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Junia
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Junia wrote:
Ok listen.
The whole movement from BLM that we have seen with all white support and stuff doesn't matter anything for me!

Unless! ... Unless ...

White people can actually prove that they can move into black or immigrant neighbourhoods (depnding on what country we talk about). Like come on. If you resist the idea to live with other people outside your race/immigrant people, but support them - for me you are just a hyppocrite. BUT if you do, then you gain some sort of respect from my side.

I think one of the best choices we have to stop racism and higher quality for poc is to actually mix people togeheter - for real. I am not sure this idea will actually work, but at least it is worth a try.

Yeah, that was basically my opinion.

BTS
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BTS wrote:
interesting, I dont think that ppl would actually do this bc there are many factors for them
but sure it would be life changing

Meister
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Meister wrote:
Well here is one more thing. a lot of times immigrants prefer to live near other immigrants.
They seek areas that has their kind, religion and tradition. It would be hard for a white person to move in to an area because the lack of homes and apartments.

Junia
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Junia wrote:

Meister wrote:
Well here is one more thing. a lot of times immigrants prefer to live near other immigrants.
They seek areas that has their kind, religion and tradition. It would be hard for a white person to move in to an area because the lack of homes and apartments.

I don't know how it is in your country, but at least in my country (Sweden), there is especially place in immigrant areas.
And I don't think tradition and religion should be a barrier for a white/non-immigrant person to move into that area, if that person truly is a supporter of non-white/immigrant people.

Also, even if immigrants prefer to live near other immigrants, cannot they take their own responsibility and mix togheter with non-immigrants?

Meister
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Meister wrote:

Junia wrote:

Meister wrote:
Well here is one more thing. a lot of times immigrants prefer to live near other immigrants.
They seek areas that has their kind, religion and tradition. It would be hard for a white person to move in to an area because the lack of homes and apartments.

I don't know how it is in your country, but at least in my country (Sweden), there is especially place in immigrant areas.
And I don't think tradition and religion should be a barrier for a white/non-immigrant person to move into that area, if that person truly is a supporter of non-white/immigrant people.

If there are few apartments in a "bad" area and a lot of good apartments in a "good" area you pick the good area.. And there is also a lot of cases when an immigrant has connections. family and friends in an area they go there because they know them. It goes the other way around to, if you immigrera the best way to be a part of the society it´s important to know new people. If you move to an area where you have your kin you tend to stay there.

RowanSunters
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RowanSunters wrote:
So what I am getting it that if a white person cares about BLM they need to live near a POC otherwise they don't actually care? And following from that then if a white person only lives near other whites than they do not care about any other race? According to you the only way to actually prove that you care is to live near POC/other races?

Or did I misread that first statement?

Callum
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callum wrote:
so unless white people move house, they shouldn't help out with the BLM movement? that's what im getting from this

Meister
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Meister wrote:

RowanSunters wrote:
So what I am getting it that if a white person cares about BLM they need to live near a POC otherwise they don't actually care? And following from that then if a white person only lives near other whites than they do not care about any other race? According to you the only way to actually prove that you care is to live near POC/other races?

Or did I misread that first statement?

Some places only have white people in them, like smal villages. The nearest colored person where i live is living 10 minutes away with car. I think that the higher you come in the Scandinavian countries the less people of color will live there. Big cities and smaller towns are the most popular areas.

RowanSunters
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RowanSunters wrote:

Meister wrote:

RowanSunters wrote:
So what I am getting it that if a white person cares about BLM they need to live near a POC otherwise they don't actually care? And following from that then if a white person only lives near other whites than they do not care about any other race? According to you the only way to actually prove that you care is to live near POC/other races?

Or did I misread that first statement?

Some places only have white people in them, like smal villages. The nearest colored person where i live is living 10 minutes away with car. I think that the higher you come in the Scandinavian countries the less people of color will live there. Big cities and smaller towns are the most popular areas.

See I get that, but what I meant was more a long the lines of if a white person only lives near other whites, but could live near other races but doesn't, then they, in the context of how I read the OP, do not care about other races. Does that make sense?

Callum
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callum wrote:

Meister wrote:

RowanSunters wrote:
So what I am getting it that if a white person cares about BLM they need to live near a POC otherwise they don't actually care? And following from that then if a white person only lives near other whites than they do not care about any other race? According to you the only way to actually prove that you care is to live near POC/other races?

