Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Discrimination
I was doing the reading for Chapter Seven today, which was discussing African Americans. I came across apart of the reading that really interested me so I decided to blog about it and see what other people thought. In the text it states, "The most evident, persistent, and consequential forms of racial discrimination in American society are found in the area of housing" (Marger 192). This shocked me, but once I kept reading it began to make sense. Having discrimination in housing touches every other type of discrimination. If African Americans are oppressed by where they live it will have an impact on the school they can attend, the type of jobs that are available to them, the times of stores, hospitals, and transportation. Every aspect of an individuals life revolves around where they live. This has never occurred to me before. maybe I wasn't educated about it, or maybe I was just blind to it. Also, because there is a lot of discrimination in housing, it maintains a separation between whites and African Americans which, in my opinion, only continues the discrimination. So my question is: why isn't anything being done to stop the discrimination in housing?
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ReplyDeleteWhy isn't anything being done to stop the housing discrimination? For a number of reasons because many people feel like letting certain people of diffrent minorities into white neighborhoods will make turn them into "ghetto". Plus the individual realestate agencies have a "right" to deny thier services to whom they please. Or they only make known to thier minorities clients whom are looking for houses, only about certain houses in certain neighborhoods. Also the "equal opportunity housing" along with the creation of housing projects and such are all other means of keeping minorities of people in thier "place." It keep them marginalized. I am also convinced now more then ever that the goverment documents such as the census helps make this process of annexing based on race and ethnicity possible. I am also more so concerned with this issue now that Im going to be actively looking for housing in New York city after graduation. Yes something must be done about this issue.Many people dont know this is an issue. And some are happy with status quo.
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