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The United States was founded on the noble idea that people have “certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Each of these three unalienable rights—so essential to the American character that the founders saw them as God-given—requires a stable home.
Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
modern-day eugenics enrolls each of us in its blood-soaked imagination—asking us to shoulder social problems, inviting us to purchase an illusion of safety, making any demand for robust public investment in the goods, services, and infrastructure required for everyone to live well appear unimaginable.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
the case that what we called Du Bois’s theory of racial cooperative economic development,7 combined with Hogan’s theory of Black self-help and the model of Mondragon Cooperative Corporation among the Basque people in northern Spain,
Jessica Gordon Nembhard • Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
African Americans need another way to a comfortable life and some wealth other than the path technocracy offers. And the children of the industrial working class are thought of as the moral descendants of the Scots-Irish, a class that was once despised. Because this class is about 30 percent of the American population while African Americans are 13
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
As late as 1960, median rent in Detroit was higher for Blacks than for whites. In The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson sums up the pattern: “The least-paid people were forced to pay the highest rents for the most dilapidated housing owned by absentee landlords trying to wring the most money out of a place nobody cared about.” As the Black pop
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