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The history of America still has impact on todays society and can not be ignored. Back in the 1930s when African Americans were not treated equally in the banking systems and in home ownership. This left to a slide of poverty in African Americans that we still see and now view the area in which are highly African American populated to be seen as ghettos and low. In even todays society these loans and homeownership agreements requires great deals of money in which people do not have. These divides in neighborhoods lead to a divide in race. White Americans tread hard to avoid these African American neighboorhoods in stereotypical fear.

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TNC focuses in on North Lawndale, a neighborhood in Chicago, to make his point. But it's a similar story across the country.

North Lawndale is an extreme portrait of the trends that ail black Chicago. Such is the magnitude of these ailments that it can be said that blacks and whites do not inhabit the same city. The average per capita income of Chicago's white neighborhoods is almost three times that of its black neighborhoods. When the Harvard sociologist Robert J. Sampson examined incarceration rates in Chicago in his 2012 book, Great American City, he found that a black neighborhood with one of the highest incarceration rates (West Garfield Park) had a rate more than 40 times as high as the white neighborhood with the highest rate (Clearing). "This is a staggering differential, even for community-level comparisons," Sampson writes. "A difference of kind, not degree." ...

Black people with upper-middle-class incomes do not generally live in upper-middle-class neighborhoods. Sharkey's research shows that black families making $100,000 typically live in the kinds of neighborhoods inhabited by white families making $30,000. "Blacks and whites inhabit such different neighborhoods," Sharkey writes, "that it is not possible to compare the economic outcomes of black and white children."

Even here in California, where sometimes we like to imagine maybe things were different.

A few years ago, I came across an academic project to take the old redlining maps and lay them over the cities as they are today in Google Maps. It was run by an interdisciplinary group out of the University of North Carolina. They created a site called T-RACES, or Testbed for for the Redlining Archives of California's Exclusionary Spaces.

I stared and stared at the map of the East Bay because I could see the marks of this discrimination all over the city. My little neighborhood sits right next to a block of red, in a yellow strip, and near a swath of blue. It was an in-between zone, and it still feels that way. Go a few blocks west (downhill) and the neighborhoods are primarily black. Go a few blocks east (into the hills) and the neighborhoods are almost exclusively white.

T-RACES was meant to be a demonstration project, and it looks that way. The maps are difficult to navigate and just have a clunky feel. When I tweeted about them, a data artist named Josh Begley took it upon himself to recode the maps with new technology. And then-after Google broke the way he was doing it-he recoded the maps again for this post.

There are maps for the Bay, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, Sacramento, Fresno and Stockton. I've included Los Angeles here, too, but the rest are available at his site.

The point is: the racist policies TNC explores in Chicago were everywhere.

Here are the codes for the maps:

"Green areas are " hot spots"; they are not yet fully built up. In nearly all instances they are the new well planned sections of the city, and almost synonymous with the areas where good mortgage lenders with available funds are willing to make their maximum loans to be amortized over a 10-15-year period -- perhaps up to 75-80% of the appraisal. They are homogeneous; in demand as residential locations in "good time" or "bad"; hence on the upgrade".

"Blue areas, as a rule, are completely developed. They are like a 1935 automobile still good, but not what the people are buying today who can afford a new one. They are the neighborhoods where good mortgage lenders will have a tendency to hold loan commitments 10-15% under the limit."

"Yellow areas are characterized by age, obsolescence, and change of style; expiring restrictions or lack of them; infiltration of a lower grade population; the presence of influences which increase sales resistance such as inadequate transportation, insufficient utilities, perhaps heavy tax burdens, poor maintenance of homes, etc. "Jerry" built areas are included, as well as neighborhoods lacking homogeneity. Generally, these areas have reached the transition period. Good mortgage lenders are more conservative in the Yellow areas and hold loan commitments under the lending ratio for the Green and Blue areas.

"Red areas represent those neighborhoods in which the things that are now taking place in the Yellow neighborhoods, have already happened. They are characterized by detrimental influences in a pronounced degree, undesirable population or infiltration of it. Low percentage of home ownership, very poor maintenance and often vandalism prevail. Unstable incomes of the people and difficult collections are usually prevalent. The areas are broader than the so-called slum districts. Some mortgage lenders may refuse to make loans in these neighborhoods and other will lend only on a conservative basis."

