Through reading chapters 7 and 8, I gained a better understanding of how segregation started and how it is still dominant in the US specifically in Virginia. Even after the revolution of the black population of Richmond, many of the policies that were taken were based on discrimination to support the economic system of exploitation. Even if the policies that were taken were considered to liberate people context is really important to be given and reality is really different than theory. Examples of this are how black kids would have access to education, theoretically, but funding that was given to an average white kid was four times more in comparison to the funding for a black kid. Moreover, black people would have access to work and to land, but since white people were always more privileged, they would be the ones that would be the owners of the land and of the companies, and therefore they would always favor, other white people. When their land, their home, their family, their education, their freedom, and their identities in general are challenged, and almost taken, there is no sense of speaking about decolonization and resegregation. Even connecting it to the current status of the US and specifically Virginia, history affects majorly the path society takes and even though constitutionally black people may have the same rights it can be even measured or just seen by any citizen that forms of segregation are still dominant in Richmond.