The Segregation Myth: Richard Rothstein Debunks an American Lie | NowThis

‘The racial segregation in every metropolitan area in this country was created by racially explicit government policy, designed to create racial boundaries.’ — Segregation expert Richard Rothstein has spent his life debunking the American myth that white and Black people live separately by choice

In US news and current events today, Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law author, continues his lifelong mission to debunk the myth of de facto segregation and explain how modern day segregation is enforced by US law and policy. Insidious tactics like redlining have contributed to modern day segregation, and it leads to modern school segregation, modern housing segregation and housing discrimination, and so much more. De jure discrimination didn't end with the passage of the Civil Rights Act, it simply became more insidious and baked into the housing, lending and education systems that have prevented Black Americans from earning and keeping wealth. Modern segregation is no less immoral and unjust than explicit segregation, and the entire system needs an overhaul if we are ever to reach true equality and assert that Black lives matter.

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[youngwze]

Black people already knew spoke on it but it got dismissed as "playing the race card"....

[quarterblindsocialworker]

I am sending this to everyone who has told me there is no such thing as systemic racism and that no one is trying to keep Black people down and deny them wealth.

[edwardthach]

"It is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man to pull himself up by his own bootstraps" - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[rogatus]

Combine that with the fact that schools get funded based on the housing prices in the neighborhood and you've got a system that effectively disadvantages generation after generation

[j-dubb]

400 years of racism doesn't evaporate in 60 years. The civil rights movement was a step in the right direction but we have more work to do. Anyone that tells you we don't need to do anything and that racism is over is either ignorant or deliberately disingenuous.

[heyheyhey]

When I was a kid, my father wanted to buy a new house. There were certain houses that he wanted in a certain neighborhood and the realtors worked hard to persuade him not to live in that certain area. They made up all kinds of lies like, you couldn’t be approved for the loan and tried to point him in the direction of the “Black side of town”. But my father persisted. He found a new realtor who was a German woman. (I still remember her accent) She just wanted to make a sell, so she gave in and my father finally got what he wanted. THIS is how systematic racism works.

[YoungProfessionals]

This didn’t happen by accident. It’s deliberate redlining

[saltator]

I can clearly remember hearing as a child in the 60s, "I don't have anything against the Negros, but if we start letting them move in, property values are going to go down to nothing! And just think about what will happen to the school system!" I heard it more than once, but in particular I have a dark memory of some lady with a very sweet voice, and my parents and all the adults agreeing with her.

[iceflame]

“You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.”

— Abraham Lincoln

[rosauragarcia]

I read his book “Color of Law” for one of my history classes, and I was shocked to find how different levels of government did everything in their power to keep African Americans segregated in regards to housing. They did this through redlining districts, zoning ordinances. Developers who tried to build housing projects solely for African Americans were met with opposition every step of the way, and most developers would give up with the projects. It’s truly a book I recommend everyone should read.

[atwilliams]

As a black person...this is it!! Ground zero of the racism problem is housing, native Americans need to be spoken of as well.

[almounasaddiyeh]

When we first came to the US we went to search for a future apartment. The woman was very nice while showing it to us and then the bell rang. It was a black couple who also wanted to look at it. The woman dismissed them saying we had already taken it. When the couple left, my dad explained that we had not made a decision yet, and she replied: I know, I told them that because they’re black. We left and never returned there. But that was our first encounter with racism in this country and I haven’t forgotten that to this day.

[kelliehu]

As someone who isn't American, this is one of the first things you notice when visiting America, I never understood why - this is absolutely real.

[jayn]

Yes. Finally someone went out and saw this...only took us 30years

[eliyahubenysrael]

His book is excellent " The Color of Law". He is pointing out institutionalized programs designed with the intention of specific outcomes, which still work today.

[l]

Thank you so much for addressing this situation that most people are happily blind to

[kadivenyc]

It's funny how it wasn't a problem for slaves to live next to they master but once they were free they didn't want them to love live next door from them. Smh

[GoodJuju]

I learned this in college 10 years ago as “redlining”.

[jerrycavanaugh]

Everyone should read his book "The Color of Law." It is an eye-opener.

[adminonline]

This gentleman just laid out the case for reparations in a clear, plain format, without saying the word!