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The Racist Housing Policy That Made Your Neighborhood

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TNC focuses in on North Lawndale, a neighborhood in Chicago, to make his point. But it's a similar story across the country. North Lawndale is an extreme portrait of the trends that ail black Chicago. Such is the magnitude of these ailments that it can be said that blacks and whites do not inhabit the same city.

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The divide between impoverished and wealthy is shown in this article. The lack of knowledge between cultures. Unbelievable stories of African Americans being published had the world shocked. It was blatant racism in a way caused an uproar and scream for help but also brought unwanted attention of how blacks are living. The fact people (mostly whites) believed these stories show the lack of knowledge of how they actually live and just outcasts them and makes them look like harmful beasts.

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Ten years ago today, the presidency of George W. Bush took a fatal hit. Yes, the bog-down in Iraq hurt, but the most devastating single photo of his administration showed him looking out the window as his plane flew over Katrina-flooded New Orleans as he returned to Washington after vacationing at his ranch in Texas. Bush should have been on the ground, as he was in New York City soon after Sept. 11, 2001.

Left-wing mediacrats made that photo their poster for rich people not caring about poor people, or whites not caring about blacks. At a congressional hearing later in 2005, many New Orleans residents charged that racism caused delays in Katrina relief and rescue. They were right, but they misidentified the culprit.

Delays came partly because some politicians and journalists painted a portrait of impoverished, overwhelmingly African-American masses of flood victims resorting to utter depravity, randomly attacking each other as well as police and rescue workers dispatched to protect and save them. Black politicians denigrated black residents: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin spoke of "hundreds of armed gang members killing and raping people" inside the Superdome and said many of his constituents were in an "almost animalistic state." Police Chief Eddie Compass spoke of "little babies getting raped." Political organizer Randall Robinson said the "thousands of blacks in New Orleans ... have begun eating corpses to survive."

Even those who see cannibalism as benign don't think it happens after four days. It didn't take that long for media hysteria to spread. CNN's Paula Zahn spoke of "literally, people walking around in feces" and "bands of rapists going block to block." Her colleague, Chris Lawrence, raved about "mothers with their babies literally living in raw sewage ... helicopters are literally just completely surrounded the city ... people are literally dying at the Convention Center. ... There have literally been groups of young men roaming the city, shooting at people."

These stories, at best metaphorical but largely mendacious, literally led to good ratings. Facts had a hard time catching up. Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan later said four murders had occurred in the entire city during the week after Katrina hit, which made it an average week, but from press reports he thought "at least 40 or 50 murders had occurred." New Orleans Times-Picayune editor Jim Amoss later complained about "classic urban myth" and said that if media had been speculating about the behavior of "middle-class white people its hard to believe that these kinds of myths would have sprung up so readily."

When Wolf Blitzer on CNN at the end of Katrina week said, "Had this happened in a predominantly white community, the federal government would have responded much more quickly," he was probably right. Had politicians and reporters not made racist, false assumptions about black behavior, rescuers would not have thought their operations demanded military precaution rather than humanitarian speed. Had commanders not seen the need to arrive at the Convention Center with overwhelming force, in the media-driven expectation that residents would shoot at them, they would have been able to evacuate people from there a day earlier.

The New York Times was one of the exaggerators, but at least on Sept. 29, 2005, it reported that "the most alarming stories that coursed through the city appear to be little more than figments of frightened imaginations." Hype was not a victimless crime. It slowed down rescue work. Two patients died while waiting for evacuation helicopters grounded for a day by false reports of sniper fire. And yet, instead of emphasizing the need for accurate reporting, NBC's Brian Williams told his national audience that the hurricane would "necessitate a national discussion on race, oil, politics, class, infrastructure, the environment, and more."

George W. Bush came to New Orleans this past weekend. He's said that he could have done better a decade ago. Many reporters have not been so honest. If you're interested in more on this subject, you can read a book of mine that Thomas Nelson published a year after the hurricane hit: The Politics of Disaster: Katrina, Big Government, and a New Strategy for Future Crisis.

