U.S. News & World Report, August 17, 2020: How the U.S. Government Promoted Housing Segregation in America’s Cities
THE UNITED STATES’ history of systemic racism has come to the forefront in recent months. Nationwide protests, sparked by the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd, have largely been focused on police brutality.
Yet another form of racial injustice has largely been left out of the conversation: segregation, says Richard Rothstein, a distinguished fellow at the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute and author of “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.”
“It’s not being talked about enough,” Rothstein says. “The attention to racial inequality that the Black Lives Matter movement has generated provides the opportunity to begin to consider the underlying residential segregation that perpetuates so much of the inequality, including police abuse, in this country.”
