The town I grew up on had a lot of black and brown people move into the north side and values plummeted. Talking 50% losses as crime 8nvreased and anyone that could started to sell. I lived on the south side and every person that could sold before the same thing happened.
It is now a out 29 years later and the city can't pass school levy's, the crime is to the point the city now has a SWAT team.
I don't blame people. One of the points of home ownership is increasing value. If it isn't get out.
Forget the homes. Any descendant of a slave holder should have to work at subsistence level for a black family until retirement. That's the only way to re-balance justice in America.
Of course, a large percentage of African Americans are the descendants of slaveholders...
I think if they can prove someone's ancestor was a slaveholder, the government should take their home by eminent domain and award it to a black family. It's the only way there will ever be justice and peace in America. There is no way a descendant of a slaveholder should own a home.
To take a home by eminent domain, the government would have to pay the current homeowner for his property.
First, if people are doing this voluntarily, what is it to you? You weren't going to buy in Oregon anyway.
Second, they're probably not selling at a loss at all, as their homes rose dramatically in value over the past decades. They probably mean at a discount from the current value.
Third, what's wrong with a little voluntary justice here when black people were long deprived of the ability to buy homes in white neighborhoods or to see their own homes appreciate in value because of federal and corporate redlining?
How many in Martha’s Vineyard sold their homes to the border crossers?
SMH...what does that idiotic question have to do with the original post? Not a damn thing.
First off they crossed into Texas and then the state of Texas illegally handed them over to DeSantis of Florida who spent Florida tax payers money to fly them to Martha's Vineyard in the middle of the night. They were literally wondering the streets. If they had enough $ to buy a home in Martha's Vineyard do you really think they are walking across the Rio Grande?
DING-DING-DING! Free actors in a free country. If they're happy, I'm happy.
I'll ask again if someone only sold to white people would you be cool with that too because it's the "free market"?
Again. The eternal again. Stop looking at things without context. Stop looking at things in absolute terms. Still, DeSantis et al, want to get rid of context and history (particularly where political, social and economic history and context is needed to importantly give upstanding to why some things are the way they are now). Incredible, these people want to get rid of what happened, literally they want to get rid of history because it's inconvenient to and doesn't benefit them. Mind blown.
"That's not fair ! Why does he get a hug, more attention and time, and special treatment today from the teacher more so than anyone else in the class ?"
"His grandparent just passed yesterday you little sh!t"
I think if they can prove someone's ancestor was a slaveholder, the government should take their home by eminent domain and award it to a black family. It's the only way there will ever be justice and peace in America. There is no way a descendant of a slaveholder should own a home.
Forget the homes. Any descendant of a slave holder should have to work at subsistence level for a black family until retirement. That's the only way to re-balance justice in America.
When you present an extreme case to trivialise something that's critically important it only enlightens me on your ignorance, fears and immaturity but even more so your lack of empathy.
The Letsaltright.com message board brigade is out heavy on this one.
A group of volunteers who call themselves PDX Housing Solidarity Project helps connect people with ample resources to Black and Indigenous homebuyers in Portland. Amid a statewide housing crisis and in a city that has been hi...
Being a "liberal" in America has always been about indoctrination and shoving woke values down people's throats.
In the mind of conservatives….things like giving blacks and women the right to vote, desegregation, legalizing interracial marriage, equal rights would all be considered “woke values”. Conservatives are some of the dumbest people in AmeriKKKa. If you offered 90% of them a million dollars to give a coherent definition of “woke” or “CRT” they couldn’t do it. I watched a video yesterday where a white woman was running for school board on a platform strongly opposing DEI….when asked to give her definition of DEI and how it was being implemented in their particular school system…..the chick looked like a deer in the headlights 😂😂Dumb biittchh went totally silent. She couldn’t answer the question at all!! When pressed she finally mumbled something about making white kids feel bad 🤦🏽♂️ Sad
I won’t knock any private transaction, if they want to sell below value you’re allowed to do that. There’s definitely a heavy dose of black entitlement in the linked script (this is a way for “white people who actually know the history” to do their part to redistribute? Very nonspecific and oozing with elitist critical-theory BS) but it’s up to all of us to decide how we conduct our finances and transactions.
Forget the homes. Any descendant of a slave holder should have to work at subsistence level for a black family until retirement. That's the only way to re-balance justice in America.
When you present an extreme case to trivialise something that's critically important it only enlightens me on your ignorance, fears and immaturity but even more so your lack of empathy.
The Letsaltright.com message board brigade is out heavy on this one.
“Everyone who pushes back on the illogical excesses of my illiberal, non-evidence-based worldview is ‘Alt-Right.’”
Righties have been trying to takeover school boards in my area. They are some of the dumbest MF idiots that I have ever seen run for office. Clueless, fact averse, and unable to pontificate beyond some talking points scrawled on a 3 x 5 card that someone handed them. They cannot explain what CRT is and are vehemently opposed to any free expression by students or teachers.
In predictable fashion, whenever they get stumped by a question about school bonds, curriculum reforms, state funding mechanisms, or concerns over special education, they reflexively start rambling about ineffective border controls, business taxes, drag queens, or Kamala Harris.
Not the best or brightest by any stretch of the imagination. Thankfully, they are getting crushed by 2 to 1 margins at the polls.
All the comments saying it’s a private transaction between two parties are right but it’s also pretty stupid if people are actually doing shît like this.
The Chinese cultural revolution saw as many as 60 to 100 million people die. What exactly about selling your house by choice at a lower price to oppressed peoples is reminiscent of the cultural revolution?
It's the underlying ideology that's similar--particularly the idea that one needs to dismantle the existing culture and cleanse oneself of old ideas. In the American context, the toxic ideas are whiteness, patriarchy, colonialism, and cis-heterosexism. There's also the simpler idea that we are morally culpable for our ancestors behaviors, regardless of our own character.