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The real racism exposed by Hurricane Katrina

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Ten years ago today, the presidency of George W. Bush took a fatal hit. Yes, the bog-down in Iraq hurt, but the most devastating single photo of his administration showed him looking out the window as his plane flew over Katrina-flooded New Orleans as he returned to Washington after vacationing at his ranch in Texas.

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Poverty isn't a lack of character; its a lack of cash. Ted Talk. 

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Poverty isn't a lack of character; its a lack of cash. Ted Talk. 

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Poverty itself holds people down in America. In the farmer harvest study it is a clear mental issue between being poor, and not. Being poor is compared to the IQ of a person running on no sleep, or an alcoholic. The idea of giving money to the poor in this American society, just does not work, we have assistant programs, but poverty is still an issue. Poverty leads to less education, struggling to make ends meet at home, less nourishment. We tell these people, just do better, work harder, but in this society it is not that easy.

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Transcript of "Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash"

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TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: "Ideas can and do change the world," says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the idea's 500-year history and a forgotten modern experiment where it actually worked -- and imagine how much energy and talent we would unleash if we got rid of poverty once and for all.

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The widening gap between socioeconomic status and mortality

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The widening gap between socioeconomic status and mortality

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Economic status has a direct link to mortality in a major majority. Poverty has a link to health in many ways. Whether it be hospital care, medication, etc. There is a link in this issue and education, which all starts with our economic status. There is a clear statistic between uneducated African American death rates, and educated white American death rates, with the rate being higher for the uneducated poverty stricken African American. people who are poorer and poorly educated have higher death rates than wealthier and better educated people.

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Family socioeconomic status, parent expectations, and a child's achievement

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Family socioeconomic status, parent expectations, and a child's achievement

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Economic status has a direct correlation to schooling and education. Places with a high level of poverty, in rural areas, and with a high population of minority students. So this leads to an educational divide between races. Educational importance is different between the races, because blacks are subdued to poverty in a more substantial number. In white based communities they seem to value education more and in minority impoverished communities they value it less which leads to duller schooling and a divide. There is a clear correlation between schooling and achievement. With less education prioties and opportunities in minority run, poor communities it leads to a divide in people.

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This slam poet expresses how the "African American" way of talking is seen as threatening and uniting to the white community. I see this poem as a push for creativity and to not let society bring you down. He gives us a brief view into the life of an African American. While telling the next generation to let life guide you and do what you love.

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Saul Williams (Ft. DJ Krust) - Coded Language

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Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic community to its drum woven past / Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to

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This CBS clip makes you really realize the separation of cultures between white and black. They talk about how they depicted their characters of how they thought black people lived as if they were alien foreigners. It pans to the again blind racism in todays society and lack of knowledge of history as modern day people put on blackface. African Americans view this as hateful of course and their are the white people that view it that way as well, but their are the white americans that think of it as a joke or no big deal, such as Megan Kelly. When you are the majority it is easy to look down on the minority and tell them to "get over it".

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Blackface: A cultural history of a racist art form

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White privilege has been around for a very long time. It is a cultural thing and not just a wealth standpoint. Its about a favoritism in society towards whites. Over the generations whites have seemingly been privileged. I believe white privilege is a thing in society but it is not as strong as it used to be. As racism has gone down in America white privilege has gone down but has not disappeared. I feel as if some people just feel more comfortable around the white man and it leads to a bias and blind racism.

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Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more with Google Drive.

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This Ted Talk talk I mostly found reflected on just World culture and how we have developed one perception toward a race. We categorize hard in America towards other countries and continents. We see a lot of blind racism. Not mean, or intentional, but pity towards someone just for there race and assuming they know less because of where they are from or the color of their skin, or the way they talk.

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Please [contact us](https://www.ted.com/contact) and let us know what happened.

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Why I, as a black man, attended KKK rallies. Ted Talk. 

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Why I, as a black man, attended KKK rallies. Ted Talk. 

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This Ted Talk was all about a man trying to find reason behind racism. I think the way this man tried to use reason, and non violent manners was able to win over racism. He told us that the Klan leader soon stepped down and I think it was partially from the encounter with this African American man. He also went into how children are not born racist, they are molded. He tells us this through his own personal story of how he first encountered racism and how the Klan leader explained how his perspective would not change because he was molded this way. He also talks about mutual respect however and how that can make all the difference.

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Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies. | Daryl Davis | TEDxNaperville