and other people of color, depending on the area of the country) were denied. These were actually marked as such. Now for the unintended but very real impact. Since most school districts are funded by property taxes, you have a very clear and unequal allocation of resources. It shows in quality of education opportunity between suburbs and inner cities. I don't think many people are saying we should keep inner city kids ignorant. But it is a result. And everyone pays for it. Think this is wrong? Well we can make a prediction to test it. Several cities, like Seattle and San Francisco, are experiencing huge growth as the financial and tech industries are drawing talent. These people don't want long commutes and can afford to pay very high prices to live in the rehabilitated upscale 'hoods. Home and rent prices are soaring as a result and driving out the poor and working classes. We can predict that before long the school funding sources will shift back to the cities and the suburbs will start to decline.
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