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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Study the history. Racist housing policies created dead zones in the inner city. Invest in some stores and businesses and medical facilities and grocery stores in areas that have nothing but liquor stores. A resident can’t get a job if s/he can’t get to it.

Investment happens in whites areas, just perpetuating the same problems. [/quote]

Eh. Most of the poor urban Baltimore neighorhoods used to be solid white neighborhoods and even not that long ago. 1950 Baltimore was 80% white. I find all this blame on redlining and other racist real estate policies of the 1920s-1950s just an excuse for what the real problem is: a dysfunctional urban poor population that has no motivation or desire to change their lot. All the ones who could get out left a long time ago. But no one wants to face the simple truth: poor Baltimore is responsible for 99% of their own problems. They'd rather blame everything and everyone else. [/quote]

I understand where your sentiment is coming from, but please read the PP's long post about trauma informed care. Once you begin to understand why there appears to be no motivation for change, you can start to become a part of the change. A traumatized person is frozen. A repeatedly traumatized person is shut down. The people who succeed without intervention are those who are wired to process and literally shake off the trauma. Most people cannot do that without intervention.

Trauma truly is the root of most of our social problems. We need to focus both on stopping the sources of trauma (poverty, hunger, drugs, guns, violent crime, abuse) and healing the trauma in individuals we can reach, which includes those in schools, health care facilities, prisons, the military, and even in the workforce. Truama of any kind does change the brain, but it can be healed.[/quote]

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