Thank you for explaining that blacks did not choose to segregate themselves nor choose to live “just among themselves” as evidenced by the population facts in The Color of Law. Our local, state, and national policies and laws created the inner cities we have today. Segregation policies are still quietly enforced and entrenched in our communities. This book says the quiet part out loud.
I’ve read this book, and have held onto it in my collection. It’s a gem in showing the responsibility our government has for creating the mess they created. I recommend everyone read this book. It’s very enlightening, and very, very sad, but it’s something EVERYONE should be aware of. I would like to share your writings. You’re a brilliant voice of reason and truth in a world full of lies and hatred and cover-ups. Thank you. ♥️
Thank you so much for your enlightening (to say the least) posts revealing the genocidal, racist history of this so called, "land of the free". No wonder the christofascists are banning books, threatening librarians, and teachers. And schools haven't come anywhere near teaching this history...
I am White. 5th-generation Californian. One son is married to a beautiful Asian woman. Niece is married to a wonderful African American man. My closest friend growing up was half-American Indian. These problems with race are so bizarre. What is wrong with people who can’t see beyond skin color? I suspect it is a very low intelligence, and they feel threatened by the financial successes of non-Whites.
This is worth watching... The Color of Law is mentioned, but this provides a larger context: The Deep Roots of Racism in the Christian Church https://youtu.be/g2dBEeMKMuE
Appreciate you sis, so glad to see people trying to educate others on why we are where we are today when it comes to racial injustice and inequity. Far too many forget. Or choose to.
And for some, they just didn’t know. I only in the last decade learned about the Exclusion Act and the history of xenophobia in the US. It wasn’t taught in my history books when I went to school. A great book on the successive waves of xenophobia targeting different immigrants through the history of the US is “America for Americans” by Erika Lee.
One of the worst governmental discrimination policies was denying Black veteran access to the G.I. Bill of Rights for education and home mortgage assistance. For whites vets in 1944, this moved families into the middle class. Although it was a Federal program, states handled the program details.White lenders denied mortgages. Due to segregation laws, Blacks were denied college admission. It was also difficult to get higher paying jobs and they were denied unemployment allowances and did’t receive the promised job search support.
The G.I. Bill of Rights let white people own their first homes, the first step in building generational wealth. For Black Veterans, this was just another example supporting Critical Race Theory.
I'm Richard Rothstein's daughter and his co-author of Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted under the Color of Law (2023). It's a follow-up to the Color of Law, focusing on what we can do today to challenge government-sponsored segregation and remedy its ongoing consequences. If the history recounted in the Color of Law moved you, I hope that Just Action gives you some hope that we can take action to challenge and remedy segregation. (you can find more info at www.justactionbook.org)
Pope Pius XII didn’t want black service members garrisoned in Rome after the liberation of Italy. FDR received all the medal winners of the 1936 Olympics to the White House, all except for the most celebrated athlete of the games, Jesse Owens…the grandson of a slave who had beat all of Hitlers perfect Aryan Ubermen.
After WWII , 1.2 million returning black service members, many who had fought valiantly in segregated units, were denied the GI Bill for home loans. That alone was the origin source of wealth building for what would be the new white middle class…
It’s a much longer lineage than that obviously, but these are events that have occurred with and to folks who are still living witnesses in some cases. And much much of it has been excused and steeped in and enabled by christian nationalistic behavior.
Current and future climate change impact upon People of Color due to redlining (and other policies) are explained quite well in "On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America" by Abrahm Lustgarten. Chapter 4 "An Unfair Advantage" is especially relevant.
This is fucking heartbreaking…and it’s still going on! Thank you…white ppl need to open their closed minds! Or stop watching fox propaganda! It certainly isn’t news!
Thank you for explaining that blacks did not choose to segregate themselves nor choose to live “just among themselves” as evidenced by the population facts in The Color of Law. Our local, state, and national policies and laws created the inner cities we have today. Segregation policies are still quietly enforced and entrenched in our communities. This book says the quiet part out loud.
