The Color of Law discussion

Read Chapters 8 - 10.

In Chapter 8, Rothstein discusses the local tactics that different cities continued to create segregation and it wasn’t just federal laws that caused this exclusion. How can we locally combat this segregation and redlining?

In Chapter 9, violence becomes the forefront of the conversation. This has dovetailed into the high rate of minorities involved in our legal system. How do we combat racial targeting in our world today?

Chapter 10 discusses the suppressed incomes that faced African Americans then and continues to face individuals now. How do we change the pay gap and fight to create justice?

The NCRC has tons of research specifically around redlining and how it affects cities today. Check it out here : https://ncrc.org/how-1930s-discrimina.... Jeff Olivet talks about the connection between incarceration and homelessness in this HuffPost article (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-o...). Lastly, check out the research put together by Pew Research around pay gap both in gender and race (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/...).

Let's take some wisdom from Maya Angelou, "We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising."

Next week, we will be reading Chapters 11-12!