I have been doing a lot of consideration lately about racism. Read "Between the World and Me" recently and this particular passage stuck with me. 

They were utterly fearless. I did not understand it until I looked out on the street. That was where I saw white persons pushing double-wide strollers down gentrifying Harlem boulevards in T-shirts and jogging shorts. Or I saw them lost in conversation with each other, mother and father, while their sons commanded entire sidewalks with their tricycles. The galaxy belonged to them, and as terror was communicated to our children, I saw mastery communicated to theirs. 

And so, when I remember pushing you in your stroller to other parts of the city, the West Village, for instance, almost instinctively believing that you should see more, I remember feeling ill at ease, like I had borrowed someone else's heirloom, like I was traveling under an assumed name. All this time you were growing into words and feelings; my beautiful brown boy, who would soon come into the knowledge, who would soon comprehend the edicts of his galazy and all the extinction level events that regarded you with a singular and discriminating interest. 

You would be a man one day and I could not save you from the unbridgeable distance between you and your future peers and colleagues, who might try to convince you that everything I know, all the things I'm sharing with you here, are an illusion or a fact of a distant past that need not be discussed.

To some degree, I've seen the same principle from being a woman, from being around men who consider themselves to be masters of life, and all others, including females to be lesser. And I might feel the same way if I went into an all black neighborhood, feeling that those that live in that area are the ones in control and I am the interloper. 

A couple of years ago I read "Slavery by Another Name". What was particularly disturbing to me in reading that book was how paltry my own education had been, because I honestly believed, like a magic wand, that once the North won the Civil War, ALL SLAVERY stopped. It didn't. Even, Teddy Roosevelt, who has been a hero of mine did not actively and consistently work for black suffrage and against the peonage system. 

Roosevelt’s attitudes on race fluctuated, though he was generally considered a moderate during his era. As governor of New York, he ended school segregation. Just one month after Roosevelt was sworn in as President, he invited Booker T. Washington, a black civil rights activist, to dine at the White House. The resulting uproar over the perceived impropriety appeared to restrain Roosevelt, who never repeated the invitation. While Roosevelt appointed progressive judges and initially encouraged the prosecution of peonage cases in the South, his administration eventually retreated from these efforts, lacking the political will to uproot the systems of involuntary servitude that existed in the South.

June 2015- Can cities use low -income housing for segregation? No

the Dallas group, Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., maintained that its case was too important to drop, notwithstanding the risk of a ruling that could change the rules for the Fair Housing Act nationwide.

It sued over the way Texas distributed federal tax credits aimed to encourage low-income housing developments. Those credits had most often gone to projects slated in Dallas’s most distressed neighborhoods, areas that also tended most often to already be mostly black. They argued that low-income housing should be scattered across the city so that poor people could have a wide range of places to live.

They also argued that the system then in place tended to keep housing in Dallas segregated by race, since the majority of those who qualify for housing subsidies are black or latino. That was the so-called disparate impact that gave rise to the suit.

How much were slaves worth?

One list containing details of slaves to be bought for Perrin's plantation included entries such as "Dick, 25, able field negro, 140 pounds" and "Castile, 45, cook and washerwoman, 60 pounds." The total valuation for 54 male and female slaves came to 5,100 pounds, which researchers say is equal to around 500,000 pounds ($782,000) today.

"What these letters reveal, apart from a total lack of empathy for their human commodities, is the sheer amount of money involved," said Kathryn McKee, a librarian at the college who acquired the papers. "Many anti-slavery campaigns were grassroots efforts by ordinary people, while the pro-slavery lobby had significant wealth and influence they could use to exert pressure on parliament."