The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Potential Misappropriation of Power in the Implementation of Community Development Block Grants

Phyliss V. Craig-Taylor, Charlotte School of Law

Abstract

In a compelling and disturbing manner, the approach to redevelopment in post-Katrina Mississippi demonstrates the extent to which systems of discrimination still endure, despite laws which prohibit direct discrimination. This erosion of wealth emasculates and defeats the promise envisioned in the adoption of anti-discrimination laws in this country. They, instead, highlight a growing need for public policy debates and political discourse over the continued erosion of citizenship and the expanding absence of government protection for those without wealth and a disproportionate number of people of color.