Racial segregation has left its mark on the economic balance between minority groups, and white individuals. Many areas populated by a majority of colored individuals have the least economic opportunity to escape poverty. The imbalance of opportunity for minority groups has placed them at a disadvantage created through the separation of races. White people were the only race who had wealth during the times of segregation, and they did not want to settle in poor communities, so they created their own communities that flourished and left all the minorities behind. Our government often focuses on helping more white based communities because they pay taxes, and taxes is what our government runs on. Communities of color have some of the worst infrastructure,
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In the article “California 's Drought is About Economic Inequality”, Laura Bliss explains how, “Poor, unincorporated, predominantly non-white communities are the ones struggling”(2). She stresses this idea to explain how racial separation that was not even caused by historical segregation, because the majority of the population is Hispanic, still affects the amount of support minority groups receive from the government. For the overpopulated cities in the South the majority of colored individuals are centered in the middle of the cities while the white communities are surrounding them. In the article “Towards a Transformative View of Race: The Crisis and Opportunity of Katrina”, John a. Powell, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Daniel Newhart, and Eric Steins emphasize how, “It is not a coincidence that some of the poorest parts of New Orleans are also the places where the African-American population is very high”(4). The authors elaborate on this point to show how racial segregation affected African Americans by isolating them into certain regions with the least amount of opportunity. While the poorest communities are located in the center of the cities throughout the South, the most impoverished Hispanic communities here in California are secluded to the outskirts of the large cities with all the white communities in the center of
In the article “California 's Drought is About Economic Inequality”, Laura Bliss explains how, “Poor, unincorporated, predominantly non-white communities are the ones struggling”(2). She stresses this idea to explain how racial separation that was not even caused by historical segregation, because the majority of the population is Hispanic, still affects the amount of support minority groups receive from the government. For the overpopulated cities in the South the majority of colored individuals are centered in the middle of the cities while the white communities are surrounding them. In the article “Towards a Transformative View of Race: The Crisis and Opportunity of Katrina”, John a. Powell, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Daniel Newhart, and Eric Steins emphasize how, “It is not a coincidence that some of the poorest parts of New Orleans are also the places where the African-American population is very high”(4). The authors elaborate on this point to show how racial segregation affected African Americans by isolating them into certain regions with the least amount of opportunity. While the poorest communities are located in the center of the cities throughout the South, the most impoverished Hispanic communities here in California are secluded to the outskirts of the large cities with all the white communities in the center of