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Richard Rothstein dives into potential solutions, focusing on integration efforts under housing funding project limitations under Section 8. The main issue would be people seeing the financial incentives as handouts!

Overall, Rothstein argues that congress is obligated to reverse segregated housing by actively making change in policy and funding, as sort of reparations, to guide the nation going forward.

Unions were segregated! At least until the 70s! Therefore, alongside the fact that Black people struggled to get any job and, if they could, got the worst and least-paying ones, they couldn't save up to build up generational wealth!

Alongside paying higher rent and getting less services (due to lacking Union membership, lacking government investment), the effects of housing segregation impact black people TODAY.

Dumb ass white people in the 1900s vandalize homes purchased by Black people or with homes recently moved into by black families.

Methods ranged from throwing rocks through their windows to literally fucking blowing up houses and killing families inside.

Cops are happy not to arrest anybody nor do prosecutions ever take place except for those that sell homes to blacks or the black families themselves!

White people, am I right?

Government agencies find any and all loopholes they can to resist equality legislation, from septic/plumbing systems refusing to serve black neighborhoods to requiring unachievable/endlessly expensive documentation and loopholes to building highways as borders between White and Black neighborhoods, these damn White people use all their power and energy to enforce and maintain segregation...

Public Works Association projects “respected” racial segregation tendencies for the sake of “racial happiness” or “prosperity,” in the mid 20th century.

Presidents and the majority of any aspect of the federal or state US governments were just. Racist. Full stop. Damn!

Zoning, redlining, and other practices enforce segregation.

Hazard waste facilities in black neighborhoods specifically.

Damn!!!

Explicit government regulations made it impossible for black workers to get loans to actually get housing, World War II government restricted buildings civilian homes which is interesting, union of automotive workers forced Henry Ford to keep black workers even after the war ended, Black folks would drive hours to work there for the solid income. White flight -> blockbusting inflated house sales to desperate blacks.

Rothstein plans on proving that segregation is de jure not de facto, began explaining the history of segregation in Virginia,

explaining the World War 2 boat manufacturing industry in the state and how worker compositions built up more and more black as Black people sought labor from the south with their lacking education, at the time government explicit segregation took place throughout the state.

OK, it definitely picked up once the game started to go supposedly hunt it down by the judge, or at least kill by the Yuma natives. The kid is pretty cool, especially when the judge starts hunting him down. honestly I don’t know where this is gonna go from here…

Glanton sends his dudes into a town, they all get arrested bc they’re menaces, and Glanton starts interrogating like the mayor or someone of the town about where they are

As always, the judge is platitudes and vocabulary is always mesmerizing to listen to. Also dude said war is the ultimate game of life, and that games are infinitely more honorable than work and are how humans are to be judged, that morality is a weak man’s game, etc. Also don’t be fooled he’s not like a macho man he’s just a psycho (though hes a genius and big as hell)

They save dr., rape natives, move on

Friendly reminder all the time that in spite of their brutal living conditions they still manage to be racist 😭

Sick dude on a horse horse dying uh yeah

Glanton Gang massacres a merchant group of Natives while moving along a cliffside such that they all fall down the mountain bleeding everywhere.

They go into another Mexican town and are treated as heroes for bringing the Native scalps as proof of their chivalrous, valorous, honorable, and no doubt heroic work!

Scalping and barfighting…

The Kid spoke in his Wretched Spanish. lol.

As with The Road, I’m again warming up to McCarthy’s prose style (read aloud, in the audiobook, not reading directly off the page!!!). It’s kind of satisfying in its gritty yet poetic feel.

Judge has killed another kid, and that’s particularly bad despite the previous day the entire gang massacred the native village savagely? Probably implicit that he raped him too tho…

He’s still def interesting…

More traveling along the road in Mexico presumably heading southward, plenty of more gore to highlight the brutality of the frontier…

The story picks up with the focus on the judge. Him and his buddy in Europe, learning customs & languages makes him interesting. He’s like a bizarre super intelligent demon, also HE killed that boy? I didn’t clock that while walking in the rain, listening to the audiobook, lol

Cormac McCarthy loves writing about dirty dusty crusty musty sandy nasty bloody gritty stuff huh

Wow, Vivenna’s Adventure has really been lovely lately! Another plot twist to accompany the other plot twist!

I swear, if Siri actually fucks the god king after all that good stuff about planning and resisting the priests…

Wow! Plot twist! So Vivenna just has nowhere to go now, then. Brutal.

Ouuu shi. Blushweaver Goddess of Anime Body Proportions, calls Siri a slut.

Meanwhile, Siri lies to Bluefingers ab Susebron, and still doesn’t know what happens to each god king upon having an heir.

Ooh shi. No not in that way. You damn pervert.

Vivenna is getting serious. Hamon training arc starts now!!!

Also, everything with the Idrian slums feels very topical. Interesting!

Also also, Idrian royalty comes from the first returned. And Vivenna now knows Clod’s code! And I have a feeling Clod is the body of Shara…Sasha…Shalashaska…whoever that dead person who made Nightblood was. Interesting!!!

Susebron putting his arm on Siri’s shoulder was sweet.

Vivenna also reminds me of Caitlyn from Arcane. That’s the idea of her in my head for the most part. For some reason, though, otherwise, I mostly just take everything in auditorially without much mental visualization. Oh yeah and I somewhat had the image of Nemesis from Fire Emblem for Susebron initially.

Anyway, it’s good rn. Lightsong is investigating!!

Bell Hooks discusses how black women were not identified among the term “women” generally speaking, in society, back since the late 20th century.

In literature, work, and political activism, racism effectively divided women as white women complained about working with “blacks” in factories during WW2 and refused black membership in feminist groups, black women were put under the umbrella term “blacks.“

Ooh, interesting…

Also, Vivenna. LOCK THE FUCK IN ALREADY. USE THE BREATHS! THE BREATHS!

They really got Siri out here doing a nude dogeza. Hashtag! Geeked!

Also, Vivenna going on her mission is cool.

Also, Siri why don’t you just ask your servants to at least pretend to be normal and chat around you if you want them to, lol. The whole point is that they do what you want.

But anyway, it’s good so far. I have a feeling it’s gonna be cool when Lightsong gets off his ass and does stuff lol.

She just would not stop yapping about matriarchy and how it’s not real and how actually our government is patriarchal,

so I just skipped the section and fast forwarded to the bits on sexist progressivism, all the while putting on blast Malcolm X MLK prophet Muhammad and every other 20th century black activist which is fascinating to see.