Most black adults say they have experienced racial discrimination (75%), either regularly (13%) or from time to time (62%) In cities from charleston to new york, segregated burial grounds, many now forgotten, were established by local authorities for indigent black and white people. They say these experiences make them feel like the system is set up for their failure
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Many also say black people must work harder than everyone else to achieve success
As both black and rural, they face double erasure
David todd lawrence puts it like this “rural populations are devalued, dismissed, disempowered, and eventually rendered unreal and invisible when policy decisions are made.
