I was wondering where these “food deserts” actually are. My home state, with South Carolina as a bonus. Looks like the Black Belt to me. (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi look similar.)
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/go-to-the-atlas.aspx#.UUDMojfNkS8
Comment by JohnFen – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37090710
I’ve actually always thought something like this:
«As a rough analogy that my lawyer told me early on, lawyers are like software engineers, and the law is like the operating system. A good lawyer writes robust “code” designed to deal with edge cases and unexpected conditions gracefully.»
Law as code, amenable to diffs and code review, and vulnerable to bugs.
«Experts on the way racialized thinking operates would read the same comments and see the fingerprints of racism all over them. In studying the same anti-Obama sentiment during the same period, psychologist Eric Knowles and his colleagues devised experiments to minimize the silencing impact of social desirability (that is, giving answers you know society wants you to give); to analyze based on implicit, not explicit, bias; and to control for other rationales such as ideology and partisanship. With all that stripped away, racial prejudice remained. They explained, “People may fail to report the influence of race on their judgments, not because such an influence is absent, but because they are unaware of it—and might not acknowledge it even if they were aware of it.”»
#TheSumOfUs
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«Trump improved upon Mitt Romney’s margin with voters making under $30,000 a year by 16 points. But he still lost them—by 12 whole points.
The bulk of Trump’s support didn’t come from people who are most down on their luck. It came from people who are afraid they’re next.
…
So what did correspond with Trump support?
Racial resentment among white voters was particularly determinative.»
https://talkpoverty.org/2016/11/16/stop-blaming-low-income-voters-donald-trumps-victory/index.html
@tarheel 🔗 https://mstdn.io/users/tarheel/statuses/110826037160088717
https://clickamericana.com/topics/activities-fun/huge-outdoor-public-swimming-pools-1900s
What we white people gave up, rather than swim with Black people.
But John, we were also afraid of polio!
(a) Polio was endemic way before the 1950s.
(b) chlorine was known to deactivate the polio virus and had been in use since the turn of the century.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/15/us/racist-deeds-covenants/index.html
«The federal government in 1934 endorsed such segregation by refusing to underwrite mortgages for homes unless a racial covenant was in place. Then in 1948, following activism from black Americans, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled these covenants unenforceable.»
Did not know. ☹️ I had assumed it was just individual HOA types, not THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
On a somewhat related note: I wonder just how much our supreme court is going to roll back.
“Cohen said it normally takes three months to a year and a half for cases to be heard in Fulton County Superior Couty. He thinks it would take years for Trump’s case to go to trial and believes his lawyers would likely try to postpone it until after the 2024 Presidential Election.” https://www.11alive.com/article/news/special-reports/ga-trump-investigation/fulton-county-insiders-expect-former-president-donald-trump-indicted-this-week-georgia/85-10b10a28-e537-49a5-a17e-042d86dd4777#:~:text=Cohen%20said%20it%20normally%20takes%20three%20months%20to%20a%20year%20and%20a%20half%20for%20cases%20to%20be%20heard%20in%20Fulton%20County%20Superior%20Couty.%20He%20thinks%20it%20would%20take%20years%20for%20Trump%27s%20case%20to%20go%20to%20trial%20and%20believes%20his%20lawyers%20would%20likely%20try%20to%20postpone%20it%20until%20after%20the%202024%20Presidential%20Election.
“Then again, by the nineteenth century, owners could purchase life insurance on their slaves (from some of the most reputable insurance companies in the country) and be paid three-quarters of their market value upon their death. These insurance companies, including modern household names New York Life, Aetna, and U.S. Life, were just some of the many northern corporations whose fortunes were bound up with slavery.”
https://a.co/6s8JND1
Wait, there’s more:
“In fact, by the time war loomed, New York merchants had gotten so rich from the slave economy—40 percent of the city’s exporting businesses through warehousing, shipping insurance, and sales were Southern cotton exports—that the mayor of New York advocated that his city secede along with the South.
In very stark and quantifiable terms, the exploitation, enslavement, and murder of African and Indigenous American people turned blood into wealth for the white power structure. Those who profited made no room for the oppressed to share in the rewards from their lands or labor; what others had, they took. The racial zero sum was crafted in the cradle of the New World.”
🤯
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