There is a new app on the market that is getting a severe PR beat down due to the nature of its purpose. The app titled Ghetto Tracker, which is an app that helps people identify safe areas in unfamiliar cities has already received so much backlash that the company had to change the name less than 24 hours after its release.
The new name is called, “Good Part of Town.” Critics of the app are calling it racist, classist, and everything else by targeting rich people and helping them avoid poor or bad neighborhoods in any city. The app allows locals to rate the overall safety of certain areas of the city. When it first launched, the app feature a white family on the launch page. It has now been changed to an ethnically diverse family.
In all fairness, there should also be an app geared to help minorities know when they are in the company of racists.” The app would detect nearby racists by constantly repeating “We already rented the apartment” in the victim’s ear piece when he or she is in the vicinity of racism. The problem would be you would have to constantly charge it because it keeps going off.