Recent comments in /f/boston

Roszo21 t1_j6klid3 wrote

The unoccupied real estate thing is a really odd problem. You'd think with how valuable real estate is property wouldn't sit vacant, but when you start looking around for them, they're everywhere. There are three SFHs that have been empty long-term within a block of me. Two of them belong to elderly people in nursing homes without family and are just waiting for them to die. They've been vacant for years. The third had owners pass away and the kids are fighting over the list price for months.

9

[deleted] t1_j6kkv5r wrote

They are not white attributes. No human being is bestowed special powers because of their race. You don’t magically become a well informed being because your skin is a certain color.

There are however inequities perpetuated by our failing governments that happen to benefit white people disproportionally due to a history of slavery and religious justifications of that slavery which allowed our infrastructure to expel certain types of people from said benefits. After centuries of such practices it’s no question why there is a massive equity gap.

One disproportionate fact is the way black Americans are brutalized by the criminal legal system. That is what these protests are about. Not that we don’t respond to these problems (which credit to the US, with every decade it cares a bit more). It’s just that these such problems shouldn’t exist. At all.

0