The country?s discriminatory housing policies are intertwined with virtually every domestic issue central to the presidential race. | Shutterstock

In this country, race still influences where and how you live. The Democratic primary lost the voices that can best explain why At last night?s Democratic presidential campaign debate, the final one before the Iowa caucuses, something was notably different from every previous 2020 election debate: All the candidates onstage were white.
When the race began, it had the most diverse candidate pool?ever. But within the last month and a half, most of the nonwhite candidates have suspended their campaigns: Sen. Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, on December 3; former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, the son of a Chicana activist and grandson of a Mexican immigrant, on January 2, and Sen. Cory Booker, the son of civil rights activists and one of only 10 African-American U.S. senators ever elected, on January 13. Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur and the son of Taiwanese immigrants, and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the American Samoa?born congresswoman, are the only nonwhite candidates still in the race for the Democratic nomination. Neither qualified for last night?s debate.
With Booker, Castro, and Harris leaving the campaign trail, the race for the Democratic nomination loses the valuable lived experiences of people of color in America, experiences that are essential for understanding ...