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In reply to the discussion: DeSantis on Critical Race Theory [View all]

ShazamIam

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4. Critical Race Theory is the identity banner of the white supremacists. And there is a book, that ...
Wed Mar 24, 2021, 02:00 PM
Mar 2021

documents how race/religion/culture discrimination was codified into laws all across our nation.

I recommend it to anyone who has a good friend or family member who denies how entrenched racism is in U.S. law.

The book is well documented and sources the laws that specifically excluded individuals based on race in particular.

Book name: The Color Of Law, A forgotten history of how our government segregated America.
Author: Richard Rothstein.
Liveright Publishing Corp, Div. of W. W. Norton & Company
Publish date: 2018
It makes me so sad and angry I have go keep putting it down, then wait a while before I can continue.

It is a book to gift to deniers.

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