Sunday, September 13, 2020

I didn't know that about Los Angeles.

I did know that black people are disproportionately homeless in the United States.

It has been very frustrating that my documenting of the homeless system's failures in Massachusetts were met consistently with absolute denial from even the politicians who identify as progressive.  They Tweet about the need for more housing, which I won't argue with.  They are uniformly silent about the dysfunction of the homeless support system, although before Covid there were half a million homeless people in the United States, and Covid has exposed the failures of that system.  



From Google for "black people homeless disproportionate":








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It doesn't surprise me that Los Angeles is an epicenter of homeless, racial inequality.  It is an epicenter of many inequalities, whose normalization it churns out in the form of mind-numbing mass communication that influences billions of people.