Posted Oct 15, 2018, 4:07 AM
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Originally Posted by the urban politician
I like gentrification, don’t get me wrong. Hell, I benefit from it, and I truly feel the city does too.
This may open up a larger discussion, but I actually feel that the biggest mistake people who believe in free market economics did was to not be very inviting to people of color (other than Asians). It’s a mistake whose chickens are coming home to roost today, and yes, in rare form I do blame the white male establishment for blowing it on this one.
It would’ve been wise, years ago, to have indoctrinated more Hispanics and African Americans to the power of free market economics. Less regulation, more entrepreneurship, the benefits of competition, etc. Instead it looks like a majority of people of color have moved ideologically towards embracing Socialism as the path to a better society.
The problem we run into is when half our society wants Socialism and the other half doesn’t—especially when these divisions fall on racial lines, and this division is especially stark in Chicago.
Had more opportunities for advancement and more embracing (instead of demonizing) free enterprise occurred among minority communities, I believe that even our north lakefront neighborhoods would be more diverse than they are today.
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LOL at the idea that white people are free market purists.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...ns/1512757002/
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