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In 1933, faced with a hous­ing short­age, the fed­eral gov­ern­ment began a pro­gram explic­itly designed to increase — and seg­re­gate — America’s hous­ing stock. One author Richard Roth­stein says the hous­ing pro­grams begun under the New Deal were tan­ta­mount to a “state-​sponsored sys­tem of segregation.”

Dwight David “Ike” Eisen­hower, GCB, OM was an Amer­i­can army gen­eral who served as the 34^th Pres­i­dent of the United States from 1953 (about the time when the say­ing “Pull your­self up by your boot­straps” was coined) to 1961.This is not where my mem­ory of pol­i­tics starts, but needs to be added for a con­si­tance point of view

In the United States, redlin­ing is the sys­tem­atic denial of var­i­ous ser­vices by fed­eral gov­ern­ment agen­cies, local gov­ern­ments as well as the pri­vate sec­tor either directly or through the selec­tive rais­ing of prices. You know about the social side, but few talk about the eco­nomic silent war that been waged. So, that was not the start or all that happened.

I’ve been asked why do you keep say­ing [so-​called] when talk­ing about peo­ple! I’m hop­ing that the cog­ni­tive dis­sonace is not so ingrained that you will not be able to under­stand this sim­ple con­cept. I had a con­ver­sa­tion with a young lady who, after me stat­ing that I was a brown man, said “No you are a black man.” At this point I nor­mally would say “You need to go back to the 1^st grade and review the les­son given to you about col­ors” or “Please take these crayons and take long look in the mir­row” For­tunetlly, this works if you belive that you are black or white. If the prob­lem is just that these words have become the cus­tom for brown peo­ple, because we have been using this term which saw it’s begin­ings use in the 1960’s, how much more can we expect that the cog­ni­tive dis­so­nance of so called white peo­ple must be. What seem to hap­pen in my case is that I lose favor with many of my rela­tion­ships. Some­times I even think some of them might think that I’m what one would call an uncle Tom.