WillSmithsBrother

So in other words, the GAO won’t play any role when it comes to the decision?

I can’t comment on the statistics of this particular event, but there are many studies you can look into (particularly when it comes to environmental justice issues like proximity to toxic dump zones) where they found a much stronger correlation between the issue and race than they found between the issue and income.

For a long time I was very quick to dismiss many issues of race as income inequality (even though I acknowledged that some races disproportionately make up the low income class, which is clearly a systemic racism problem of its own). However, after seeing the findings of so many studies show a stronger correlation between race than between income I had to face the truth. Numbers don’t lie across that many studies. Poor white people are often far more likely to avoid certain issues than poor people of color.

The truth is that many communities of color are not being represented in their governments, local or state. It is up for debate whether that has to do with communities of color having an unwillingness to engage with their local governments, or if the government representatives are just more biased toward white voters. Either way, communities of color are being disproportionately effected by many harmful issues, even when accounting for income. That is the definition of systemic racism: The system is racist, even if people aren’t (which they still very often are).