The Color of Law

And the smartphone now was the way I think the enemy just put the icing on the cake of all of those changes through social media.

And we know that Facebook and Instagram just settled a lawsuit for, I think, $18 billion or something, billions of dollars with several states because of what they did specifically and especially to young women because of that.

And the other thing I'll throw in there real quick is that with these devices we've also seen a new epidemic of pornographic use that is also significantly damaging the well-being of many young people.

Dr. Schwab.

Yes.

I mean, at the moment, I'm busy reading an incredible book called The Color of Law, written by Richard Rothstein.

I was on tour in the US speaking recently and I picked up this book.

It's just the most fascinating read where you realize that some of the struggles we have in the world around how bias finds its way into law and then affects people's lives is actually not a uniquely South African thing.

That's why you got to read this book.

Um, Read this book, Tenacity, called The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein about how redlining neighborhoods, black neighborhoods, it's really good, thorough.

So, you know, the Latino community, I think they go against the black community because there's no power there.

They won't go to the White House where the whites are actually shitting on them.

And they would also generate an area description, and that red line basically meant that I, as a bank, like say Wells Fargo, would never, ever give a mortgage to anyone who was applying with an address in that red line.

I, as a realtor, and in fact, you all should really check out The Color of Law by Richard Loewenstein, I think is his last name.

Amazing book that describes this in detail.

He talks about the fact that if you were a real estate agent, even if you're not working at a bank, you're a real estate agent, if you showed a Black person a house, and that Black person obviously has come a redlined neighborhood because all Black neighborhoods were redlined, you c- if you showed them a property because you wanted to be as an individual, maybe you were a righteous whiteess, you would lose your membership in the real estate, uh, coalitions and trade associations.