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A spiral of crime where parents taught their children crime and their children taught their children crime and it kept going.

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- Government cannot be depended on
- Inequalities in the nation creates segregation
- Whites

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Provoking: Vagrancy Laws separated white people and black people and preyed on Black people through the criminal justice system.
Connection: Redlining led to inequality in schools, funding, and financial situations.
Question: What systems or laws can be instituted that could lead to closing wealth gap and further moves towards to racial equality?

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1. Strictly enforcing laws that constantly put them in debt
2. Even when they were able to prosper and start closing the wealth gap, White people found still ways to destroy their wealth and businesses like in the Tulsa Race Massacre
3. What can be done to close the wealth gap that was created for over 300 years.

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1. Crystal bringing up Black wall street and the government giving up on the Freedman's bureau giving birth to vigilante justice like the KKK
2. Charles brought up the idea of redlining and the connection between the desperation of Black kids growing up in red lined communities
3. Is there a way to reverse redlining systems.

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Provoking:
Anti-blackness -> poverty -> desperation -> lower paying jobs
Generational wealth continues to today and furthers the racial wealth gap.
Connection/Realization:
Issues are interconnected
Question:

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1 Question you're walking away with

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- African Americans didn't have any opportunity for education

- Laws were created to keep black people under white people in the social class

-There was a lack of funding that effected the recovery from slavery

-govt stopped supporting former enslaved people and instead created laws that exploited them

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-African Americans couldn't get many jobs because of society sustaining the stereotypes that the African American community is violent-> led to vagrancy laws (Melissa M)
-federal government exploited the African American community instead of protecting African American community with amendments (Jazzlynn)
-Police were designed to perpetuate white supremacy through police brutality (Melissa M)
-Sell drugs to African American community (Julian)

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1. (Charles) No education, may need to use unlawful activities in order to survive

2. (Jacob) Black people unable to progress due to white community

3. Will this war ever come to a close?

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- Reconstruction Era was given up on by the government
- The loopholes in the amendments allowed inequalities to continue to happen
- White people grew desperate in destroying the prosper of Black people (ex: Tulsa, Reconstruction Era)
- Cultural appropriation
- Black people are forced into places where they are monitored by police

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- After abolishment of slavery, Racism got worst

- Abolishment of slavery did not mean freedom for African American Community

- Government created laws that legalized systematic oppression
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Slavery still existed through a loophole in the 13th amendment, a more subtle
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- After abolishment of slavery, Racism got worst

- Government created laws that legalized systematic oppression

- Placed drugs in the African American Communities, excuse to put in prison for forced labor

- Very difficult for a Black person to grow wealth

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Slavery still existed through a loophole in the 13th amendment, a more subtle way of getting free labor through the prison system

Oppression occurred as a way to keep the "White Man's" economy going

Harder to grow wealth, get degrees, careers.

What percent of the top 1% are Black or of African descent?

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Even though slaves were freed, whites made them feel like they were still slaves. They faced new systems of oppression. Segregation, Jim Crow laws and vagrancy laws kept blacks at the bottom of the racial caste system. In modern day the places with drugs are the inner city because people with power, similar to what the south did, put all the problems to the black community. One question I had is how do we overcome the unfairness of wealth in america?  White home owners built their wealth over generations. What is the first step we can take to make sure people of color can start to build wealth in America? One possible connection was redlining and violent crime in america.

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1. The government specific laws to create loopholes to justify enforced labor.

Police are meant to protect an unjust system, not people.

2. no vote = no empowerment

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1. Government used specific laws, used loopholes in a subtle way

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1. The white people found new ways to provoke the black community
2. Drugs were used as a mean of social control during Reagan administration

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Provoking:
-  Modern day "1970-90's the war on drugs Reagan administration,  **13th amendment documentary referred* -> pushed drugs onto black communities to keep them in prison"

-  The wealth gap is continued because there is not the opportunity to build wealth. ex. They were not allowed to sustain themselves in Tulsa. -> wealth is and still is possible but denied.

Connection/ realization:
- The end of slavery did not mean right to "live". True living is to be allowed and accepted in the systems that sustain us. (Health care being provided, job opportunities, housing, etc.)
Question:
- Do you think it is possible to even close the wealth gap current day? If so, where do you think that change would start? With a new president or with a large community action, or both?

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Jacob: Racist whites would destroy any form of Black prosperity

Sunny-- negative perceptions and stereotypes created postwar era, would be used to justify use of force against Black communities.

Jennifer: Lack of funding by Freedmens bureau led to further vulnerability of Black communities. They were exposed to KKK attacks, lynchings, unfair laws, loopholes, etc.

What can we learn from history to help us further progress as society?

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Provoking Comment:
The loophole in the 13th Amendment allowed slavery to take on a new form despite it being abolished. This maintained a racial caste system.

Connection or Realization:
The government cancelled out the Black people's power to vote by taking advantage of the educational inequality and establishing literacy tests or polls.

The Reagan Administration used the same tactics White Southerners did by arbitrarily arresting Black people and using their physical labor for profit.

Questions:
How can we uplift the Black community and make the wealth gap smaller?

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1. (Kenneth) KKK made way for new systems to further suppress Black people.

2. White people took advantage of Black position after slavery. If they could not read, they could not vote due to literary tests at voting booths (Favour) Government benefits off loans from Black people who do not have healthcare (Jaden)

3. How can we change the police system to benefit POC communities? What can we do with funding for POC communities?

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1. thought-provoking
Jaden's point on how yes there was still racism and discrimination even after slavery ended but it was continued because they found a way to work through the 13th amendment to still have slavery through people in prison to be slaves
2. New Connection or realization
That the white upper class would use drugs to control the power and keep the blacks lower and give reason to imprison them so that they could use them a slave because they were inmates
3. Questions
what are some of the ways that the Black community has or could do so that there is not this huge gap of money power in society?