Willful white ignorance of opportunity deserts is enabled by societal indifference to the poor

Evidence

This is not to say these communities are without hope, but these are the harsh conditions under which hope dares to blossom. Opportunity deserts are the racial underside of a society that has turned its back on poor people, especially poor black people. This indifference to the poor allows most white Americans to be willfully ignorant of what happens in such places and to ignore the history of racism in this country that has consigned so many black people to poverty with little to no chance of escaping it. Most white Americans never go there—literally or metaphorically—and have a hard time imagining that such places exist. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 64

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Green consumer choice is a class privilege unavailable in food deserts — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 717