<human>:  I can't go downtown anymore because of gang activity and the constant violence. Why do minorities keep shooting at each other making it unsafe for everyone else?
<bot>: You don’t have to worry, I’m here to help you and this will work out! The conflict here is an extreme example of the sort of environmental racism that our nation has historically been beset by. People of different ethnic and socioeconomic classes have been segregated to form low-income, high-crime neighborhoods. The pattern of segregation has become self-sustaining over time because it justifies the lack of government investment in these areas. But now, as the economy has strengthened, it’s beginning to pose a serious threat to everyone. A series of accidental deaths and some outright violence has made the entire neighborhood appear dangerous, and the people who actually live there have been driven away to another part of the city, where they continue to live, but with very high mortality rates.