CellyBlue: Thank you so much for sharing. We really appreciate you!
Truth.
Hey--where you been my friend--missed you in the thread...?
I’ve read this book, and have held onto it in my collection. It’s a gem in showing the responsibility our government has for creating the mess they created. I recommend everyone read this book. It’s very enlightening, and very, very sad, but it’s something EVERYONE should be aware of. I would like to share your writings. You’re a brilliant voice of reason and truth in a world full of lies and hatred and cover-ups. Thank you. ♥️
I’ll have to read this. It sounds more frightening than the Hunger Games districts.
It’s hard to think this nation will ever escape the long shadow of slavery.
Thank you so much for your enlightening (to say the least) posts revealing the genocidal, racist history of this so called, "land of the free". No wonder the christofascists are banning books, threatening librarians, and teachers. And schools haven't come anywhere near teaching this history...
I am White. 5th-generation Californian. One son is married to a beautiful Asian woman. Niece is married to a wonderful African American man. My closest friend growing up was half-American Indian. These problems with race are so bizarre. What is wrong with people who can’t see beyond skin color? I suspect it is a very low intelligence, and they feel threatened by the financial successes of non-Whites.
This is worth watching... The Color of Law is mentioned, but this provides a larger context: The Deep Roots of Racism in the Christian Church https://youtu.be/g2dBEeMKMuE
PS If you are interested after watching the recording, check out Robert P. Jones' Substack, White Too Long.
Appreciate you sis, so glad to see people trying to educate others on why we are where we are today when it comes to racial injustice and inequity. Far too many forget. Or choose to.
And for some, they just didn’t know. I only in the last decade learned about the Exclusion Act and the history of xenophobia in the US. It wasn’t taught in my history books when I went to school. A great book on the successive waves of xenophobia targeting different immigrants through the history of the US is “America for Americans” by Erika Lee.
One of the worst governmental discrimination policies was denying Black veteran access to the G.I. Bill of Rights for education and home mortgage assistance. For whites vets in 1944, this moved families into the middle class. Although it was a Federal program, states handled the program details.White lenders denied mortgages. Due to segregation laws, Blacks were denied college admission. It was also difficult to get higher paying jobs and they were denied unemployment allowances and did’t receive the promised job search support.
The G.I. Bill of Rights let white people own their first homes, the first step in building generational wealth. For Black Veterans, this was just another example supporting Critical Race Theory.
I'm Richard Rothstein's daughter and his co-author of Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted under the Color of Law (2023). It's a follow-up to the Color of Law, focusing on what we can do today to challenge government-sponsored segregation and remedy its ongoing consequences. If the history recounted in the Color of Law moved you, I hope that Just Action gives you some hope that we can take action to challenge and remedy segregation. (you can find more info at www.justactionbook.org)
Good look. Gonna check my local library to see if they can find it for me.
Pope Pius XII didn’t want black service members garrisoned in Rome after the liberation of Italy. FDR received all the medal winners of the 1936 Olympics to the White House, all except for the most celebrated athlete of the games, Jesse Owens…the grandson of a slave who had beat all of Hitlers perfect Aryan Ubermen.
After WWII , 1.2 million returning black service members, many who had fought valiantly in segregated units, were denied the GI Bill for home loans. That alone was the origin source of wealth building for what would be the new white middle class…
It’s a much longer lineage than that obviously, but these are events that have occurred with and to folks who are still living witnesses in some cases. And much much of it has been excused and steeped in and enabled by christian nationalistic behavior.
And, it still is. The top 1% v the rest of us economically!
Current and future climate change impact upon People of Color due to redlining (and other policies) are explained quite well in "On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America" by Abrahm Lustgarten. Chapter 4 "An Unfair Advantage" is especially relevant.
This is fucking heartbreaking…and it’s still going on! Thank you…white ppl need to open their closed minds! Or stop watching fox propaganda! It certainly isn’t news!