Power gradients either reduce the or increase the burden of evidence required to feel that an action can be 'justified' or will be supported in wider society. The steepness of the gradient varies according to many societal factors. Humans learn predominantly via role modelling - what we see and hear programs the brain for those actions regardless of our genetic inheritance. This can be healthy or unhealthy depending on what we witness. In essence, our cultures, our lore and our language either increases or decreased the effort required to travel neurological pathways - as with water, the flow will most readily move along the pathway of least resistance, of least energy required, to produce a result. In countenance to this the solution is reduction in stress and fear (to allow better use of the prefrontal cortex (rather than the primitive structures activated by fear) and changing our culture and lore toward empathy and cooperation (rather than survival of the fittest, fear and competition). Prejudice is a power gradient that produces the harm that prejudiced operators purport to be attempting to reduce.
As a bonus, the social housing bonds created real social mobility, erasing generations of inequity. The homes were either bought near the good and outstanding schools or clustered in conjunction with the new "mom and pop" schools, creating and educational boost alongside the housing - a "multi-savings deal" in terms of social, education and health outcomes for the country.
Since systemic racism affects families, causing an intergenerational disadvantage in terms of education and economics, the new "mom and pop schools" and giving young folk from cramped intergenerational housing high quality hotel accommodation and food was a great step in the right direction. Though it was done based on socio-economic need rather than ethnicity, many living in such conditions are of BAME backgrounds. The hotel system gave us a great way to increase access to talk therapy too - a great way to undo the damage of ACEs. It gave all poor kids a chance to save money for their future needs and learn life skills in a safer environment. The kids were also eligible to train for jobs within the hotel and earn hospitality and catering qualifications, further reducing the spread of the pandemic by "bubbling." It gave us all hope for a better future within a society more at peace with itself, more capable of the complex forms of cooperation all developed societies require - after all, human tribes were small groups that needed to learn how to get along with one another and avoid conflict.
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