After reading through and watching videos from this semester, I learned that one of the reasons schools are still segregated goes back to the 1900s when suburbs and metropolitan areas were segregated through federal, state, and local policies. I was surprised that realtors and those in charge were able to get away with this blatant segregation, even after the abolishment of slavery. I had not previously known about redlining, or maybe I learned it a long time ago and forgot. But I was shocked that these policies were allowed to be implemented. Redlining is the process of denying someone a home loan based on their race. This meant that people of color had a much harder time acquiring property, as they could not get loans. White people were able to acquire 98% of home loans and use this access to property to overtime generate more wealth. The government would also separate housing authorities, and give white people the best properties for these projects and people of color the worst areas. This led to overcrowding and black people not being able to acquire wealth. As they were paying more money for horrible living conditions. All of this housing segregation that took place in the past is still affecting people today, even though redlining was outlawed.
I learned these policies were accepted by judges because they deemed these housing laws as private agreements. I became more aware of how housing segregation leads to segregated schools. It is like a domino effect. If you segregate the housing market and only make homes available to African Americans in places where they are crowded, and there are fewer services, then all these children will be in the same schools. Then these schools will have less money from property taxes because these homes are worth less money than their white counterparts. Then since funding in these schools is less, these students will have less access to resources and teachers will get paid less.
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