Did You Know?
The Underwriting Manual of the Federal Housing Administration recommended that highways be a good way to separate African-American from white neighborhoods. (Rothstein, Richard, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Liveright Publishing Corp, 368 pages, 2017)
What is?
Race: A category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits. (Nationalgeographic.com) It creates new forms of power: the power to categorize and judge, elevate and downgrade, include and exclude. (Kendi, Ibram X, How to be an Antiracist, One World Publishing, NY, 2019, Chapter 3
Redlining: refusing a loan or insurance to someone because they live in an area deemed to be a poor financial risk. (Oxford Languages)
Food for Thought
No one becomes a racist or anti-racist. We can only strive to be one or the other. Being an anti-racist requires persistent self-awareness, constant self-criticism, and regular self-examination. (Kendi, Ibram X, How to be an Antiracist, One World Publishing, NY, 2019, Chapter 1)