![]() As Jay-Z said in the New York Times, “you can't have a solution until you start dealing with the problem: What you reveal, you heal.” This is the major challenge at hand: to educate fellow citizens of the unconstitutional inequality that we’ve woven and, on behalf of our government, accept responsibility to fix it. And this will only happen if the majority of Americans understand how we got here. We can compensate for this unlawful segregation through a national political consensus that leads to legislation. An enlightening and an absolute revelation regarding the zoning. ![]() Without being aware of the unconstitutional residential policies the United States government enacted during the middle of the twentieth century, one might have a negative view today of neighborhoods where African Americans live or even of African Americans themselves. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. ![]() Prejudice can be birthed from a lack of understanding the historically accurate details of the past. ‘Segregated By Design’ examines the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy. ![]()
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