«“[Medicaid] State adoption decisions are positively related to white opinion and do not respond to nonwhite support levels,” they [Grogan and Park] concluded.»
#theSumOfUs
I.e., it’s up to us white people, again.
Wait, that sounds bad. What I mean is, we need to act. We can’t just wait for Black people to ask hard enough while we do nothing.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/15/us/racist-deeds-covenants/index.html
«The federal government in 1934 endorsed such segregation by refusing to underwrite mortgages for homes unless a racial covenant was in place. Then in 1948, following activism from black Americans, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled these covenants unenforceable.»
Did not know. ☹️ I had assumed it was just individual HOA types, not THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
On a somewhat related note: I wonder just how much our supreme court is going to roll back.
I see a lot of posts on Mastodon from people happily focusing on the win by Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal state supreme court justice. A LOT.
And, yes, that’s a great thing. Positive national implications.
And exactly one post about the ballot measures, which were also passed. Which inspired me to do a little googling.
https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_2023_ballot_measures
Wow, this seems pretty poisonous. Enshrining cash bail in the state constitution and making it harsher than before, if I understand correctly. Why is that necessary? How will it not disproportionately harm Black people in application? Was that just to drive conservative turnout up? Why did they pass?
https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/fast-facts-the-questions-on-wisconsins-spring-2023-ballot/
This just seems like Racism Without Racists, which is the title of a book by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (which I won’t link because three links is too many).
Here, Read This 