Mark Cuban Schools Elon Musk:
Part II
Not even trying to hide their racism! “Dealt with” Not “coached” or “worked with” or “loved” but “dealt with” Would Bear say “dealt with”? Shug? “Ball Coach”?
Remember this?
Doesn’t Rand Paul ‘perform’ for donors/boosters?
Experts Weigh In On SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling and What Happens Next?
“The Supreme Court landed an all too-expected blow to racial affirmative action on Thursday. The court ruled that the University of North Carolina and Harvard University’s race-conscious admissions policies violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. The decision severely limits schools’ ability to use race in admissions.“
Great examples of why affirmative action is a good thing?
How the GI Bill’s Promise Was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans
“The sweeping bill promised prosperity to veterans. So why didn’t Black Americans benefit?”
The Contemporary Relevance of Historic Black Land Loss
By 1997, Black farmers lost more than 90 percent of the 16 million acres they owned in 1910.
In a recent study, we used county-level Census of Agriculture data to estimate the value of the lost Black agricultural land from 1920 to 1997. For all counties in each of the 17 (mostly southern) states that comprised over 90 percent of all Black-owned farmland, we calculated the yearly acreage loss, multiplied by the county-level estimate of per-acre land values. We then compounded those land- loss values forward to the year 2020 at a rate of return of 6 percent per year for the appreciation of the land and a rate of return of 5 percent per year for the income the land could provide.
Our results yield a cumulative value of Black land loss of about $326 billion. To put this figure in perspective, if this represented the gross domestic product (GDP) of a country, that country would rank 41st out of 213 countries in the world ranking of GDP in 2020. This would be in the top 20 percent of countries, ahead of South Africa, Finland, and New Zealand.”
Neighborhood Redlining, Racial Segregation, and Homeownership
“In the 1930s, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) drew maps of residential neighborhoods across the United States. The maps classified each neighborhood into one of five categories, from least to most likely to default on a mortgage loan. In those maps, the neighborhoods most likely to default were shaded red and over time these neighborhoods had the largest concentrations of African Americans. Because the lending classifications determined individual access to credit, the residents of redlined neighborhoods paid high interest rates and had a hard time becoming homeowners and keeping their homes in good condition. From 1968 to 1974, Congress passed several federal laws and policies preventing lending discrimination by race and gender, and the pattern of residential segregation started to change.”
‘WHITE FLIGHT’ REMAINS A REALITY
“In the 1960s and ’70s, “There goes the neighborhood” was both a popular punch line and a reflection of real-life unease. Many white homeowners felt fearful when the first minority family moved in down the block, convinced that it meant the area—and the value of their property—would quickly deteriorate.
Today, plenty of minorities are in the middle class (or beyond); such a demographic shift no longer signifies socioeconomic decline. So, aside from pure prejudice, there’s no clear reason why “white flight” should persist.
And yet, a new study that examines residential segregation in America’s suburbs concludes that it very much does.”
There is never a lot of diversity at @GOP gatherings. I have spotted a pattern!
Count the minorities:
I grew up in a cotton mill village in Alabama in the 1960s. I know what the terms “red-lining”, “white flight”, “Red Summers”, and “land theft” mean.
