Daily News | In a segregated city, race determines safety. That’s unacceptable. | Editorial
, again, demonstrates this disparity with a statistic that is unacceptable: The percentage of Black and Hispanic Philadelphians who feel unsafe in their neighborhood is double the percentage of white Philadelphians., more than 60% of white Philadelphians feel “completely or pretty safe in their neighborhoods at night.” Only 32% of Hispanic and 35% of Black Philadelphians were able to say the same.
Roughly a third of all white respondents reported that gun violence had no impact on their life — a privilege that only 12% of Black and Hispanic respondents shared. This disparity is only possible because Philadelphians of different races don’t share the same neighborhoods — despite more than half a century of lip-service to integration as the policy of the United States.Kerner Commission, which investigated the unrest of the previous summer, issued a dire warning
in its report: “To continue present policies is to make permanent the division of our country into two societies: one, largely Negro and poor, located in central cities; the other, predominantly white and affluent, located in the suburbs and in outlying areas.”On April 11, 1968, about a week after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act into law.
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