and i can ask sheryll cashin about what is on your mind but for someone to turn to sheryll cashin, the question what to do about all of this. there's a chapter title abolition and care i wonder if you could share what is in the chapter and what is your vision of what needs to be done to dismantle and have "residential caste system". >> i want to start off that my starting point was, not the first person to talk about this about abolition in creating abolition democracy so much and so my vision really came from then is the language they use, you use the word abolition, you're talking about transformation in another talking about modest reform but the beauty of understanding "residential caste system", once you understanding the processes in a way forward is, your reversing - so the first thing that i say is that we need to change the relationship with the state from punitive to the caring and change the lands in which we see them. dare i say love but once you see descendents three dimensional human beings who are capable of agency and potential assets, it frees you up to focus on and id

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sheryll cashin. you have five minutes. >> thank you very much, i want to begin by associating myself with the comments of the chairwoman, and my comments are in that spirit. i've spent nearly three decades grappling with u.s. segregation, and how it produces racial inequality. my most recent book, "white save black hood," segregation and the age of inequality reflects this decades of examinations. it argues that we have a system of residential caste in which government overinvests and excludes in affluent white spaces and disinvests and contains, and frankly preys on people in high poverty black neighborhoods. these are the extremes of american residential caste but everyone who can not afford to buy their way into high opportunity neighborhoods are harmed by the system. the poor especially are systematically excluded for opportunities for social mobility, no matter how hard they work to escape. exclusionary zoning was first sanctioned by the u.s. supreme court in 1986 in which it endorsed the idea t