The Segregation Myth: Richard Rothstein Debunks an American Lie | NowThis
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- ‘The racial segregation in every metropolitan area in this country was created by racially explicit government policy, designed to create racial boundaries.’ - Segregation expert Richard Rothstein has spent his life debunking the American myth that white and Black people live separately by choice
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In US news and current events today, Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law author, continues his lifelong mission to debunk the myth of de facto segregation and explain how modern day segregation is enforced by US law and policy. Insidious tactics like redlining have contributed to modern day segregation, and it leads to modern school segregation, modern housing segregation and housing discrimination, and so much more. De jure discrimination didn't end with the passage of the Civil Rights Act, it simply became more insidious and baked into the housing, lending and education systems that have prevented Black Americans from earning and keeping wealth. Modern segregation is no less immoral and unjust than explicit segregation, and the entire system needs an overhaul if we are ever to reach true equality and assert that Black lives matter.
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Black people already knew this.....we spoke on it but it got dismissed as "playing the race card"....
Konami Codex exactly it’s like white people are pulling a Columbus, “discovering” systemic racism and acting like this is all new information.
Exactly! Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance!
I hate it when people say "stop the race card".
@@yurichtube1162 because some people actually use the race card
@@jesusramos3784 no, they don't. When a minority does talk about race issues, heed them. They know what they are saying. People who talk about the race card are mostly white supermacists. Don't be like them
I am sending this to everyone who has told me there is no such thing as systemic racism and that no one is trying to keep Black people down and deny them wealth.
No one actually believes that. You sending them this will not make them believe a thing they already know...
@@kernalbert4939 Really? You've never had a conversation with someone that went "as a white person, I've never been handed something"? I wish I could say the same because it's exhausting, especially when it's a conversation with someone face to face you used to consider a friend.
Please do, some people are only ignorant. ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Kern Albert dude are you serious? Or you being sarcastic?
but arent blacks part of this problem
Combine that with the fact that schools get funded based on the housing prices in the neighborhood and you've got a system that effectively disadvantages generation after generation
Soy eating cry baby. Boo hoo. Can’t handle the real world.
Christopher Columbus It’s a creation of hard working people living around their own kind. And don’t waste my time telling me someone who shows up to mindless jobs as “hard workers”
@Christopher Columbus those are not mutually exclusive
@@itsokaytobeclownpilled5937 if someone accidentally pours your tripple shot soy latte on you please forgive them- it's just a mindless job after all and they only work sixty or more hours a week only to get half of the person that their currently servings pay
I've seen the difference of teachings between a poor neighborhood and a richer one. The teachers ethier care or don't-and it's a HUGE difference that you can easily see depending on the neighborhood.
Kids get disadvantages due to a capitalistic society that actually believes that it's somehow okay to let someone choose between life long debt or dying from a curable disease.
So ya. Your "hard work theory's" don't always work. To be successful you need a environment to thrive in, some can make it out of that environment- some unfortunately become a victim to it and end up serving snobs like you.
Ms. Zebra You’re lazy and broke. Get off the Internet and tell your case worker to stop your welfare payments because capitalism is paying for your free ride and you don’t want to be involved with evil capitalism.
When we first came to the US we went to search for a future apartment. The woman was very nice while showing it to us and then the bell rang. It was a black couple who also wanted to look at it. The woman dismissed them saying we had already taken it. When the couple left, my dad explained that we had not made a decision yet, and she replied: I know, I told them that because they’re black. We left and never returned there. But that was our first encounter with racism in this country and I haven’t forgotten that to this day.
Wow. Truly disgusting! I really cant understand racism
@@laurelkennedy3344
A non-racist trying to understand how someone can be racist, can be like an atheist trying to understand why people actually believe in god(s.) It's unfortunate that many people don't care to understand the "why," or that they at least put more focus on the "what," since knowing why people do things or understanding why they are the way they are, leads to more effective means to actually changing things. Right now, we largely resort to interventionism and knee-jerk reactions when we see something racist take place, instead of trying to figure out why it happened.
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Personally, I think a big part of our lack of interest in looking for/addressing the root cause of issues, is because we don't want to have to deal with what info we might find, because the reality is that it isn't the case of just "good" and "bad" people - it's culture and environment, and it becomes far more difficult to deal with the fact that "people are merely the symptoms. Society is the disease," than it is to just point fingers and direct blame and outrage towards individuals.
We live in a society
He said that to you because he made the false assumption this type of behavior was okay with you...You have shown him you are better human beings then he's obviously used to associating with.
What year was this?
“You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.”
- Abraham Lincoln
But also we shouldn't legislate morality
@@msgirl01 LOL. All laws legislate morality.
This is interesting.
Lmao Abraham Lincoln was no saint. But yeah laws aren’t God’s rules. They’re the rules of people in power. They’re choices.
Yeah I’ve always said that the laws of men aren’t the laws of god. The laws of god all reflect on morality while the laws of men are created by which one seems to work best for humanity in their eyes, moral or not.
