Playing by the rules offers black families no protection 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
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: The ‘played by the rules and still lost everything’ frame pulls the same thread as the value-gap thesis to come — the meritocratic bargain being void, matching the reader’s goal of seeing how black loyalty to the system is a trap.