Following the rules does not protect black homeowners from losing everything

Evidence

Christine Frazer cried softly. She had been through hell and back and the wounds had not healed. Chris had worked hard all her life. She and her late husband had dreamed big dreams for themselves and their family. They had played by the rules. But when Chris lost her home to foreclosure in 2012 everything changed. Now, at the age of sixty-five, she was out of work and forced to live in a senior facility, her cherished home gone, her health deteriorating, and her dreams shattered. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 28

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the ‘played by the rules’ theme that Glaude will later connect to black electoral loyalty; anchors the reader’s own framing of the value gap. — connects to: Obama’s election coincided with black families facing foreclosure, not racial progress.; Black homeownership is still worth pursuing despite its rigged structure — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 1304