Well said! Living in Detroit for years, I watched my share of food deserts and predatory business practices ravage Black communities. I watched state (White) politicians deliberately starve Detroit of equitable funding for infrastructure and basic education needs like safe, maintained schools. I watched my Black school-teacher friends buy basic supplies out of their own pockets, buy mittens for themselves and their students — who were freezing in unheated classrooms.

I watched all of this, knowing I could drive just a mile to the north, outside Detroit city limits, and find people living in relative luxury with high performing, heated, well-supplied schools.

I listened to White politicians and White community leaders blame poor Black people for the destruction that white flight caused.

I listened to self righteous, racist arguments that boiled down to, We don't want to help our Black neighbors because they are Other, and they are inferior to us.

We will never as a nation spend the treasure we must spent to end racist inequity – not until we do something about the racist attitudes themselves.