TASK 1:

TASK 2:

“And Ross had not signed a normal mortgage. He’d bought “on contract”: a predatory agreement that combined all the responsibilities of homeownership with all the disadvantages of renting—while offering the benefits of neither.”

I think this quote is clearly representative of how racism endured in this countries institutions. Even though Blacks were not supposed to be discriminated legally, when doing things like buying a house, Blacks had to pay more simply because if they argued, something bad might happen to them.

TASK 3:

“The income gap between black and white households is roughly the same today as it was in 1970. … children born from 1955 through 1970 and found that 4 percent of whites and 62 percent of blacks across America had been raised in poor neighborhoods. A generation later, the same study showed, virtually nothing had changed.”

“Sharkey’s research shows that black families making $100,000 typically live in the kinds of neighborhoods inhabited by white families making $30,000.”

These statistics are very striking to me because they show the complete lack of progress made inequality among races. The second quote connects to the first quote because it shows that even those who make more money still live in impoverished communities.

TASK 5

“We believe white dominance to be a fact of the inert past, a delinquent debt that can be made to disappear if only we don’t look.”

In his explanation of this bill not passing, he portrays that we are not very far off from what we once were in white supremacy. If people lie to themselves and say that its not happening than they feel it isn’t. I’m not sure this is the best explanation for this occurrence. I’m sure it is involved in some way, but politics are very complicated in our capitalist society. I can see how politicians wouldn’t want to pass the bills because that means people will potentially lose money in the future and voters don’t want that.