planned segregation

This is something I keep wondering about: why is the issue of residential segregation not more front and center to the discussion of addressing racism in the US? Housing policies determine education and access, quality of life, health and life expectancy (think food deserts), gang violence, and the school to prison pipeline.

The US has so much to atone for starting in 1619, and it starts with looking at awful policies with openness and honesty.

In US news and current events today, Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law author, continues his lifelong mission to debunk the myth of de facto segregation and explain how modern day segregation is enforced by US law and policy. Insidious tactics like redlining have contributed to modern day segregation, and it leads to modern school segregation, modern housing segregation and housing discrimination, and so much more. De jure discrimination didn't end with the passage of the Civil Rights Act, it simply became more insidious and baked into the housing, lending and education systems that have prevented Black Americans from earning and keeping wealth. Modern segregation is no less immoral and unjust than explicit segregation, and the entire system needs an overhaul if we are ever to reach true equality and assert that Black lives matter.

Today, nationwide, African American incomes are 60% of white incomes. African American wealth is 10%. That enormous disparity of income and wealth is entirely attributable to unconstitutional federal housing policy.

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