Overview

Knowing the cost of products is important. If you don't know how much your item costs, whatever it may be, you are likely to be overcharged or under-protected. Racial equality is very much like any product. Generally, you get what you pay for--assuming you are buying well-made products from reputable and professional sources. The more you pay, the more you get; the less you pay, the less you get. But everyone knows there are often wild exceptions to the general rule of getting what you pay for. Racial equality is no exception. Some low-cost racial equality programs provide tremendous bang for the buck. K-12 school integration, affirmative action in higher education, funding for anti-discrimination enforcement, and political equality in voting are just a few examples. However, by refusing to calculate the costs involved and choosing to pay little or nothing for racial equality, the nation is defaulting to the highest cost options. This is like trying to save money on transportation by not changing the oil in your car. Racial equality cost decisions are particularly problematic as the nation moves to being majority-minority by mid-century. Not knowing the costs for racial equality threatens American democracy.

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""Let's do the math. What has been the cost of historical discrimination against black Americans, and what would be the cost of atonement? What are the odds of enacting policies whose economic scope is commensurate with the size of the problem, given the stark opposition by whites to economically minor policies that have been enacted in the past? The math is sobering, but the analysis is trenchant."" --Frank R. Baumgartner, Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science, UNC-Chapel Hill ""Major Coleman offers a passionate, perceptive, and persuasive case that America is paying massive and unnecessary financial, cultural, moral, spiritual, and emotional costs for failing to end racism for good and to grant racial equality to all. Using his impressive skills as a legal scholar, social scientist, and man of faith, Coleman documents in detail how blatantly unjust, hopelessly inefficient, and spiritually bankrupt it is for us not live up to our founding ideas of liberty, justice, equality for all."" --John Witte Jr., director, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University

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Major G. Coleman is a law professor and a political economist at St. Thomas University School of Law in Florida. He received his BA and JD from the University of Maryland, AM and PhD from the University of Chicago, and LLM and SJD from the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University School of Law. He is the 2024 recipient of the Gertie and John Witte Prize in Law and Christianity.

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