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Why charitable giving doesn't resolve personal segregation

I donate to civil rights organizations but I still live in an all-white neighborhood and send my kids to schools with no Black children.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Financial contributions can substitute for the more difficult work of examining and changing personal choices.

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“Where Are You with Reparations — the philosophical and economic case?”

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