Essay On Residential Segregation

I found the article American Apartheid very interesting. The topic of residential segregation was the main focus point. The connection of segregation in the 70s and the 80s to present day is very shocking. It just shows that every cause has an effect. Even though the act of segregation ended in the 80s; the thought of it continues today. Separate but equal was never equal because of the history of American the stain of black and white continues to be an uphill battle. Blacks are the only race that hasn’t try to escape poverty. After the court hearing that established separate but equal is unconstitutional the thought of segregation was forgotten. Now that separate but equal isn’t allowed other problems came to surface that is still being ignored. Residential segregation is still being experienced in the black community. Blacks continue to live in ghettos which leave the blacks in the inner city and the whites in the suburbs. The government doesn’t promote the minorities to move out of the ghettos. They want them to stay in the ghettos, they do this by giving poor families with welfare and other incentives to stay where its cheap. The incentive
An area where mostly blacks live also anticipate that the hospitals and schools will mostly be operated by black leaving a uni-racial community. The social immobility is a cause as to why the black community still has not left the ghetto. People are usually affected by their surroundings it just depends if its negative or positive. In ghettos it is usually a negative effect on the community. Resulting in unemployment, violence, and poverty. Society developed this idea to blame the victim; meaning blame the black community for the conditions they live even though the people that are blaming put them in that condition. Residential segregation doesn’t stop at where they, it also is in their work place and educational