Is the rise of "safe spaces" bringing back the era of segregation?

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186. You don't understand either racism or institutional racism.

What you really need is history education.

Racism is built into the structure of our society, regardless of whether individual white people engage in personally racist acts or not. The racism against black people happens without active participation from many white people at all. That does not clear white people at all of responsibility. Many colleges and universities are just beginning to come to understand how their success and finances were built on the slave trade, as George Washington University has done quite recently.

It is white privilege, which manifests itself in many ways.

One historical example: Many whites made their way into relative wealth coming out of the Great Depression and WWII with guaranteed housing loans through HUD via the GI Bill. Those loans were not only denied black GIs, the mortgages for whites depended on them not living near blacks. Minority neighborhoods had bright red lines drawn around them on maps, and no black people were offered federal mortgages. This increased wealth gaps between blacks and whites, with all the attendant racial issues that derived from that. This was official US policy.