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[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/06/growing-up-black-in-america-racism-education by Brian Jones 6/6/18 The Guardian] | [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/06/growing-up-black-in-america-racism-education by Brian Jones 6/6/18 The Guardian] | ||
I am a black man who has grown up in the United States. I know what it is like to feel the sting of discrimination. As a middle-class, light-skinned black man I also know that many others suffered (and continue to suffer) a lot worse than me. I grew up around a lot of white people. In elementary school, I remember being told that I was one of the “good ones” – not like the “bad ones” I was meant to understand; I was different. | I am a black man who has grown up in the United States. I know what it is like to feel the sting of discrimination. As a middle-class, light-skinned black man I also know that many others suffered (and continue to suffer) a lot worse than me. I grew up around a lot of white people. In elementary school, I remember being told that I was one of the “good ones” – not like the “bad ones” I was meant to understand; I was different. | ||
=====Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/05/08/991535564/black-americans-and-the-racist-architecture-of-homeownership by Ailsa Chang 8/5/21 npr] | |||
Last summer, DonnaLee Norrington had a dream about owning a home. Not the figurative kind, but a literal dream, as she slept in the rental studio apartment in South Los Angeles that she was sharing with a friend. | |||
