“Wealth is where history shows up in your wallet, where your financial freedom is determined by compounding interest on decisions made long before you were born.” p. 276
I find i am highlighting passages on every page! The metaphor on p. 31 of “the room where it happens” is powerful: three white men, power brokers in government, business and labor, agreeing to a New Deal social contract that invested in our social infrastructure for three decades... until women and people of color started clambering at the door for a seat at the table, and instead of making room, they ripped up the contract and left the room, leaving workers to fend for themselves and bringing on a new era of widening inequality.
Also powerful is a metaphor she runs through the book about communities across the nation building and filling swimming pools as public (social and physical) infrastructure and then literally draining and dismantling them once they became open to non whites. Uses that as a metaphor too to how we used to invest in public college and might have gone the way of universal healthcare but drained the pool in the face of civil rights inclusion and racism against demographic changes. Ruin it for everyone rather than share in benefits for all.
Overall, an easy to read an novel account of how this country’s history has been perpetually shaped by racial divisions strategically sown by those in power, weaving together familiar and new facts and studies about state sponsored segregation and private action into a compelling argument that the great lengths that white communities have gone to to keep schools, jobs and other amenities separate is truly costing all of us in terms of learning, performance, progress and prosperity (on top of racism/segregation’s other costs in terms of loss of life, loss of social and cultural richness, and moral repugnance).
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a complete dismantling of the idea that the majority suffers due to the gains of the minority
“𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅’𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒚, 𝒂 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒚.”There are a few truths that we must face if we want to build a nation that is truly great: we are living on a stolen land built by stolen labor, the freedom and privilege that we enjoy is a product of the exploitation of a racial hierarchy, and we are equipped to dismantle that hierarchy so that all of us, rather than just some of us, can be greater than the sum of us.
Read this for:🌎 a complete dismantling of the idea that the majority suffers due to the gains of the minority💸 compelling truths about the high costs of racism, white supremacy, systemic oppression, and denial in *all* communities – be they white, nonwhite, liberal, conservative🔍 eye-opening clarification about our shared realities and the invisible boundaries we all live within🖊️ top notch writing, research, and accessible presentation- an expert blend of meticulous data analysis, personal experiences, and investigative research.🧭 guidance for realistic, hopeful, multi-racial solutions that can bend the moral arc of our nation back toward justice, and begin to transform AmericaAt this point, anyone who is aware of our nation’s history (and recent history) has been confronted with the hard realities that many of our problems, from housing to healthcare, education, voting rights, clean air, etc – can be traced to racial injustice.Unlock our shared history, and take a closer look at the insidious ways that racial hierarchy has baited the white majority into believing in a false zero-sum model… and then use this book as a guidebook, as a roadmap into what solidarity actual looks like.This is simply excellent.“𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒎 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉.”
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