Overall, I think this article did a great job at highlighting so many underlying issues in food systems. It’s a very sad thing to see a place that once had a buzzing community and economy have been on a steady decline. We spoke a lot about food deserts last semester in another class and the impact they have. We do often see this is impacting low income areas, which are often as the article said black or latino. The struggle for children to get nutritional food is way larger than it should be, and it starts with some of the urban planning and zoning policies talked about. “The practice of bank redlining also stopped the flow of mortgage and property investment capital into parts of the city where people of color resided.” I took this quote out to focus on one of the main topics mentioned called redlining. This is a direct “jab” at people of color in lower income communities as they try to continue to keep them in a minority and there is proof of it. Being put into specific categories by the HOLC and other organizations would make it harder for people in these areas to obtain loans or anything like that. There are so many detractors that are keeping people in their current situation, and they are all uncontrollable to them.
I like this article and if I’m being honest the awareness it brought to me. There are so many policies and other rules to keep neighborhoods marginalized. These policies create even more inequality and make it harder for people to fight for the right thing. It’s a very unfortunate thing we have going on today where we still see our communities and big corporations being controlled by prejudice or whatever makes people think that any of these things are for the better.
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I thought you brought up a good point saying how difficult it is for children to get enough nutrition in our country. I believe that part of the issue is that people that aren’t personally affected are ill-informed of these low-income house’s situations. If more people were to hear about the issue they could get involved. Just like you, I learned a lot from this article that I was unaware of. I believe that the big corporations shouldn’t have as much control as they do and it shouldn’t be so difficult for minority families to get out of their current situations.
You saying "It's a very unfortunate thing we have going on today" made me think about how a lot of these rules are the way they are precisely because they weren't made today. The people of today would take much stronger issue with creating these sorts of red-lines and predatory zoning, but people fight back much less against *keeping* inherited issues. Your reaction, specifically talking about this article is what brought you awareness, just goes to back up this idea that these issues exist because they're not in the public conscious, instead just hiding in the background since the society that let them be made has changed.
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