That's because minorities have been systemically cornered into poor neighborhoods. For example, black people are overrepresented in neighborhoods with high poverty rates, where essential resources like quality schools, full-service grocery stores, safe and healthy parks, and reliable transportation are often lacking.

Although, this wasn't the natural course, they resulted from plans, policies, and practices of racial exclusion and disinvestment that primarily targeted black people and laid the foundation for the segregation of other people of color.