That piece is followed by this photograph
by Michael David Murphy.
I wanted the idea of segregation to begin the book
because the ways in which we maintain segregation
in our lives, whether it's who we socialize with, where we sit
in the lunchroom, who we think we can marry, who we think
deserves to enter our house for dinner, all of those ways,
where we live.
So it seemed to me that one of the ways race
lives in us is in all of those choices.
And all of those choices become a kind of Jim Crow choice.
And when I saw this photograph by Michael in his portfolio,
I said, oh, did you Photoshop this?
And he said, no, you can go there.
You can go there you can buy a house on that street.
And so I said to him, did you ask them
why the street is called Jim Crow?
And he said, yes, you do.
And they told him that the street
was named after James Crow.
And so I said to him, well, did you
ask them why they didn't call it James Crow?
And he said, yes, he did.
And they said, we call him Jim.
So therefore, clearly--
[LAUGHTER]
But apparently, there are many Jim Crow roads
all over the country, if you look for them.
This one is in Flowery Branch, Georgia.
And it happens to be in the South,
but we have a history of redlining
residential segregation, all kinds of things.
So I think one of the ways we like to think about racism
is that it belongs to the South.
The second time the KKK went into formation after the Civil
War was in 1914.
And it was against immigration of whites to this country.
And that moment saw the KKK rise up in the Midwest
and in the West.
So we should give up the myth of the South being the only place.