racism and cities 

When looking for a pattern to talk about I thought about life in and around large cities. Generally white people get the good jobs in the cities however most of them decide not to live there instead they live in the suburbs outside the city leaving the inner cities for the minority’s this would be okay except for the fact that because the people that have the high paying jobs don’t live in the city the city gets none of the taxes from this work. This leads to a fall in the quality of education and several other things within the city. The people outside the city are leaching of its jobs and resources. Using my sociological imagination I came to the conclusion that this is an example of structural racism. The system is set up against minorities. Some communities have even gotten in legal trouble because they were discouraging and making it harder for minority’s to live in these suburbs