I hope this message finds you well. I have been following your posts with great interest and have also connected with you on LinkedIn, appreciating the valuable insights you share.
However, I felt compelled to express my profound disappointment regarding the title of this post. The title was not only in poor taste but also deeply unsettling. Seeing it in my inbox brought back the grief, systemic oppression, and racism embodied in the tragic murder of George Floyd. It was a re-traumatizing experience for me. Finally, while reading the post the connection to the title wasn't made until the end of the blog. There were so many different ways to explain that the housing crisis is manufactured.
Furthermore, the timing of this post, coinciding with Breonna Taylor’s birthday, added to the distress. Breonna Taylor, like George Floyd, was a victim of extrajudicial police violence, and her killers faced minimal repercussions. The confluence of these reminders resulted in compounded trauma.
While I commend your efforts to highlight the American housing crisis, which disproportionately affects Black and Brown communities, this approach was inappropriate. Utilizing Derek Chauvin’s name, particularly given his controversial status, detracts from the gravity of the issues at hand. The provocative nature of the title was misdirected and insensitive, given the context of George Floyd's murder.
I hope you will reconsider such approaches in the future and find ways to engage your audience without invoking such painful memories.
I'm going to date myself with this analogy, but bear with me. In one of the Vacation! movies Chevy Chase goes to a car dealer to look into buying a new car. While he's in the sales office the car he drove there in is picked up by a crane and crushed flat without his knowledge. Chase, meanwhile, gets annoyed by the sales offers and leaves the office, sees what's happened to his car, and has no choice except to buy a new car. Everybody laughs.
That's pretty much the interaction of the Fed and the "Bailouts" of the GSE's in the housing market prior to the Great Recession, isn't it?
I hope this message finds you well. I have been following your posts with great interest and have also connected with you on LinkedIn, appreciating the valuable insights you share.
However, I felt compelled to express my profound disappointment regarding the title of this post. The title was not only in poor taste but also deeply unsettling. Seeing it in my inbox brought back the grief, systemic oppression, and racism embodied in the tragic murder of George Floyd. It was a re-traumatizing experience for me. Finally, while reading the post the connection to the title wasn't made until the end of the blog. There were so many different ways to explain that the housing crisis is manufactured.
Furthermore, the timing of this post, coinciding with Breonna Taylor’s birthday, added to the distress. Breonna Taylor, like George Floyd, was a victim of extrajudicial police violence, and her killers faced minimal repercussions. The confluence of these reminders resulted in compounded trauma.
While I commend your efforts to highlight the American housing crisis, which disproportionately affects Black and Brown communities, this approach was inappropriate. Utilizing Derek Chauvin’s name, particularly given his controversial status, detracts from the gravity of the issues at hand. The provocative nature of the title was misdirected and insensitive, given the context of George Floyd's murder.
I hope you will reconsider such approaches in the future and find ways to engage your audience without invoking such painful memories.
Thank you for the input. I'm sorry for this. I will take note of it in future posts.
Judging from de facto policies, what we do not want in America is more housing, infrastructure or well-paid labor.
I don't think this is working out.
The other side of the coin is there are worse-governed nations, such as Haiti or Russia.
I'm going to date myself with this analogy, but bear with me. In one of the Vacation! movies Chevy Chase goes to a car dealer to look into buying a new car. While he's in the sales office the car he drove there in is picked up by a crane and crushed flat without his knowledge. Chase, meanwhile, gets annoyed by the sales offers and leaves the office, sees what's happened to his car, and has no choice except to buy a new car. Everybody laughs.
That's pretty much the interaction of the Fed and the "Bailouts" of the GSE's in the housing market prior to the Great Recession, isn't it?
Perfect.
Nice work. Thanks!