[Content Note: Racism; police brutality; violence.]
"Baltimore, not at all uniquely, has experienced a century of public policy designed, consciously so, to segregate and impoverish its black population. ...Certainly, African American citizens of Baltimore were provoked by aggressive, hostile, even murderous policing, but Spiro Agnew had it right. Without suburban integration, something barely on today's public policy agenda, ghetto conditions will persist, giving rise to aggressive policing and the riots that inevitably ensue."—Richard Rothstein, in a must-read essay, "From Ferguson to Baltimore: The Fruits of Government-Sponsored Segregation."
[H/T to Mary D.]
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