And it's not a surprise that the movement to unmake public goods that were the bedrock of midcentury prosperity started when the Supreme Court ruled that "public" includes Black people.
The point is to re-segregate of course
Honestly, I don't understand how so many (intelligent) WP still don't see this glaring truth!
*nods in closed public swimming pool that was later filled in with concrete*
Yes. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Paperback – February 8, 2022 by Heather McGhee
Track the destruction of public pools in the US after desegregation. It's eye-opening.
Racism is really the Original Sin of USA. Not everything bad about the US is due to racism, but an awful lot of *is*.
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“municipalities across the U.S. decided to drain their public swimming pools for a far more cynical reason: They didn’t want to comply with desegregation.” www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
They were once landmarks in American cities. Their disappearance shows us how racism can drive policy—even in health care.
