Social Laundering
You are invited to an article series right here. It is the product of associated pages @Legal4TruthLLC and founder Deliza Elizee, MBA . The series starts... now.
When doing laundry, it is recommended to separate your light colored clothing from your dark colored clothing. That way, the darker colors don't transfer over to the light color fabric. The clothes are all washed the same with the same water, the same soap, fabric softener (if you believe in using fabric softener) and in the same machine. The clothes are treated separate yet equal.
All white clothes get special treatment, they receive chlorine bleach which is a powerful chemical substance that keep those clothes all white. Only chlorine bleach is used for all white clothing. The all white clothing cleaning process is kept separate so that light and dark colored fabric dyes do not transfer over to the all white fabric.
Some readers may be getting the hint that I am using this as an illustrative introduction to the topic of this article series. [All white clothing were kept separate and treated differently from the light and dark colored clothing to keep those clothes all white.] Just replace the word clothing with the words: neighborhoods, suburbs, schools and voting districts.
This series is based off of Richard Rothstein's NY Times Best Seller The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. It is not a book that I would have picked up but it is a great summary of that racial segregation topic that people are still talking about. If you want to keep up in the conversation and know what your talking about when giving an opinion, this level-headed book does the job.
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Tip: Many skip over the preface of a book. In The Color of Law, it is worth reading as it pretty much tells you what the book's tone is not. Here is an excerpt from pages XV-XVI
"We means all of us, the American community. This is not a book about whites as actors and blacks as victims. As citizens in this democracy, we = all of us [...]bear a collective responsibility to enforce our Constitution and to rectify past violations whose effect endure. [...] African Americans cannot await rectification of past wrongs as a gift, and white Americans collectively do not owe it to African Americans to rectify them. We, all of us, owe owe this to ourselves. As American citizens, whatever routes we or our particular ancestors took to get to this point, we're all in this together now."
The series continues next week on Legal 4 Truth LLC page (of which I really do hope you soon follow) and Deliza Elizee's personal LinkedIn account (followers are a free gift that mean a-lot to me).
Work Cited: Rothstein, R. (2018). The color of law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America. Liveright.