Exactly my point. Thank you.

It also is reserved mostly for home owners. Often lower income groups can not afford home owbership. This means that people who rent get no relief, as if their hardships and losses carry les import than someone who has a mortgage. No bias there.

@TheMiddleWay not by the margins reported or the frequency at which peoples are denied. Its too obviously slanted in one direction. The differences in support is startling.

@TheMiddleWay It is happening.

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the buyout was only half the report. It was the second half of the original report

@TheMiddleWay same key words look for the previous day. I think buyout was the second days reporting.

It is true. Peoples of the lower economic strata have less experience with knowing how to ask the appropriate questions, how seek out the agencies that control the relief funds, and are not comfortable with filling out forms. They tend to be suspicious of the government agencies due to institutional racism and white privilege discrimenation. They often have less education and are not good at understanding legalise.

@TheMiddleWay Not necessarily true. If a white dominated society has actuaaly worked to marginalize segments of society because of being non-white, then yes they can be.

More than ample evidence to demonstrate thst this is the case. Most policy is written by whites (only recently have people of color elevated to positions of power high enough to effect policy change). If predominantly whites are writing the policy and policy is definitively discriminatory, then yes white privilege is occurring.

@TheMiddleWay Not if the system is institutionally rigged to insure marginalized communities do not recieve the services needed to allow them upward mobility. This occurs at all governmental levels from local to nstional. This includes funding for education, which marginalized communities are victims of underfunding . This is where residents would learn to become knowledgable with tools necessary for maneuvering the bureaucratic system to get assitance.

Also. enforcement of policies are carried out primarily by whites. The middle management level who decides on the ground about to structure and carry out disaster funding redistribution are also predominantly white.

@TheMiddleWay You are correct about the soico-econimic disparity on West Virginia and Virgina. there is a big problem in the coal belt area. But this is a wholly different problem. In the coal belt, its more about the type of job dependence and the loss of those jobs due to changing energy needs and policies changes. This is a false corerlation and does not really relate to white privilege problem. The original problem still exists and has roots longer and deeper than this geographic area.

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But it s two different arguments. One is about econimic privation due to changing industries and effected all races fairly equally who worked in it.

The other is about a hold over from colonialism that pidgeon-holed people of color and women and constructed institutional obstacles for their success and opportunity ofr equality.

@TheMiddleWay understand