Or did I misread that first statement?

Some places only have white people in them, like smal villages. The nearest colored person where i live is living 10 minutes away with car. I think that the higher you come in the Scandinavian countries the less people of color will live there. Big cities and smaller towns are the most popular areas.

dont say colored person wtf

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ouch wrote:

Meister wrote:
Well here is one more thing. a lot of times immigrants prefer to live near other immigrants.
They seek areas that has their kind, religion and tradition. It would be hard for a white person to move in to an area because the lack of homes and apartments.

Yeah I think thats very true

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Rotte wrote:
While i see where u are coming from, i think a lot of people don't think further about it when choosing where to live. I didn't myself take it into consideration, i mostly just looked for something affordable and nice. Not that i live with exclusively white, but even if i did it wouldn't be intentional and i don't think i wouldn move purely because of that.

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ouch wrote:

Meister wrote:

RowanSunters wrote:
So what I am getting it that if a white person cares about BLM they need to live near a POC otherwise they don't actually care? And following from that then if a white person only lives near other whites than they do not care about any other race? According to you the only way to actually prove that you care is to live near POC/other races?

Or did I misread that first statement?

Some places only have white people in them, like smal villages. The nearest colored person where i live is living 10 minutes away with car. I think that the higher you come in the Scandinavian countries the less people of color will live there. Big cities and smaller towns are the most popular areas.

I live in a small town (13k ppl) in norway but imma say the black % here is very high compared to surrounding places so idk I would have to disagree but only from what I myself see

Meister
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Meister wrote:

RowanSunters wrote:

Meister wrote:

RowanSunters wrote:
So what I am getting it that if a white person cares about BLM they need to live near a POC otherwise they don't actually care? And following from that then if a white person only lives near other whites than they do not care about any other race? According to you the only way to actually prove that you care is to live near POC/other races?

Or did I misread that first statement?

Some places only have white people in them, like smal villages. The nearest colored person where i live is living 10 minutes away with car. I think that the higher you come in the Scandinavian countries the less people of color will live there. Big cities and smaller towns are the most popular areas.

See I get that, but what I meant was more a long the lines of if a white person only lives near other whites, but could live near other races but doesn't, then they, in the context of how I read the OP, do not care about other races. Does that make sense?

There are a lot of things that people need to think of when they are looking for a place to live.
How far is it from work?
How are the area?
Can you get to work by buss?
How are the apartments? Are they shabby, neglected?
Is it near to schools?
Is it kid friendly?
How are the rumors around that area?
White people that lives in black areas can be talking about the area or the media is talking about them.

After the wave of people that are seeking asylum there are fewer apartments because each area needed to give them a home. Its hard to get an apartment now and sometimes you need to be in a waiting line for 7 years and up. If a lot of white people moves from a white area it will get filled fast by other white people because they have been in a line for years.

You also need to see how many people from each area moves, if a lot of people move from an area it will be filled with the same kin.

Meister
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Meister wrote:

callum wrote:

Meister wrote:

RowanSunters wrote:
So what I am getting it that if a white person cares about BLM they need to live near a POC otherwise they don't actually care? And following from that then if a white person only lives near other whites than they do not care about any other race? According to you the only way to actually prove that you care is to live near POC/other races?

Or did I misread that first statement?

Some places only have white people in them, like smal villages. The nearest colored person where i live is living 10 minutes away with car. I think that the higher you come in the Scandinavian countries the less people of color will live there. Big cities and smaller towns are the most popular areas.

dont say colored person wtf

If i write black people ( yeah i see the irony ) people will get offended.

Junia
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Junia wrote:

RowanSunters wrote:
So what I am getting it that if a white person cares about BLM they need to live near a POC otherwise they don't actually care? And following from that then if a white person only lives near other whites than they do not care about any other race? According to you the only way to actually prove that you care is to live near POC/other races?

Or did I misread that first statement?

It is not the only way, but surely should be one of the real ways of showing real solidarity. I want to put that in top 3, at least top 5. I don't mean every single white person should do this, but you can clearly see a pattern if almost no one do this. You can't point directly at people, but you can speak to people groupwise.