alt Hacker News> It feels racist to expect people to assume a neighborhood is 'resource poor' just because it is 'historically black'.
Statistically poverty is correlated with race. For reasons to do with (quite recent) history.
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renewiltord • yesterday at 9:39 PM
Statistically crime is also related with race. Are we ready to make similar assumptions then?
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Statistics are not a license to assume.
Crime rates also statistically correlate with demographics, but if I assume a specific person is a criminal based on that stat, I would (rightly) be called racist.
Expecting people to assume 'historically black' == 'poor' similarly feels racist.