Author: dientedeleon21

The parameters of American democracy correlate neatly with the parameters of the nation’s racial hypocrisy.
— Read on www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-black-history-should-already-have-taught-us-about-the-fragility-of-american-democracy

Policing the Block: Pandemics, Systemic Racism, and the Blood of America – Sewell – 2020 – City & Community – Wiley Online Library
— Read on onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cico.12517

“The whole point of this book club is really to start asking those questions of, ‘How did we get here?’”
— Read on www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2020/10/13/atlanta-planning-color-of-law.amp.html

Black homeowner, 2 appraisals, $62,000 difference – Chicago Sun-Times
— Read on chicago.suntimes.com/platform/amp/2020/10/7/21493755/chicago-home-appraisal-black-race-homeowners

4 Funny Feelings About 2020
— Read on www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2020/10/06/four-notes-election-reporter-notebook-426599

A new generation of activists is trying to figure out where to concentrate its efforts. Residential desegregation is the final frontier.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/opinion/sunday/blm-residential-segregation.html

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Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Chenjerai Kumanyika explain how American policing grew out of efforts to control the labor of poor and enslaved people.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/video/history/perspective–the-origins-of-policing-in-america/2020/09/24/2c36ea1c-1da0-4911-bb27-fdbfb70f24b0_video.html

Racism is harmful. Divisive anti-racism is harmful too.
— Read on medium.com/progressively-speaking/message-to-white-allies-from-a-black-racial-dialogue-expert-youre-doing-it-wrong-39c09b3908a5

The era of data-driven deportation has begun.
— Read on slate.com/technology/2020/09/palantir-ice-deportation-immigrant-surveillance-big-data.html