“ If Americans understood the origins of overwhelmingly white communities, they might see that such neighborhoods are nothing to be proud of. On the contrary, all this residential exclusion is bad for our nation. In fact, residential segregation is one reason race continues to be such a problem in America. But race really isn’t the problem. Exclusion is the problem. The ghetto-with all its pathologies-isn’t the problem; the elite sundown suburbs-seemingly devoid of social difficulties-is the problem.
James Loewen, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
I just started reading this book to prepare for his visit next week and have already been blown away just by the introduction.
