Very happy that Supreme Court did the right thing – both yesterday and today.
But let’s remember that both preservation of ACA and recognition of gay marriage is something that the large corporations have been advocating for for a long time, so it is not at all surprising.
It is interesting, however, to look at their decisions on something that business community was not concerned as much, like yesterday’s decision about housing discrimination in Texas – which I hope would get the attention it deserved.The Atlantic had an interesting read about segregation and gentrification.
As someone who spent the first few years in this country with very little income and on public assistance, I can attest that being one of the very few people below-poverty-level living in a notoriously wealthy suburb is no fun, especially when we didn’t have a car. But at the same time, it did afford opportunities and role models that I may not have been exposed to in the city. Of course, absence of overt discrimination and the pre-existing “cultural capital” played a major role as well.
In the end, I think that integration is more important in the long term to making this country heal – which must go both ways – integrating poor people into wealthy communities as well as comparatively wealthy people into the poor ones (and gentrification is something that’s has to be managed rather than condemned).
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