While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
When population shifts - brought about by fair housing laws, affirmative action and landmark school desegregation rulings - political power is challenged as well.
We're now segregating our schools based on economics; we're segregating our schools based on where a child's parents live. And it has the same corrosive effect of destroying people's opportunity as racial segregation did.
We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
I'm not saying to you that every element of segregation and discrimination and second-class citizenship has changed. But in the political sense, the world has changed. People now who want to vote can vote.
I think that... discrimination in the job market is a very important area where work needs to be done.
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.
When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.
If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.
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