Spartanmack
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it wasn't a law, true, it was the written policy of the federal agency that was created by law to oversee mortgages.
And let's not forget, the practice was identified, investigated and outlawed and since then there has been only one significant case of racial discrimination by a major mortgage lender who again, was forced to pay a hefty fine and end those practices. I know you like to think all these bankers and politicians (the old white males anyway) were all hanging out smoking cigars and joking about how BofA got caught but tomorrow it's back to business as usual making sure black people can't get mortgages. They care so much more about keeping black people down than they do about making money off of them. It's insane that you think it's the other side that is ignorant.
After the passage of the 13th & 14th Amendments, no place in the US could any longer write openly racist laws and expect them to be upheld as constitutional, so they got creative and came up with "separate but equal" segregation, which was shown to be in practice anything but equal. For decades courts have understood that racism still exists, but can't overtly declare itself, and so have allowed arguments about racist intent and effect and declared laws to be unconstitutional based on those alone, so to simply claim ignorance of all this and declare there's no institutional racism anymore is really something. Especially acknowledging there are racist people, but somehow none of them are ever in power, or if in power allow their racist feelings to affect policy or decision making... wow.
this is all just a bunch of smoke and mirrors bullshit - it's the same garbage pushed by proponents of Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project and the Ibram X Kendi Anti-Racist garbage. Racism exists institutionally, we can't prove it and we can't identify any specific laws that are racist. But we know it does because inequality exists. Since we can't identify any laws, obviously it's now a conspiracy maintained by those in power to apply the laws unequally based on race. Therefore you have to tear it all down and rebuild it with an eye toward racially equal outcomes. And if you disagree, it's simply because you're racist so your opinions don't matter. What's amazing is you have no idea who incredibly stupid that sounds and is.
Also, no one is claiming ignorance of any of this. I would say I have no idea where you got that from if you didn't have a history of setting up straw man arguments to impugn the opposition and falsely claim the moral high ground. I'm not the least bit ignorant of your argument and I've addressed it head on. It's been thoroughly and completely debunked, which I assume is why you keep claiming anyone who disagrees with you denies or is ignorant of history. None of that changes the fact the institutional racism isn't the problem you think it is in America today. It's not what's keeping urban communities from advancing.
and you say it wasn't racist, or a law but was "outlawed"? why? for being... what?
and The other people quoted in the article have their names mentioned, as well as the organizations they work for.
jesus christ man, get an editor. you can't even read and write.
This is funny coming from you, less than a page after post #132 where I posted in reference to redlining "no one is saying it wasn't racist." Seriously, how stupid are you? Or are you just putting words in my mouth again so you can argue against things I've never said to make yourself feel less dumb.
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