Thursday, July 11, 2019

The Douglass Plan | Pete For America


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The Douglass Plan | Pete For America: A Comprehensive Investment in the Empowerment of Black America
"After the accumulated weight of slavery and Jim Crow, America cannot simply replace centuries of racism with non-racist policy; it must intentionally mitigate the gaps that those centuries of policy created."  Pete Buttigieg


It's not just slavery. In 1949 our parents signed lease-purchase agreements in Levittown, NY that contained a promise to sell only to Caucasians.  Levittown is 98% white today.  Black and Latin people were denied the home equity that fueled our prosperity.  - gwc

p.s. - want to know more?  See Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law for the story of the white suburbs

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