… In 2019, during sworn testimony before Congress, Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen claimed that his boss had characterized Black Chicago with disdain and blame: "While we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago," Trump "commented that only Black people could live that way." In 2018, the American Values Survey found that 45 percent of white Americans believed that socioeconomic disparities are really a matter of not trying hard enough — and that if Black people put in more effort, they could be just as well off as white people.
What really happened was more sinister. On the South Side of Chicago, a pattern of intentional, government-sanctioned policies systematically extracted the wealth from Black neighborhoods, bringing an erosion of health for generations of people, leaving them to live sick and die young…
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