Neighborhoods Of Color Show Marks Of Recession

May 10, 2010 - PRLog -- She was excited about showing me Churchill Downs and other hometown hot spots. But I declined each offer.

Instead I asked her to take me to neighborhoods where people of color live. I’ve made a habit of doing that nationwide. How a community treats people who’ve historically been oppressed shows the quality of the city more than tourist sites.

We drove through a Hispanic neighborhood near Churchill Downs. It was a community of many needs. Then we went through black areas. Some were solidly middle class. Others looked like blocks around Prospect and Troost avenues in Kansas City, where buildings were boarded up, vacant lots were plentiful and adults on the street appeared aimlessly unemployed.

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