Briefly Noted

Recently Noted – 1930s Redlining and Segregation Today

Recently Noted – 1930s Redlining and Segregation Today

August 29, 2017

More evidence that today’s segregated America didn’t just happen out of individual choices and preferences. The 1930s redlining of neighborhoods by the Home Owners’ Loan Corp, a New Deal housing agency, has had long term effects of segregating people.


Briefly Noted

Recently Noted – “Making Affirmative Action White Again”

Recently Noted – “Making Affirmative Action White Again”

August 13, 2017

Ira Katznelson (see my earlier post “Affirmative Action for Whites – began in the 1930s”) wrote a brief opinion piece in the 8/13/2017 NYTimes, “Making Affirmative Action White Again” that encapsulates the real history of affirmative action for whites.


Briefly Noted

Recently Noted – about racism

Recently Noted – about racism

August 2, 2017

New Trump focus on race reminds us, “All of the liberal praise for civil rights has produced no results over these six decades excepting the ritualized celebration of African American History Month. This is so embedded in our calendar that even Trump issued another executive order announcing it.”


Racism/White Supremacy

New Orleans, Mayor Landrieu, and the Future of Race in America

New Orleans, Mayor Landrieu, and the Future of Race in America

July 13, 2017

On Friday 5/19/17 Mayor Mitch Landrieu gave a powerful speech about the need to deny the falsifications of history that are those statues and to embrace the phrase, e pluribus unum, from many we are one. The speech is well worth listening to.