Sorry, I got some racial stuff to put out.
Ta-nehisi’s article is amazing and good and powerful and real. But,
An unsegregated America might see poverty spread across the country, with no particular bias toward skin color.
I don’t believe this would happen. In some ways, segregation is the only way for communities to live together without ending up killing or ignoring each other. If racism exists and has made a community stronger than the other, which is the case across all multiracial societies and nations, the absence of segregation will not change anything. Segregation is one solution.
There is no segregation à la Chicago (you can replace that city with any multicultural US city; people try to make it like it’s just a local problem) in France. But racism is alive and the same terrible abuses happen, just at an atomic, individual level.
Which is very nasty. No one knows anything. Black people get robbed of rights thinking they’re lucky. There is no black community, black people in France are just fishes getting caught in nets they don’t understand. The only way to make it for a black man in Europe is to forget about yourself, your feelings, and coon and coon and coon. It’s one solution.
I don’t think anything will change at this point. White people, even the most against racism profit from racism, it is just a fact of living in a society all together. So you guys will never step up on this issue, you’d rather step up for animal rights. Those will not make you lose or pay anything.
Add the fact that global capitalism makes it really hard to anyone, if you try to tell struggling white people that they need to share because of centuries of abuse on black people, they will certainly not give a single fuck and will get mad (although they should get mad at questionable billionaires more me think), which is what is happening a bit everywhere.
Guilt is the least-efficient societal engine.