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When your family's stolen land becomes someone else's wealth

My great-grandmother's land was taken through eminent domain in the 1960s to build a highway that never came, and now my white neighbors are asking me to sign a petition against a affordable housing development because it will hurt their property values.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The weight of historical injustice collides with present-day complicity in systems of exclusion.

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