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Alright folks - if you've been in the @ThrivanceGroup's #DICEEthics Seminar with @DrDesThePlanner here is your reading list, cultivated from over 50 pages of Chat logs. Let's go.
First topic - Ariana Brown and her work on community, arianabrown.com
Next up: Kimberley Jones - How Can We Win - what are the acceptable forms of protest when communities are consistently rendered hopeless?
this is a wild dynamic that shows up in so many of these testing studies re: housing discrimination. In these cases, "testers" pretend to be looking for a home or a house to rent, and the property managers are often *nice* to the tester they have no intention of ever renting to. 
a few years back, Urban Institute did a study like this, where they sent "testers" to inquire about homes to rent/buy. They sent white testers and testers of color, w the same financial credentials. They did this thousands of times across more than two dozen cities in the US.
We had a conversation on the podcast about the racialization of dog breeds, where we talked to @BronwenDickey, the author of Pitbull: The Battle Over an American Icon.
In the 1930s, Pitbulls — which, as Bronwen pointed out to me over and over, don’t constitute a dog breed but a shape — used to be seen as the trusty sidekick of the proletariat, the Honda Civic of canines. (Think of “the Little Rascals” dog.)
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That began changing in the postwar years and the rise of the suburbs. A pedigreed dog became a status symbol for the burgeoning white middle class. And pitbulls got left behind in the cities.
this feels...familiar.
jokes aside...we're currently looking to buy a house. (it's not a situation i ever really figured i'd find myself in given where and how i grew up.) this process has only underlined how wrongheaded the idea is that creating more Black people homeowners might solve the wealth gap.
the appreciation in "value" of a house we saw listed in Neighborhood A (which like all of DC until recently was mostly/all Black but is now gentrifying) over just three years was equivalent to nearly a third of the *total* value of some of the homes we saw listed in SE.
This is v. important.
Black voting behavior is unique in that there aren’t huge splits by gender and geography, even while there’s tremendous ideological diversity among Black voters who lean overwhelmingly Democratic. We all get that. (And there are mechanisms to police that behavior.)
But listening to @cmMcConnaughy’s points about this, you start to see how there aren’t the same mechanisms binding the voting imperatives of the liberal white woman who lives in Philly and went to Penn and the white evangelical lady from Stone Mountain, Ga.
i said this backwards: the notion that racism (and specifically antiblack racism) is a central part of American life is a feature of Black conservatism — and that notion is pretty incompatible with white conservatism.
And this is, again, why you have plenty Black folks with conservative leanings who will never vote Republican. Movement conservatism is organized around the imperatives of whiteness — it's why, for example, the NRA didn't rally around the case of Philando Castile.
Kanye embracing Trump won't break some taboo and bring more Black folks into the Republican fold, which is what a lot of conservative pundits seem to think. It will ultimately only end up getting Kanye disinvited from the cookout.
1. Violence perpetrated by agents of the state has vastly different repercussions for communities than violence committed by members of the public against other members of the public. There are no real avenues/mechanisms for accountability with regards to the former.
1b) A cop kills or mains someone and not only is it certain they will never face consequences, but that killing will likely be officially justified and widely defended.
Imagine one citizen fatally shooting another because they thought a phone was a gun.
Imagine one citizen fatally shooting another because they thought a phone was a gun.
2. Police violence and community violence are actually *~the same problem.~* A community subjected to bad policing — violent arrests or antagonistic, unnecessary contact — is not, magically, getting *effective policing* when they need to report an actual crime.
So this Kanye story is about #housingsegregationineverything.
first, let's stipulate that *all* groups do intragroup policing to establish and re-enforce group norms.
There is no racial group as partisan as Black folks are in national elections; they/we are deeply Democratic.
Now, some of that is THIS:
Now, some of that is THIS:
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act.
In 2018, the homeownership gap between Af-Ams and whites is greater than it was when the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968.
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#FairHousingIs50 #housingsegregationineverything
In 2018, the homeownership gap between Af-Ams and whites is greater than it was when the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968.
bit.ly/2t9eV2V
#FairHousingIs50 #housingsegregationineverything
At almost every stage of searching for a place to live and in every part of the country, black ppl face more constrained choices about housing. They are more likely to be told by real estate agents that homes or apartments aren't available.
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They are more likely to be denied loans to buy homes than white people, even when they have the same incomes and financial histories as white loan applicants.
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