America’s Only Black Senator Not Invited To MLK Event Because He’s A Republican…

CaptainCourtesy said:

Keep being snarky, mac.

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mac said:

You're very touchy. It was more like friendly prodding than snarkiness.

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CaptainCourtesy said:

OK. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt because, though I disagree with you a ton, you tend to be a good guy.

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CaptainCourtesy said:

OK. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt because, though I disagree with you a ton, you tend to be a good guy.

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Restrictive covenants were introduced in the 1920s. By the 1940s, Chicago led the nation in their use. Racial deed restrictions covered approximately half of the city's residential neighborhoods. Together, the bombings, "neighborhood improvement associations," realtors' sales policies, and restrictive covenants helped create Chicago's first all-black ghetto on the city's South Side. As historian Allan H. Spear explains, the ghettoization of Chicago's blacks "was not the result chiefly of poverty; nor did Negroes cluster out of choice. The ghetto was primarily the product of white hostility..."

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