There are more poor whites in this country than black. If what you said were true, there would be integration among the lower class. But there isn't. You have poor all white hoods and poor all black ones. I've lived in poor hoods before, and they were always all black. The few whites we had, they would ignore us and obviously resented us. I once came outside to a black and white neighbor arguing, the white one exclaiming that she didn't call her the N word. lol If whites move into a poor non white community, it is under the pretense that it will be majority white in a few years, e.i getrification. The realtors also have a huge role in redlining and discriminating against non white homebuyers, which isn't new, and is well documented. But even with integration, if you go into a school, you will see white kids sitting at one table and blacks at another. Racialism is a natural thing and impacts all avenues of day to day life.
We sent white, black, Hispanic and Asian testers undercover to see if they would be treated equally by LI real estate agents. Many were not.
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