This Is One Reason Why Places Like Ferguson and Baltimore Have Become Explosive

by Guest Fri May 01, 2015 5:29 pm

Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and senior fellow of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law. He is the author of Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right (Teachers College Press and EPI, 2008) and Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap (Teachers College Press 2004). This article first appeared on the [url=http://www.epi.org/blog/from-ferguson-to-baltimore-the-fruits-of-government-sponsored-segregation/]blog of the Economic Policy Institute

In Baltimore in 1910, a black Yale law school graduate purchased a home in a previously all-white neighborhood. The Baltimore city government reacted by adopting a residential segregation ordinance, restricting African Americans to designated blocks. Explaining the policy, Baltimore’s mayor proclaimed, “Blacks should be quarantined in isolated slums in order to reduce the incidence of civil disturbance, to prevent the spread of communicable disease into the nearby White neighborhoods, and to protect property values among the White majority.

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by Original Quill Fri May 01, 2015 7:13 pm

History News wrote:In the last 50 years, the two societies have become even more unequal. Although a relatively small black middle class has been permitted to integrate itself into mainstream America, those left behind are more segregated now than they were in 1968.

Gives the lie to Chief Justice Roberts, that racial discrimination is all over, innit?

This Is One Reason Why Places Like Ferguson and Baltimore Have Become Explosive

This Is One Reason Why Places Like Ferguson and Baltimore Have Become Explosive

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