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We have very strong evidence that racism has been a major factor in shaping our stingy welfare state, our weak labor unions, and our hyper-local education & land use institutions and what we’re getting is corporate sensitivity seminars and Juneteenth as a white collar day off.
Here’s a great thing @alv9n did for Vox a while back.
How many books urging introspection do you need to read to see the problem with these patchworks of tiny school districts in northeastern suburbs?
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/25/20703660/school-segregation-district-borders-map-data
How many books urging introspection do you need to read to see the problem with these patchworks of tiny school districts in northeastern suburbs?
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/25/20703660/school-segregation-district-borders-map-data
Or here’s @jenny_schuetz showing that approximately no new housing units get built in DC’s richest and most expensive neighborhoods.
Do we need a training on who this hurts or do the people living west of Rock Creek just need to decide if they care? https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/10/08/restrictive-zoning-is-impeding-dcs-goal-to-build-more-housing/
Do we need a training on who this hurts or do the people living west of Rock Creek just need to decide if they care? https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/10/08/restrictive-zoning-is-impeding-dcs-goal-to-build-more-housing/
Perhaps the funniest one of these … how come Santa Monica combined its school district with Malibu rather than with the city it’s adjacent to?
Santa Monica announced they’re adopting the #8cantwait reforms which is nice.
Santa Monica announced they’re adopting the #8cantwait reforms which is nice.
There are progressive hypocrites on race here and then of course there are conservative hypocrites on regulation.
David Marks is one of the few GOP politicians in Baltimore County, MD and he spends his time bragging about exacerbating overregulation. https://patch.com/maryland/perryhall/councilman-marks-downzone-95-acres-along-silver-spring-road
David Marks is one of the few GOP politicians in Baltimore County, MD and he spends his time bragging about exacerbating overregulation. https://patch.com/maryland/perryhall/councilman-marks-downzone-95-acres-along-silver-spring-road
Anyways, I could go on all morning making myself mad but I’ll just say some a ton of the stuff I see (white) aquaintances posting to Instagram lately — all about changing HR practices & behavior in meetings — is the opposite of tackling structural and institutional racism.
Eh, fuck it … I’ll say more.
There’s been a surge of interest in information about the postwar structure of racialized wealth building in the midcentury United States but I think a lot of people aren’t really understanding what Katznelson and others are saying.
There’s been a surge of interest in information about the postwar structure of racialized wealth building in the midcentury United States but I think a lot of people aren’t really understanding what Katznelson and others are saying.
Back in the 1940s and 1950s, my grandfathers (one Jewish, one Cuban) faced a lot of racism in the sense of interpersonal hostility from bigoted people. Much worse stuff than anyone would say today.
But legally speaking they were both white. And that mattered!
But legally speaking they were both white. And that mattered!
As white people they benefitted in a formal, programmatic sense from the postwar welfare state.
People could call them names or slurs or make them feel unwelcome or whatever else they wanted. Nobody could take away their GI benefits or subsidized mortgages. They were white!
People could call them names or slurs or make them feel unwelcome or whatever else they wanted. Nobody could take away their GI benefits or subsidized mortgages. They were white!
With the arm of the state on their side in concrete, material ways they — like millions of other Jewish or Catholic families — were able to raise their living standards and shove their way into the American mainstream despite lots of people being assholes to them.
That was the privilege they enjoyed as white people, not immunity from assholes but legal entitlement to specific kinds of benefits.
Benefits that others were excluded from. And that’s what people need today — tangible things they’ve been denied.
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Benefits that others were excluded from. And that’s what people need today — tangible things they’ve been denied.
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