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grief—a longing that would never abate because home never left a person. The second road, the better road: life. It meant abandoning the idea of home altogether as a social construct designed to hold people captive to places and traditions
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“Only in the United States does our conservative party, with very few exceptions, flat-out deny that there’s a problem. The opposition of the American conservative political movement is the primary reason the United States has not taken stronger legislative action to reduce greenhouse gases; our inaction is one of the main reasons the world has continued to warm. In short, the loss of human and animal life and habitats that we are already experiencing is in no small part due to the American conservative political faction. And that political faction is almost entirely white.”
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
“Status is a rainbow on a proud soap bubble, inflated to its uttermost.”
― The Saint of Bright Doors
― The Saint of Bright Doors
“No governments in modern history save Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany have segregated as well as the United States has, with precision and under the color of law. (And even then, both the Third Reich and the Afrikaner government looked to America’s laws to create their systems.) U.S. government financing required home developers and landlords to put racially restrictive covenants (agreements to sell only to white people) in their housing contracts. And as we’ve already seen, the federal government supported housing segregation through redlining and other banking practices, the result of which was that the two investments that created the housing market that has been a cornerstone of building wealth in American families, the thirty-year mortgage and the federal government’s willingness to guarantee banks’ issuance of those loans, were made on a whites-only basis and under conditions of segregation.”
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
“Recent Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago research has found, with a granular level of detail down to the city block, that the refusal to lend to Black families under the original 1930s redlining maps is responsible for as much as half of the current disparities between Black and white homeownership and for the gaps between the housing values of Black and white homes in those communities. Richard Rothstein, author of the seminal book on segregation, Color of Law: How the Government Segregated America, reminds us that there is no such thing as “de facto” segregation that is different from de jure (or legal) segregation. All segregation is the result of public policy, past and present.”
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
“I’m fundamentally a hopeful person, because I know that decisions made the world as it is and that better decisions can change it. Nothing about our situation is inevitable or immutable, but you can’t solve a problem with the consciousness that created it.”
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
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