There is an unsavory truth about California's history — the Golden State bears the stain of slavery and its evils are tied to the modern-day suffering of Black residents.
The lingering effects of slavery were policies, like Black Codes, Jim Crow laws and redlining, that kept the dynamics of the institution in place. The repercussions can be seen in everything from higher levels of incarceration to lower average income.
Lynette Mackey, 63, is a San Francisco native. She long remembers the seizure of her childhood home from the Fillmore in 1975, during the city's Urban Renewal phase. "He fought until his death," Mackey said. "Once he passed away, redevelopment said their was no other option we had to give it up."Mackey said her family was told the property would be torn down.She said after the property was renovated, the city offered to sell it back to the family for $500,000.Mackey currently lives in subsidized housing with her grandchildren and homeownership is a distant dream.
He explained further, "when you try to build a highway system, you have to demolish neighborhoods and homes in order to build those highways. And what we found is that the majority of those homes were in African-American communities."
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