Written by M. Harrison | 31 December 2007

Urban Politics
Positive, race-neutral policy ideas to create equality of opportunity
M. Harrison

Can't say we better off than we was before
In synopsis this is my minority report
-- S. Carter

Evidence of racial inequality abounds in the 21st century, but nowhere is this modern de facto segregation is most apparent than in the inner city ghetto. Many of these areas are the very communities that were segregated as Colored during the post-Reconstruction period, and have never been given the institutional and infrastructural development that have built many whiter suburban areas into relatively safe, wealthy, and prosperous family communities. Despite the past efforts of well-meaning politicians, naming an urban street after Thomas Jefferson or Martin Luther King, Jr. doesn't transform a socially-repressed and economically-depressed area into a bastion of bucolic prosperity. It is an artifact of rational observation of life in these areas, not Afro-centric militancy, to say that the work of the civil rights movement is socially, politically and economically incomplete.