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defusted t1_j4ngc39 wrote

Are you looking at Chester upland academy, Chester upland School of the arts, or Chester high School, because one of those isn't a private school where you got that number from. Maybe instead of trying to cherry pick one thing to point at and go "see, it's really not that bad" you should actually do some reading.

Chester was a red line area, I'm not going to get into what red lining is, you can look that up yourself. Companies loved to build industrial areas in red lining areas because they didn't care if the predominantly black population got stuck from industrial run off and fumes. When all the factories started to shut down in Chester it left the area even more impoverished. Low tax bracket areas don't get good public spending for public schools, hence lower education. Low income mixed with low educational opportunities creates high crime areas.

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defusted t1_j4n5rxr wrote

Chester is a text book example of the consequences of red lining. It was always an awful place by design with no chance of getting better. We got rid of all the laws that say "black people can't..." But we kept all the laws that say "you're school funding is based on taxes, and since everyone in your neighborhood is poor you ain't getting shit". Data shows that areas with poor education causes crime to be high, so if you purposely keep people uneducated then you take away their ability to get better jobs and move to better places.

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defusted t1_j2td48k wrote

Why is it that every time the civil rights movement comes up there is always some asshole who conveniently forgets the pivot of the two parties in 1964. The Democrats who opposed the civil rights movement of the 60s are the current Republican party. You assholes aren't the party of Lincoln, you're the party of trump. Stop trying to tell people the Democrats are the real racists when it's the GOP that gets the support of the KKK and other domestic terrorists groups.

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defusted t1_j2nqbmz wrote

California is a bigger state and has more people than a place like Virginia, so all of those people in California should just be overruled because Virginia says so? Pennsylvania has more power than either of those states because it's just the right population, should either of those states have less of a say in what happens? Majority rules is at least fair.

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defusted t1_j2jhypt wrote

The electoral college is horse shit. It was created so bigger states with far fewer people like Virginia wouldn't get over ruled by smaller states like new York even though new York has way more people. We should be doing this by majority rules. If we actually went by the will of majority of people in this country then the last Republican presidents term would have ended 30 years ago.

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