That's racist! update.

[BmorePat87]

(01-12-2018, 02:27 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Agreed and your post is to be admired and hopefully taken to heart by many including myself. 

I was putting it into context of the Farmer's Markets. Whether I agree or not with the premise of Farmer's Markets catering to white folk and disadvantaging blacks; that type of scenario would be racism. I simply would not compare a system such as that to a march; regardless of organizers. 

Just as I would not consider a BLM march to be racism. It is racist, often illegal, and in many cases dangerous; but it is not racism. Now if a community said you BLMs cannot march here, but you Nazis can; then that would be racism.

Likewise, I don't see farmers markets as inherently bad or racist. There are many that exist in areas where they are truly a product of the community and benefit the local population. There are also many that exist in areas at risk of gentrification or going through gentrification that cater to nonlocal populations or help to speed up a process that harms poor communities in general (which are often mostly minorities), and those are the ones that should be looked at and their benefits questioned. 

I think there's a big difference between something being racist and something inadvertently causing more harm to minority or poor communities. I would absolutely disagree with anyone making a blanket statement about farmers markets, especially calling them racist, but I did agree with the author's interpretation of data focused solely on the San Diego area demonstrated an issue that was detrimental for some communities.