This is a great read. Having lived in the USA, the level of segregation that I observed was quite shocking to a Toronto boy. The only minorities to be seen in my all WASP / Jewish neighborhood were the landscapers, nannies and maids.
I also couldn't figure out why they all wanted to live in gated communities, with security guards at the ready, when our suburbia town was safer than most back home in Ontario.
This article touches on what could be the root cause; minorities are the enemy and white Americans are afraid of them. In response the police have become domestic soldiers, whose job is not to necessarily protect the public, but to battle the enemy.
One of the comments to the article summed it up nicely: "David Simon, the creator of The Wire, often talks about how there are really two Americas—one economically viable and mostly white, the other economically hopeless and mostly black".
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/ame...3/+GregHoward1
I also couldn't figure out why they all wanted to live in gated communities, with security guards at the ready, when our suburbia town was safer than most back home in Ontario.
This article touches on what could be the root cause; minorities are the enemy and white Americans are afraid of them. In response the police have become domestic soldiers, whose job is not to necessarily protect the public, but to battle the enemy.
One of the comments to the article summed it up nicely: "David Simon, the creator of The Wire, often talks about how there are really two Americas—one economically viable and mostly white, the other economically hopeless and mostly black".
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/ame...3/+GregHoward1
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