California native . This blog is named after my uncles nickname for me- dark girl, color of a tire- the most unique ever. I post personal experiences, reblog things related or pertaining to la cultura amoug other things...
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.
Octavia E. Butler, “Furor Scribendi” in Bloodchild and Other Stories (via wordswilling)
I have signed up for Facebook once again. I want to move out badly and tons of websites require that I sign up via a Facebook account- ok, possibly just the one website I used. It’s been less then 24 hours that I have a face on Facebook and thus far I have recuperated two of my “friends,” uploaded two pictures and reacquainted myself with all of my former FOMO and worry of whether I am good enough. “You do it to yourself, you do.” As a rehabilitated adult I shall stay on the good path and only focus on the roommate hunting.
Today is a regular workday. I have a new routine, a new batch of faces I am use to seeing. Everyday I will be a better stronger person because I am where I have wanted to be since I got a sense of purpose. I will start my page on the experiences I gain as an instructor of before and after school programs. With coffee everything is possible.
The state of things are changing. As usual the plans I had didn't quiet pan out. Still, in a way I'm in a position that I didn't foresee at all for the near future, a more carrer oriented job? October is spooky indeed!
Richard Rothstein, who studies residential segregation in America, concludes: "Federal, state and local governments purposely created racial boundaries in these cities."
The title is misleading..but if you really want to know why people in Charlotte are rioting to such an extreme level and are questioning the destruction and chaos in their own communities….THESEE ARE SOME OTHER REASONS MANY SEEM TO FORGET. It’s a 30 min podcast but it will open you eyes to government policies you didn’t know existed.
“We have a myth today that the ghettos in metropolitan areas around the country are what the Supreme Court calls ‘de-facto’ — just the accident of the fact that people have not enough income to move into middle class neighborhoods or because real estate agents steered black and white families to different neighborhoods or because there was white flight,” Rothstein tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross.
“It was not the unintended effect of benign policies,” he says. “It was an explicit, racially purposeful policy that was pursued at all levels of government, and that’s the reason we have these ghettos today and we are reaping the fruits of those policies.”
On real estate agents’ practice of “blockbusting”
In the ghettos, government policy — municipal policy, for example — denied adequate services, garbage wasn’t collected frequently. African-Americans were crowded into neighborhoods in the ghetto because so much other housing was closed to them and as a result, housing prices in ghettos were much higher than similar housing in white areas. Rents were much higher than similar housing in white areas … because you had a smaller supply. It’s the basic laws of supply and demand. … So this created slum conditions.
On using the word “ghetto”
One of the ways in which we forget our history is by sanitizing our language and pretending that these problems don’t exist. We have always recognized that these were “ghettos.” A ghetto is, as I define it, a neighborhood which is homogeneous and from which there are serious barriers to exit. That’s the technical definition of a ghetto.
Robert Weaver, the first African-American member of the Cabinet appointed by President Johnson as his secretary of Housing and Urban Development, described many of the policies that I’ve described today in a book he published in 1948 called The Negro Ghetto.
The Kerner Commission referred to the ghetto.
This is a term that we no longer use because we’re embarrassed to talk about it, and we need to confront our history and stop sanitizing our language and talk openly about what we’ve done as a nation and what we need to do to undo it. And we can’t talk openly if we’re going to use euphemisms instead of being explicit about what the reality is.
On how the New Deal’s Public Works Administration led to the creation of segregated ghettos
Its policy was that public housing could be used only to house people of the same race as the neighborhood in which it was located, but, in fact, most of the public housing that was built in the early years was built in integrated neighborhoods, which they razed and then built segregated public housing in those neighborhoods. So public housing created racial segregation where none existed before. That was one of the chief policies.
La Virgen, I see her and see my culture, my parents. This chair however represents something different. My assumption is a second or third generation... or a gentrifier. La Virgen, associated with tradition and gender roles; very black and white life morals. I, a culturally catholic but non practicing individual hope it's designed by los/las niños/as buenas that went to church with their guardian and actually liked and believed all the church things. That would comfort me. Strange, I know, but she's been plastered all over the Internet and I just wonder if she's someone that you say a prayer to or just a cool design? Is it like wearing a band shirt just because the design is neat?
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