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Puzzle Paragraph Time

After discussing the eminent domain and the racial issues such as housing discrimination in A Raisin In the Sun, I think that they are actually connected to each other. When there is segregated housing in a society, everyone is split off by racial, ethnic or class. Because of this separation, one community is visibly poorer or richer than the others. Today we can see this type of wealth inequality in many states such as the one between Clawson and Troy school district. Once upon a time , both districts had somewhat equal educational rankings and similar grades, however with the influx of new racial groups and different people from different social classes -- which began after the global expansion of the auto industries in Michigan -- the two districts started to become more and more different. As newcomers move into an area, others with similar races, classes or ethnicities tend to also move there with them. This caused more and more people to move into Troy and greatly increased the

What can the government do?

During the discussion of A Raisin In the Sun, the issue of housing discrimination was brought up numerous times as a major cause of a segregated society. We also connect this issue in the book to the real-life where the same issue is taking place, such as in the articles where the author called Michigan one of the most segregated states. I was actually pretty surprised to find out that racial discrimination of this scale still exists today. One question that I had was why aren't there any regulations that restrict these types of discrimination; however, now I realize that the issue will not be easily resolved. First, the biggest factor of this issue is the presence of self-discrimination which I blogged about last week. Self-discrimination leads to the prevention of integration of different ethnicities or races. In the case of Housing discrimination, the buyers of the house are not restricted from buying housing in areas with different races or ethnic groups, they simply chose no