Since the abolition of slavery, black people have asked for, organized for, and demanded many large-scale interventions that might address poverty, crime, and severe social and economic inequalities. As Carol Anderson explains in White Rage, we have met enormous, sometimes violent, resistance at every turn. We’ve been told that we are undeserving or that necessary programs or public investments are too expensive. Funding for schools, decent housing, job creation, drug treatment, mental health, and trauma support in black communities is almost always in short supply. And yet, our nation has
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