Minneapolis had progressive policies, but its economy still left black families behind

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Structural racism persisted despite all the ‘good intentions,’ community advocates say

 

The Twin Cities once drew black families fleeing racism in the Jim Crow South, and with their combination of progressive policies and prosperity, regularly rank among the best places to live in America.

Taxes, for decades, have been redistributed from wealthy suburbs to poorer communities to combat inequality — an effort bolstered in recent years by raising state income taxes on the rich. The result: more money for schools, affordable housing and social services in lower-income neighborhoods.

 

But the prosperity fueled by the region’s Fortune 500 companies and progressive policies has not translated into economic equality. Instead, the wealth gap between Minneapolis’s largely white population and the city’s black residents has deepened, producing some of the nation’s widest racial disparities in income, employment and homeownership.

Such disappointments offer cautionary notes for those promising change in Minneapolis and other areas of the country in the aftermath of protests against police brutality and systemic racism — and raise questions about how far the movement to shift funding from police departments to other services can go toward delivering racial justice.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/30/minneapolis-had-progressive-policies-its-economy-still-left-black-families-behind/

 

Using my fake news to English translator, when they say "persisted", they actually mean "worsens". 

 

It also shows that government "redistributing wealth", something that has been "progressively" getting more prominent for the last century, doesn't create equality, but instead, reinforces inequalities.

 

Learning from real life failures can lead to better solutions, except they suggest doing more of the same, which goes beyond mere failure, and looks more to intentions. Doesn't just go into local wealth distribution, but government implementing "free trade deals" to offshore and gut lower and middle class unskilled jobs, government implementing friendly H-visas targeting newer middle class jobs to stunt wage growth by making Americans compete with foreign workers who will take significantly less than market value, government allowing illegal immigration to undercut unskilled American workers (even legal migrant workers) working on the fields, doing day labor, to make them compete with people making far below minimum wage, all designed, and proven after decades of implementation, to hurt lower and middle class, help the wealthiest. 

 

We have yet another real life example playing out with the Wuhan flu. Shutdowns, targeted shutdowns, poorer people unable to work, being locked up, in worse position to handle the crisis, financial situation rapidly deteriorating, net worth diving even more into the red, wealthiest people still profiting as if nothing's happening. 

 

Shouldn't be surprising that the biggest inequalities are exacerbated by the "problem solvers" solving the problem of increasing prosperity and needing to undercut it by squeezing the most vulnerable. In order to sustain this obvious lie, they need to effectively control the environment of these people and keep them far too overwhelmed and distracted to see who's screwing them.

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The sad thing is that this is mirrored in many other large “progressive” cities across the nation and world.  It also should be noted that this is not entirely a racial thing, but of course the Democrats have been running these cities and making their empty promises simply to get the votes of those less advantaged.  Maybe these folks should actually look at the history of the DNC as not much has changed.