The Color of Law (review)
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein
reviewed by Sasha Bley-Vroman
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein
reviewed by Sasha Bley-Vroman
Excperts from keynote presentation made by Avotcja Jitonilro to Pacific Yearly Meeting on July 24, 2021.
These are transcripts of the keynote talks presented to Pacific Yearly Meeting at its 2021 Annual Sessions by Gabriela Portillo Alvarado and Avotcja Jitonilro.
This evening, we were witness to a large community that has grown at Fulton and Larkin streets. There are at least sixty persons currently living at this location.
Description of the upbringing and family of a Kenyan Friend who is seeking to benefit a medical clinic in his home village.
Dear Editor: I am a white male who has enjoyed some reasonable advantages, earned by exploiting opportunities that are often denied inappropriately to people of another race or gender, and I have also experienced prejudice myself, based on less obvious classifications. Even so, systemic racism is a real problem, even if not all challenges faced by people of color are based on race.
Dear Editor: From cover to cover, the September/October 2018 edition of Western Friend made plain the grievous suffering caused by racism. Our racism.
The “Editor’s Desk” listed seventeen countries with active armed conflicts this year. Every nation listed is made up of people of color who have been invaded, conquered, and colonized by white nation states.
Transcriptions of the keynote talks presented to Pacific Yearly Meeting in 2018.
Transcription of the keynote talk presented to Intermountain Yearly Meeting in 2017.
