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Comment by alanmessey

You make it sound kind of like a random happenstance that the 'natural process' didn't happen organically for African Americans. I'd like to point out that it was actively thwarted by:

* The FHA and redlining * the backlash to Reconstruction (Jim Crow segregation) * no compensation for harms of slavery, discrimination, etc (despite other groups getting financial compensation; eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Liberties_Act_of_1988) * lack of protection of suffrage until the VRA in 1965 (despite the 15th amendment)

just to name a few.

parent alanmessey 5 years ago

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