Paper Topic:

`Leadership and the Civil Rights Movement”

Segregation between the Poor and the Rich

Introduction

The term segregation creates a distinction between one group of people from another , this is normally based on the skin color , facial features and the hair texture and economic stability , it normally vary depending on the culture , and social economic factors in the society . The relationship between the poor and the rich in our world is shrinking especially in our cities . Whereby , we find various groups of people who are classified as follows the capitalists these are those people who need cheap labor

and infrastructure , the poor migrants who need jobs and a minimal secure housing and the public officials who need to juggle larger resource agendas and still get re-elected , these three types of people may not understand each other very well , but their interdependence is the most fundamental factor in their development in modern cities

Segregation

Though it is hard to define a living process with so much experimentation and so many flavors , many people come up with ideas claiming that , the gap dividing the poor and the rich is getting wider as the process of development brings prosperity for some but further marginalizes the poor , it is found that the cases on urban insecurity violence and environmental deterioration are going up and up , while the breakdown of neighborhoods , communities and families is eroding the social fabric which makes various cities decent places to live . This case is seen as a major mess in the living standards of people in many communities

Although , there are the rich and the poor at every scale , within the communities , cities , countries and regions and that in every context , it is generally the rich who are said to take the prerogative to solve problems and in this case of cities whereby , solutions put forward by the rich have not worked at all , but have made much harsher the poor peoples burden . While issues on infrastructure , real estate and investments get discussed in the cities , the problem of the urban poor get neglected , causing the inter-depended equations to get even more lopsided and the poor are sent back to where they started from their normal problems

These problems are always seen to be occurring on a daily basis as a result of the non-involvement of the poor in decision making . Meaning that , there are no solutions that work for the poor and that if there were , communities would already be using them . Most externally propagated alternatives are not providing the kind of solutions that were anticipated . It is argued that the development interventions which sought to deal with a single issue , no matter how well designed , they have not been able to deal with the reality that human beings have needs that are multi-faceted and interconnected needs , which can be resolved in discrete bits . Although very few resources get allocated to the problems affecting the poor , they get withdrawn when the poor people fail to participate in change processes which either scare them away or...

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