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When I was a teenager we used to joke about Beacon Mall in Alexandria Virginia being the "black mall." But it wasn't THAT black. It was still majority white, from everything I saw. And many years later, I read a book about suburban mall demographics, where they said malls wanted to be under 5% black

Caliban Darklock

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Because if you had 5% black patrons, white people thought the mall was half black, and if you had 10% they thought it was ALL black. And as they looked at it they realised the issue was that at 5%, when a white person saw a black person, they had not emotionally recovered from seeing the last one.

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Caliban Darklock

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And at 10%, they could ALWAYS see a black person, so they NEVER recovered. And I have always just kind of looked at that and thought... Do you realise how racist that makes America? Like it is honestly mind-blowing how fucking racist we are over here