The Color of Law discussion

Read Chapters 5 - 7.

In Chapter 5, Rothstein discusses how neighborhoods continued to keep minority individuals out despite the law by creating restrictive covenants. However, deeds with this legal jargon can continue to cause difficulties in neighborhoods that this affected. How can be help remove this legality without the great expense that is typically attached?

In Chapter 6, white flight and the conditions of neighborhoods becomes the center of conversation specifically around the federal policy that allowed this to occur. Now that minority individuals own homes on contract in these neighborhoods, how can we create flourishing neighborhoods rather than slum conditions that Rothstein refers to?

In Chapter 7, Rothstein shows that redlining continues to be an issue even into the 21st century with "reverse redlining" exploitative loans. How can we change the malpractices that are continuing to face our neighborhoods?

Shelter Force discusses in this article (https://shelterforce.org/2005/01/01/p...) about the effects that predatory lending caused and is still causing. Center for Social Innovation gives providers some resources on how to combat racism within homeless programs - http://center4si.com/wp-content/uploa....

As Nelson Mandela puts it, "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

Next week, we will be reading Chapters 8-10!