Roots of segregation. Governments policies pushed it along.
Timely because of the 'death by a thousand cuts' for abortion access even as it becomes a non medical procedure and Trumpcare seeks to remove health care access to low income families.
https://psmag.com/magazine/how-the-us-government-segregated-america
A crucial part of the story that usually gets swept under the rug. We reap what we sow.
ReplyDeleteWhite Americans do not know, and will not sit still to be told that their lives and benefits are theirs because of preferential quotas given them by the use of government. The best kept secret in America is that middle class and wealthy people live well because of government programs, particularly the FHA mortgage guarantee. You just cannot tell a person here that. They reject that truth as impossible.
ReplyDeleteWe are still ruled by southern segregationists. They ordered segregation clauses put into the FHA's programs, or they would not give the New Deal the congressional votes it needed to pass.
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