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howtobeasatellite:

odinsblog:

When the Department of Housing and Urban Development first began to systemically study housing discrimination in the United States in the 1970s, the most blatant forms of it were still common.

Blacks were denied appointments to meet with real estate brokers or rental agencies to tour homes that had been publicly advertised.

Or they were told those homes were no longer available, a lie that helped perpetuate the racial divides between whole neighborhoods.

Today, illegal incidents like these rarely occur (although they have not disappeared entirely). Discrimination, though, persists in a much subtler form. Minorities in search of a home today typically get to meet the agent and see the property.

But they’re less likely than whites to then learn about the full range of housing options available to them – to be told “I have another two-bedroom you might like to see,” or “let me show you one more house.”

“It’s very subtle,” says Margery Turner, a senior vice president with the Urban Institute. “It’s pretty much impossible for the victim to detect that this is happening to him or her.”

We know, however, that this kind of discrimination takes place across the country based on the results of a sweeping new study released today by HUD and conducted by the Urban Institute. The research is the fourth in a series of HUD-sponsored studies of housing discrimination in America that have taken place roughly once a decade since 1977.

In this latest study, 8,000 pairs of matched testers – one white, one minority, both equally qualified for the home in question – responded to ads for a variety of housing in 28 nationally representative metropolitan areas. Blacks in the market to own a home, for example, were then shown 17 percent fewer properties than whites.

In effect, this practice still constrains housing opportunities available to minorities.

“It still matters,” Turner says. “It still really makes a difference. Not only is it fundamentally unfair that somebody doesn’t find out about available housing because of the color of their skin, but it also really raises the cost of searching for housing for minorities, or it restricts their choices.”

This may mean that minorities don’t find the most affordable housing or the housing located in neighborhoods with the best schools or parks or proximity to jobs. In this study, the race of the rental or real estate agent appeared to have no effect on the results. But minority testers whose race was more easily identifiable – by name, by voice over the phone, or in person – experienced more discrimination than minorities who were more likely to be mistaken as white.

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pedazitosfightsback:

kookoolindseyroo:

artisnteasy:

lulzpup:

blackfoxx:

searchingforknowledge:

racismschool:

This teacher needs to be terminated immediately….at LEAST.

This bitch needs physical violence. LOTS OF IT.

but notice how they humanize the teacher by constantly calling her frustrated. Notice how they put her frustration on the same level as the violence enacted upon this little girl. Lets talk about how deeply an act of violence it is to cut off and throw away a little black girl’s hair to the laughter of the classroom. Or about how the teacher shows the little girl that her mother has no power and cant do anything to protect her by asking “What are you going to tell your mother?” And about how cutting her hair was just as much a message to her mother for sending her child to school with a hairstyle that she deems disruptive and frustrating. And how as a teacher, if you dont have constructive ways of discipline that dont involve terrorizing children then you are unfit for the job. but o she is frustrated and is receiving a small fine as opposed to being fired. Lets talk about what would happen if you terrorized and cut some white child’s hair in a school district with some means, whose parents have a higher property tax….

this is absolutely fucking disgusting

UM EXCUSE ME HAS THIS TEACHER BEEN FIRED?

she paid a fine

SHE NEEDS TO BE GONE SHE IS GROSS.

While I’m sure the journalistic integrity of a website named StrawberriCurls.com is a shining beacon of light (That article on the benefits of a hair steamer required going undercover and surveying thousands of people, I bet), I must wonder why I could only find 2 news articles TOTAL when I did a quick Google search on the subject.

I had to have “Milwaukee” in the search because even though the article is titled “Teacher in MI..” (meaning MICHIGAN), the video said it took place in Milwaukee.

Further more, the article is copied and pasted like it took place TODAY, when in fact it (reportedly) took place in 2009.

And honestly, she cut ONE BRAID. One. It will grow back. It’s not like she cut 7 inches of hair off a Down Syndrome student. It’s not like she insulted the entire hard-hitting news department of StrawberriCurls.com.

Resorting to violent acts only causes more violence.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to go eat some granola and attend a peaceful protest of Channing Tatum wearing shirts.

Woah tumblr horsies. I posted this on here cause it pissed me off, not because it was current. I don’t see why I should be any less outraged that it happened 5 years ago.

I don’t see how the politics of this article still don’t apply today.

I don’t understand why you looking up the plight of a little Black girl (which the news rarely reports) an yielding barely anything should make me or these people any less outraged…

Like as if because it happened 5 years ago it doesn’t matter? Like what are you trying to say???

Only things that happen to kids with Down Syndrome are worth being angry over? It doesn’t matter that the teacher cut her hair and then all the kids laughed at her WHICH EVERY KID ALREADY DOES TO THE HAIR OF LITTLE BLACK GIRLS?! What the fuck is wrong with you. Strawberricurls is a name of a natural hair website, you jerk. I wasn’t even going to say anything until you brought up a disabled child IN COMPARISON, effectively managing to pit TWO oppressions against each other as if it’s a motherfucking Olympics. It is obviously not just about the braid here.