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Introducing “The Sum of Us”

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson

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Social Security, the G I Bill and Affordable Home Ownership

The government purposely omitted black neighborhoods from investment an home ownership. Even the g i bill benefits went through mostly segregated housing and education sectors. So when the civil rights movement brought about the racial integration of this country something else changed. The majority of white people in america stopped supporting the party of the new deal once it also became the party of civil rights. E we must not approach the observance and enforcement of this law in a vengeful spirit. Its purpose is not to punish, but to end divisions which have lasted all too long. its purpose is national, not regional.

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