It is appalling that a country that rhetorically supports liberty, justice, and freedom continues to ignore the inequities of opportunity that permeate our society. For example, even though Brown vs. Board of Education outlawed de jure segregation of schools in 1954, de facto segregation persists in many schools today (see articles such as "How Much Wealthier are White School Districts than Non-White Ones? $23 Billion, Report Says" (NYT, 2/27/19) - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/education/school-districts-funding-white-minorities.html and "Why are American Schools Still Segregated" (The Atlantic, 11/5/13) - https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/11/why-are-american-schools-still-segregated/281126/). The relationship between educational inequity, red-lining, discrimination in employment, and mass incarceration seems self-evident. Although I'm not an economist, it seems that these problems are costly for our society as a whole. Yet, at least until now, it seems that vested interests are more interested in maintaining the status quo.
It is appalling that red lining is still happening when it comes to "drawing the lines" to determine what school you attend. I have opened a couple of schools years ago and the community always had conversations and were vocal about what they thought. Drawing the line down the middle of a street or around a block was something I never understand the reasoning behind. I just watched 13th over the weekend and it was an eye opening documentary about the prison system.