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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