Why were black Americans forced to live like this as recent as the 1980s?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >spanish billboards

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nobody was "forced" to live like this. If they wanted to leave the ghetto they could walk into a recruitment office and get free housing free healthcare free college for life. Especially in the 70s and early 80s, the US military was extremely short staffed and thus open to anything that could stand and move boxes. But most didn't want to do that for the same reasons they didn't want to move to more prosperous areas of the country where there was work.

    The better question is: why were they allowed to live like this? The northern industrial belts left for the sunbelt, leaving only skilled/educated labor positions available. Meanwhile, America's urban cities hollowed out because nobody wanted to live there. Why would a self-respecting human want to live in a big city when they could live outside and commute in? Or move to the west coast, which is what most did. The cities shriveled up, eroded, and went bankrupt (or nearly did) as the death spiral of reduced taxes -> reduced services -> reduced population took hold. In the ruins were usually black people, who either couldn't afford to leave or didn't want to out of an inflated sense of place.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >If they wanted to leave the ghetto they could walk into a recruitment office and get free housing free healthcare free college for life
      Blacks were regularly denied from these positions in the military. You're a dipshit zoomer

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        probably because they're good for nothing

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          /pol/troony cope

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >no one was forced to live this way
      >btw I love living under a state which polices and forces you to work.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Black folk didn't pay rent and squatted in buildings and the city did nothing so landlords fled and stopped paying for the building and after a few years had to be demolished because the Black folk destroyed them beyond repair

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Revisionism. Landlords burned down derelict buildings to claim insurance payments.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Sounds conspiratorial.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          That's why it's a crime. It's actually one of the most common causes of arson.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Most fires aren't arson.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I don't know what this has to do with anything.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wow i thought the thing about black people LITERALLY tearing down buildings and destroying buildings was an exaggeration and that this urban decay was in spite of them not because of them. That's crazy. Why would people tear apart and destroy the place they reside in?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You're presuming it was measured behaviour, not merely impulsive.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >that this urban decay was in spite of them not because of them
        Urban decay happens regardless of the race of the city's inhabitants.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Because it's not theirs. There's a reason why nobody likes renting to blacks, they absolutely demolish the house

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It was their choice.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This is bait but the answer is systemic racism.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm not part of the system

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