Unabridged Audiobook
Well written and researched. It covers that erased part of American history not taught in schools. I was shocked by what I learned just after the first 5 chapters alone. If a White family wants to buy a house the bank offered them favorable loans at low interest. If a Black family with the same level of credit goes to buy a similar house the bank offered them sub-par loans at an inflated interest rate! Why? Segregation. These loans are packaged in a pay to own format. And while paying, since they don't fully own the house yet they do NOT get equity on the property during this 25 year period. The end result? The children of the blacks have no wealth to inherit! No headstart in life while their white peers have. In an effort to pay these inflated loans blacks would look for tenants which leads to overcrowding Not to mention that land taxes are higher in black segregated housing so they have less money to spend on the upkeep of their properties much less afford to move out. Thus a ghetto is formed.
Good Read.
If you want to understand the role the Federal Government has played in creating the ghetto around this country, then this is an excellent listen
An excellent reference book that dives into how our country became segregated. It delivered what it promised.
Color of Law is an important book. It lays out ways in which governments and the law have supported and created discrimination, segregation and terror all over the US, from the “liberal" SF Bay Area and NYC to Indianapolis, Atlanta, Austin, Detroit, Seattle. and many places in between. Although the author never uses the word “reparations,” it’s hard to imagine anyone walking away from this book and not supporting the reparations movement. It’s a really powerful, infuriating, heart-wrenching book, one of those books that elicited a head shake or an OMG on almost every page. All US Americans but especially white US Americans should read this book. As was made painfully evident in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, we have a shameful, violent history of racism in this country that continues through today. Color of Law shows us in well documented detail how our state, local and federal governments and other social institutions have been complicit in getting us to this point in time.
Excellent book. Tremendously thorough history of American housing. Explains a lot of our issues today. Even admits the “fix” will not be easy. Do we as a society really want integration? Very serious question we all need to ask yourselves. I would recommend everybody read this.
The book is awesome. The Narrators read 30 hours of Star Trek quotes, and didn't bother to spend 5 minutes on Google to figure out how to pronounce Character and place and other names even remotely correct.
It’s crazy to think how much ignorance on a subject can completely blind us regarding its existence. I am still in shock of the legal and factual evidence demonstrated of the systemic racisms in housing policies that continued to segregate Americans decades past the 13 and 14th amendments. Great book!
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