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quote Originally posted by olejoedad: Oh, yeah, the lengthy and detailed response listing the myriad recent policies holding go time back? Quite the list wasn't it? Chock full of detail, it was. Perhaps you could flesh the list out with some cut and paste from your favorite propaganda outlet.

The history of redlining is long and extensive. "Redlining" would have been the first word to come to my mind, in the same context as when theBDub messaged it here.

I do not harbor any thoughts of trying to become a political or Social Justice activist. "A man's got to know his limitations." But if I were going to delve deeper into this topic, here are two of the first places I would look to, to become better informed and to look for ideas and inspiration; to better understand all the "buzz" about Social Justice on mainstream media and also the Republican establishment and Republican populist-leaning media venues.

"The Color of Money--Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap"
Mehrsa Baradaran; Belknap Press; 2019.

quote When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. Studying these institutions over time, Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the myth that black communities could ever accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. Instead, housing segregation, racism, and Jim Crow credit policies created an inescapable, but hard to detect, economic trap for black communities and their banks. The catch-22 of black banking is that the very institutions needed to help communities escape the deep poverty caused by discrimination and segregation inevitably became victims of that same poverty. Not only could black banks not “control the black dollar” due to the dynamics of bank depositing and lending but they drained black capital into white banks, leaving the black economy with the scraps. Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap. These initiatives have functioned as a potent political decoy to avoid more fundamental reforms and racial redress. Examining the fruits of past policies and the operation of banking in a segregated economy, she makes clear that only bolder, more realistic views of banking’s relation to black communities will end the cycle of poverty and promote black wealth.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu...p?isbn=9780674237476

"A Homestead Act for the 21st Century"
Mehrsa Baradaran for The Great Democracy Initiative; May 2019.

quote The goal of the 21st century Homestead Act is to counteract the longstanding legacy of racially discriminatory housing policies by revitalizing distressed communities through public investment. The basic structure of the program is a wholesale transfer of land to residents who meet certain criteria. Accompanied by a holistic plan at the city level to revitalize the community through public investments in infrastructure and jobs, this proposal would benefit people who live in select small and medium-sized cities that are experiencing high vacancies.

https://greatdemocracyiniti...stead-Act-050719.pdf

I love it that the Pennock's forum's "dependables" are still cackling about "HRC" like a driver that's fixated on his rearview mirror as he speeds into a concrete barrier that's just in front of him. If all the cackling from this group of forum members during the last umpteen years and especially the last five years had any quantum of truth in it, I wouldn't be here to remind people that Trump is "one and done." Trump is "one and done" and Biden is about to unpack his robinette as he begins his residence in the world's most famous long term care facility on Pennsylvania Avenue.


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