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jokes aside...we're currently looking to buy a house. (it's not a situation i ever really figured i'd find myself in given where and how i grew up.) this process has only underlined how wrongheaded the idea is that creating more Black people homeowners might solve the wealth gap.
the appreciation in "value" of a house we saw listed in Neighborhood A (which like all of DC until recently was mostly/all Black but is now gentrifying) over just three years was equivalent to nearly a third of the *total* value of some of the homes we saw listed in SE.
SE, of course, remains v Black. It's marked by food deserts and transit deserts. The homeowners there aren't building wealth or capital; they're losing it. It is "worth" less and its "value" is less bc they are Black and their neighborhood is Black.
making it nominally easier for Black ppl to own homes might help some individual Black homeowners, but it won’t do anything to reduce the racial wealth gap since the housing economy is essentially the Racism Stock Market.

#housingsegregationineverything

npr.org/sections/codes…
if you give a white person something deemed valuable then later concede that maybe a Black person should have that same thing — but it's less valuable simply bc a Black person is holding it — what inequity is solved by more Negroes having that thing? the thing IS the inequity.
but we will keep talking about it like it's a solution because it's more or less what our politics currently allow.

nyti.ms/31TbXP3
part of why we keep talking about it this way is that there are all kinds of stakeholders in our current system of racial capitalism. Banks, brokers, etc.

but at some point we have to decide: is housing/shelter a human right or is it a commodity for speculation?
For all the above reasons, Homeownership programs can’t be “reparations.”

Reparations are reparations.

chicagotribune.com/suburbs/evanst…

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Nov 3, 2022
Mentioned in passing during the live show tonight that the Chicago Police Dept ran a black site where they disappeared people and afterwards a Black CPD sergeant came up to me and said that wasn’t true and that we should debate it

First: no.
Second: theguardian.com/us-news/2015/f…
Just looked him up on the @ChicagoReporter police misconduct settlement database and sure enough: the city settled a lawsuit in which the aforementioned sergeant beat up a Black man at a store for no reason and planted drugs on the man to justify the arrest

of course he did.
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Aug 30, 2022
This is so odd.
“Shout out to Compton!” - Gayle King, die-hard Eazy E fan
one MORE surprise???
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Aug 29, 2022
Have you ever heard of SLABS? I hadn’t until last night.

it stands for Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities.
it’s exactly what it sounds like:
“There is little public awareness that when student borrowers sign their Master Promissory Notes (affirming that they will repay their loans and “reasonable collection costs”), their debts may be securitized and sold to investors.”

opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/…
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Aug 23, 2022
was talking to my gym partner who is moving in with her girlfriend and man. listening to her, i forget how much of healthy cohabitation, especially the early parts, is just overcommunicating. about every. single. fucking. thing.
let's say you say you both want a clean house. okay, that's dope!

but y'all are different people. something like "clean" means v different things — even for people who are objectively very clean people! does that mean a deep clean every Sunday? is everyday laundry day? etc
you may love your boo to death but before you move in together, most of your time together has some intentionality to it. when you live together, you suddenly have to talk through or work out stuff like alone time. or as my lady calls it, Secret Single Behavior.
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Jun 21, 2022
if you read enough discoursing about crime and policing in big cities #onhere, you'll see lots of people point out that crime is at or near historic lows, and that year-over-year crime jumps are relative to those troughs.
then you'll almost always see someone say in response that bloodless stats are missing the point: who cares what the numbers are if people don't *feel* safer?
and the data show that USians are basically always primed for a moral panic around crime: a majority of people polled said over the last two decades they thought crime was going up or so even though it had been steadily falling.

53eig.ht/3b5Q0n2
Crime is falling, but Americans don't believe it.
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Apr 8, 2022
sigh.

If you're talking abt Kobe's Black Mamba persona or the hashtag GirlDad memorializing that greeted his death, you're REALLY talking abt a branding switch necessitated by his rape case; league/fan investment in that rebrand was/is so strong that it inflates his greatness
imma mute this bc it's Friday but: one example is Kobe's reputation as clutch, which is wildly disconnected from his actual iffy production. But if you say that, people will invite you to Temecula as if the numbers ain't right there.
Kobe’s numbers across his Finals appearances are either middling or inefficient:

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