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When Michele Mitchell sat down to study history with her daughter last spring, she assumed the third-grade book wouldn't say much about black history. But she wasn't prepared to read that slaves were "brought" here to "help" others.
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4 years ago
When we put our historic-neighborhood house up for sale, we were admonished, "don't sell to black, now..." Not "blacks", but "black". Anyone who's lived in the south awhile will recognize the phrase.
My feeling was I'll sell to whoever brings the right price -- green is the color that concerns me. But rather than try to re-educate white retirees, I kept quiet.
Economic discrimination.... right. Still injustice, no matter what adjective is used.
4 years ago
Also there's a good piece on integration and white flight over at the Niggerati Network (Earl Dunovant's new group blog, in addition to Prometheus 6).