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  Dispatches of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. Because silence is not an option. We may read and write alone, but we drive change together. Plundering Black America An excerpt from an important new book chronicling the history of the racial wealth gap Steven Beschloss Mar 31 Fighting for equality in 1963 in the March on Washington. (Photo by Leffler/Library of Congress via Getty Images) We’ve been confronted in recent years  with a ridiculous amount of lies that there is no such thing as structural or systemic racism in America. This fallacious flood of misinformation has helped fuel the hostile attacks on the study of racial history and the virulent rejection of diversity, equity and inclusion by the white nationalist Trump regime. My friend and former colleague Calvin Schermerhorn, a historian of slavery in the United States, addresses the factual reality in his new book,  The Plunder of Black America : How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made...