resources. when you talk about creativity, i think about the fact that dr. martin luther king jr. did take up housing segregation in particular in chicago, in northern cities. it was part of how he moved a southern civil rights movement into a kind of broader national movement. and yet it has remained so sticky. it has proved more difficult even than as difficult and as much blood as was shed in the context of getting the vote and bringing down those colored and white signs, man, housing has been tough. what kinds of creative new tools start to expand the opportunities for equal housing? one of the big missions at hud, because we have a fair housing office that is very robust, is to ensure that there s a level playing field. for instance we know today that african-americans and hispanics are shown 10% fewer rental properties when they go out there into the market and so we have testers that go out. we work with nonprofits that try and uncover discrimination where
rosa parks that brought dr. king to the floor as a civil rights leader. yeah, i think it s important to recognize in the world that was defined by colonialism, black and brown people didn t have to read each other s works to come to a common understanding that humanity was being oppressed. it took certain moments, con tect individuals to muster the courage to learn from around the world and test the ideas. so, before king, james farmer had study s gandhi s efforts and were actually king s tutors on this issue. they started the efforts through core in the north as early freedom fighters testing desegregation or really expanding integration outside the south before it became known as the southern civil rights movement. it demonstrates how long the effort for anticolonialism had