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ChrisFromLongIsland t1_iw8lzq8 wrote

Reply to comment by marketingguy420 in In New York City, Racial Equity Ballot Measures Passed by a Wide Margin by GoPikachuGo1

What are some polices that can address the actual problems that cause the lack of representation?

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marketingguy420 t1_iw8o4df wrote

Everything the McCone commission outlined after the Watts riots 60 years ago.

They found, after doing an actual study, that poor housing conditions, poor educational opportunities, bad public infrastructure & bad job conditions created systemic instability, poverty, and crime in black communities.

Those systemic problems of essentially what is segregation are what lead to systemic underrepresentation in elite political and business roles.

If you want to fix that, America needs to pass a second reconstruction. That will never happen, nor will anything close to it. So these systemic problems will remain and occasionally explode over in massive violence every 20-30 years.

And in the meantime, we'll get lots of lib solutions: committees to analyze the committee for analysis on racial equity in committees. And lots of reactionary conservative solutions: bootstraps and more cops.

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drpvn t1_iw8p0vx wrote

Why waste all these words? Just say you want quotas.

Edit: I re-read your comment and thought about it and I tend to agree with your main point that the only thing that could substantially narrow disparate outcomes for black Americans versus other Americans is something like a second Reconstruction. I also agree it’s unlikely to happen.

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HEIMDVLLR t1_iwc7tui wrote

> Black Americans

According to the conservatives, Obama’s election was the beginning and ending of the second Reconstruction aka “Post-Racial” era.

The new Jim Crow era helped Trump get elected and gave birth to the new souther strategy which is trying to push a presidential run for Ron DeSatan.

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