Is Diverse really Diverse?

[saevel25]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-diverse-cities-are-often-the-most-segregated/

Interesting article on how the most diverse cities are actually the most segregated.

I am a fan of graphs and charts,

[RandallT]

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/14/406699264/historian-says-dont-sanitize-how-our-government-created-the-ghettos

Quote:

"We have a myth today that the ghettos in metropolitan areas around the country are what the Supreme Court calls 'de-facto' — just the accident of the fact that people have not enough income to move into middle class neighborhoods or because real estate agents steered black and white families to different neighborhoods or because there was white flight," Rothstein tells Fresh Air' s Terry Gross.

"It was not the unintended effect of benign policies," he says. "It was an explicit, racially purposeful policy that was pursued at all levels of government, and that's the reason we have these ghettos today and we are reaping the fruits of those policies."

In the past, we have used governments at all levels to create this segregation. Most of us want our government to be there to protect our rights to live wherever we want and ensure justice and equality in opportunities, but sadly, our history is one where we actively used our government to put in place this segregation that today we find so objectionable. It's a compelling interview.

[saevel25]

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/14/406699264/historian-says-dont-sanitize-how-our-government-created-the-ghettos

In the past, we have used governments at all levels to create this segregation. Most of us want our government to be there to protect our rights to live wherever we want and ensure justice and equality in opportunities, but sadly, our history is one where we actively used our government to put in place this segregation that today we find so objectionable. It's a compelling interview.

I can see that happening in the south back before the Civil Rights movements. Today I doubt this is a very common.

I do think today it is more economical over actual segregation.

[RandallT]

Quote:

Originally Posted by RandallT

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/14/406699264/historian-says-dont-sanitize-how-our-government-created-the-ghettos

In the past, we have used governments at all levels to create this segregation. Most of us want our government to be there to protect our rights to live wherever we want and ensure justice and equality in opportunities, but sadly, our history is one where we actively used our government to put in place this segregation that today we find so objectionable. It's a compelling interview.

I can see that happening in the south back before the Civil Rights movements. Today I doubt this is a very common.

I do think today it is more economical over actual segregation.

I agree re: today it being more economics than actual segregation. At the 7:00 mark for a few minutes, they discuss that.

The interviewee makes a good case that we should not think this was a case of only being in the South. He makes a compelling argument that even those "good" northerners were aggressive in their segregation policies. There is history with those "Levittowns" and public housing projects that was quite discriminatory, and deliberately so.