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You're hearing a lot of talk about how America is "divided."
This is too sloppy and too simplistic. America is racially segregated. It has a long history of sundown towns, racial zoning, racially restrictive covenants.
It's American Apartheid that's the root of the "division."
This is too sloppy and too simplistic. America is racially segregated. It has a long history of sundown towns, racial zoning, racially restrictive covenants.
It's American Apartheid that's the root of the "division."
Another simplistic buzzword is "polarization." Nah son.
White Americans created a spatialized regime that allows gerrymandering that ultimately leads to political polarization. I see some political scientists acting like polarization sprung up out of thin air.
White Americans created a spatialized regime that allows gerrymandering that ultimately leads to political polarization. I see some political scientists acting like polarization sprung up out of thin air.
The challenge for Americans at this time is to go beyond the sloppy and simplistic explanations for what's going on. Words like "division" and "polarization" are another way papering over America's infatuation with spatially segregating Black people into inferior redlined spaces.
When you make "division" and "polarization" the issue, you make it seem like all we need to do is come together and sing kumbaya.
When you say American Apartheid is the root cause, then you force America to reckon with it structural & spatial sins against Black & Native people.
When you say American Apartheid is the root cause, then you force America to reckon with it structural & spatial sins against Black & Native people.
