Chocopyro

I know. I'm prejudice against Israel from a geopolitical standpoint, and Hamas as well. Doesn't mean I hate jews or the Sunni. I'm also not a big fan of China or Russia. Some of my online friends come from those nations. So what's this issue I'm not addressing? I didn't leave out shit. But let's backpedal just a bit. What was the thing you were talking about? The voting ID thing? Oh yes, Systemic racism? Bitch, I'm Appalachian. Location is a big part of the issue you left out. When people, say those of darker complexion, or those who were deemed the "Less white", according to a turn of the century idea called Eugenics, are forced to live in segregated areas like ghettoes, or the hills, trade and revenue tends to stagnate or leave the area, resulting in poverty which makes it hard to get any sort of momentum in escaping said areas. Now let's get back to the voter ID thing. Inherently, that is not racist. What it is is a slap in the face of democracy, if anything. But who does it target? Those with less resources, less access to the world, and less knowledge. In low income neighborhoods, the focus is usually surviving to the next paycheck. The good jobs aren't in your area. So you're probably working 12 hour shifts from 7 to 7. Work basically becomes your life at that point. By the time you make it out, most municipal offices are closed. And they open after you wake up and head to work. In a lot of cases, you have to call off work for a day to get the beaurocratic shit situated. And if you have kids, this is even harder to manage. That means you take a day off work when you're already surviving with minimal disposable income. And a lot of these places don't do PTO. So you really have to care a LOT about democracy or a particular issue to take a day off work just to register for what should be a constitutional right to cast a vote. Add to that, poorer places tend to have a problem that normally only urban explorers need to deal with called LEAD PAINT. When that shit ages, it crumbles, it gets all over your hair and on your clothes, and somehow often ends up in our hands when we try to eat something. You know what ingesting led paint does to kids, right? Just another thing to worry about when most of your money goes to sink holes like the crumbling water pipes in your building. Add to that, disabilities have a tendency to go undiagnosed out here. And since a lot of the people still in these low income neighborhoods have been there for generations, a lot of us tend to be minorities who remain unable to escape these generational cesspits our ancestors were vacuumed into due to inherently racist policies of classic America long before we got our shit together. That the important part that was left out? Basic anthropology?