I often wonder when reading articles on African American news, whether it's more than a concidence that areas with high concentration of African American population is lacking the same access to public institutions as the rest of America. For instance, why is there so many liquor and gun stores in the 'hood so to speak?

Really happy and proud of this owner for this initiative, but other than just being another Model Minority Today piece, the institutional racism evident in the US is clearly visible to me as an outsider, and it appears to me, a sly, covert, purposeful, institutionally enforced ignorance prevalent in American society as a result of Nixon's attack on ethnic political expression through a caricature that is the war on drugs, in accelerating their collective demise through economic and educational deprivation. It wasn't like African Americans weren't trying either, for example, there once was a thriving economy called "Black Wallstreet" that was destroyed by the white establishment.

It's not evident just from the treatment of African Americans throughout US history but other minorities. For instance, disarming Koreans who were defending their stores from looters, and letting the communities they built up burn to the ground, and only then, sending in the national guard, Japanese Internment Camps, more recently the plight of hurricane Katrina victim's treatment, kids of refugees and asylum seeking parents who are stuck in a privatized camp with reports of sexual abuse from the caretakers in the absence of their parents, are escaping an increasingly violent narco-economies in South America that were formed out of the same institutional deprivation and usurpation of national resources by American corporations throughout Latin American history, ex) United Fruits Company, comes to my mind.