I am studying for the HUD exam and currently examining the Fair Housing section, how certain points in history are describes gaslight and down-play the racist undertones of these Laws, Acts, and cases.

For example, on page 7 of Module 3.1. It states in The Civil Rights Act of 1866 at the bottom of the ox. "For the first time, all citizens held the same rights to use, purchase, lease, and transfer real estate property" when the sentence just before that states that all persons born in the US except American Indians were declared citizens. So that statement in contradictory and further supports a narrative that Native Americans were not citizens.

Also, in Plessy v Ferguson, the last sentence "Consequently, access to housing was not entirely fair....". It was NOT fair, period!!

Especially in this movement of change in history, I urge HUD to look at the materials that are being distributed in order to not further a narrative of oppression. I know these are work and may be small in the big picture of things, but they have the ability to conscious or subconsciously impact the people who are reading these study guides.

Thank you,
Logan