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Report: Racist Virginia laws are gone, but inequities linger
AP ^ | 02/10/21 | Sarah Rankin

Posted on 02/15/2021 7:38:32 PM PST by Pining_4_TX

Virginia needs sweeping changes to its schools, housing laws, criminal justice system and other areas of policy to remedy the legacy of centuries of government-sanctioned racial oppression, according to a new report the state released Wednesday.

It’s the latest effort of a commission empaneled by Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, which began its work in 2019 with an examination of racist laws that — though long unenforced — had remained on the books.

The report, around 100 pages long and layered with primary sources and historical research, focuses on six policy areas: housing, education, criminal justice, health, environmental justice and agricultural equity. University of Virginia law students worked on the research and drafting that formed the basis of the report, and commissioners arrived at policy recommendations through majority votes after taking public comments and suggestions from advocacy groups.

Wednesday’s report, provided to The Associated Press ahead of its public release, concludes that the impacts of those now-purged laws have persisted in varying degrees, and it recommends dozens of policy changes to “dismantle this structure, and to address the lingering and disparate effects of Virginia’s segregationist past.”

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: crime; education; housing; race
Look out, Virginians. Things are about to get a whole lot worse.
1 posted on 02/15/2021 7:38:32 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

The AP headline is a lie.
Any state that has gun control laws has racist laws.


2 posted on 02/15/2021 7:42:32 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Only a moronic, suicidal group would try a Great Purge 2021 on an armed American. We're ready!)
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To: Pining_4_TX

This from the racist blackface governor and the racist blackface attorney general.


3 posted on 02/15/2021 7:49:15 PM PST by oldbill
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To: oldbill

Some of these proposals are truly insane. They are going to make life hell for landlords. Watch for rental property to disappear or for rentals to become slums.


4 posted on 02/15/2021 7:50:50 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” ~ Yogi Berra)
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To: RandallFlagg
"Any state that has gun control laws has racist laws."

Any state that has abortion-protection laws has racist laws.

Another box checked for VA...

5 posted on 02/15/2021 7:51:40 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: Pining_4_TX

In America, it is up to each i ndividual to make his.own life better.

Not that AP wants to.here that.


6 posted on 02/15/2021 7:53:09 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Where are the dempcrats on renaming all the bridges, roads, buildings and areas and landmarks in West Virginia named after ku klux grand dragon democrat senator Robert Byrd?


7 posted on 02/15/2021 8:09:47 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

When will he resign for his blackface get-up?

Why won’t he resign for pretending to be a black person thinking its just a costume?

Why should he be in a position of power for doing this?

Make them live up to their own standards.


8 posted on 02/15/2021 8:11:29 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Gov. Coonman


9 posted on 02/15/2021 8:52:03 PM PST by trashiscash
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To: Pining_4_TX

[[Report: Racist Virginia laws are gone, but inequities linger]]

Inequalities for black folks? Perhaps it still exists, But honestly- the tide has turned and now it is white folks who are not allowed to dine in restaurants, or walk down the streets without being assaulted (if they are trump supporters-) Who are being assaulted on buses, in parks, pulled from their cars and beaten, Who are beaten up in schools by gangs of black kids, Who are harassed wherever they go by antifa and blm

Inequalities? You betcha- and it’s a two way street- with it becoming pretty dangerous to be a white conservative these days, especially a white conservative Trump supporter


10 posted on 02/15/2021 9:22:52 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Pining_4_TX

How can Virginia reform itself when its governor wore blackface and in violation of his medical Hippocratic Oath, advocates the killing of babies as they are being born or just born; it’s Lt. Gov. is facing two serious allegations of being a rapist; and its Att. Gen. is a hardcore Marxist and possible Soros-buttboy?

I won’t even go into the insanity of the state legislature’s Democrats and increasingly stupid black racist members.

They make the cast of “Alice in Wonderland” seem like sane folks.


11 posted on 02/15/2021 11:41:56 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Pining_4_TX
Inequities linger.

Yes. Hypocrisy and double standards prevail.

Dems get away with everything. Conservatives are ridiculed and silenced.

12 posted on 02/15/2021 11:46:01 PM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: Pining_4_TX

Will whites try to stop the insanity?


13 posted on 02/16/2021 12:31:18 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

The insanity continues and sadly will end up at the barrel of a gun


14 posted on 02/16/2021 2:16:38 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: Pining_4_TX

Northam’s really bending over to kiss black asses since he got caught in blackface.


15 posted on 02/16/2021 4:01:08 AM PST by ronniesgal ( no fool like an old fool!)
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