As a black person...this is it!! Ground zero of the racism problem is housing, native Americans need to be spoken of as well.
These laws stopping black people from buying property is gone so what more do you want? I’m interested in knowing and informing myself
They got housing from the federal government it's called reservations that are worth millions and billions; I know because I use to work for the Seminole Tribe of Florida
@@israelhernandez4425 You DO realize people got generationally stuck in those public housing right? Yes, the laws might not be enforced but the results of when they were enforced still exists today.
When you ask asinine questions like "what more do you want" it minimizes the pain, suffering and generational wealth gap caused by those unjust laws. Get over yourself.
so you watch one video on youtube by one white man and you think you know everything lol
@@SoupBone-bp1qk thats the dumbest thing i have ever heard, people come here from all over the world with NOTHING and still are better off than african americans. im not saying this didnt play a part amd its terrible that it was going but it doesnt anymore keep playing victim.
This didn’t happen by accident. It’s deliberate redlining
Bennett McCoy what is a white neighborhood
Redlining was based on already areas of ethnic/race maps were created by the FHA to help banks avoid loans in areas where houses values were in decline as assistance to banks
@@Dog.soldier1950 no. It was designed to ensure that Black people would be poor forever
I can clearly remember hearing as a child in the 60s, "I don't have anything against the Negros, but if we start letting them move in, property values are going to go down to nothing! And just think about what will happen to the school system!" I heard it more than once, but in particular I have a dark memory of some lady with a very sweet voice, and my parents and all the adults agreeing with her.
That’s a common statement still made to this day. It’s why gentrification and white flight are happening
There was a study in Chicago where they offered to pay the white families who stayed in a neighborhood that was slowly getting more diverse. They said If your house loses value, we will pay the difference when you sell. Home values didn’t go down. I wish I could remember the name of the professor who talked about this project on the On Being radio show.
@@2gunzfilms425 I grew up about a block from a very large empty tract of land, maybe a mile by half a mile. Across the street was a gas station. In the 69's, every time the opportunity came up while gassing his car, my Dad would say, "I wonder when that will get built up." Often 9ther adults would comment about not wanting "the wrong kind" to move there. My Dad would smile and say, "If somebody wants to buy a $40,000 house there, I don't care if he has leather wings and spots."
"If black people move here, property values would decrease because we'd have to move!"
But it is true!!
"It is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man to pull himself up by his own bootstraps" - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Weed need a guaranteed minimum income, or Ubi.
Especially when you have no strings in your boots in the first place.
Excellent! Thank you.
or when its illegal to be sold boots
@@freakwants2play458 Our government has a nation wide federal minimum wage income already established. Only requirement is one needs to gain employment in order to receive at least that amount of income. That's called Capitalism, not socialism!
As someone who isn't American, this is one of the first things you notice when visiting America, I never understood why - this is absolutely real.
That’s so true, I remember when I went on holiday there with my family, we were trying to get to a certain destination, but we accidentally picked the long route on the gps, as we were going, we went through affluent mainly white residentials, nice touristy places, and later on when through another neighbourhood, except houses were barely keeping together, windows smashed and covered, and just completely contrasted what we had seen before, one thing that shocked me was that there was a sign saying “Do not stand here” or something similar to that, I never saw a sign like this anywhere else. And what did I see, black people, black kids, adults, not many though. That’s when I realised how big of a problem this is in America. I already knew there was a problem-but seeing it for myself was another thing completely. I don’t understand how some Americans still refuse to believe that it is happening.
Its the american way. If someone deems your neighborhood not worthy of an investment or thinks white couples wont move there, they wont bother putting their money there.
As someone who isn’t American, you shouldn’t be commenting on our social issues. Your opinions are not welcome. We will solve our issues alone.
@@hellboy6507 😂😂😂 ok Pladimir 😉
Americans notice this too but we're taught to think poverty is a result of people's worth/grit and there's nothing structural about it. We're not taught anything else unless we go to higher ed but that's being made very inaccessable too
His book is excellent " The Color of Law". He is pointing out institutionalized programs designed with the intention of specific outcomes, which still work today.
Will you condemn the zionists led by the Rothschild's?? Likely not
@@andyfumo8931 That depends... will YOU condemn the lizardmen that came to earth from their hollowed-out moon base in order to infiltrate our sacred society? I think not... tinfoil hats for all I say! :P
@@noseenogo that escaled quickly
@John Connor I am commenting on a Rothschild video 🤦 figure it out
I bet Joe Biden never read it. Not enough pictures of girls in it.
This is the most concise, thorough explanation on how this country got to its current state that I've ever seen.
With all this evidence, HOW do we still have people in this country not understand why we say its hard to be black?
They see it but won’t acknowledge it, as they benefit greatly from it 😑
They don’t want to believe it. They think black should be “grateful” slavery is over. Like they literally think not being slaves is the only freedom black people need
Whenever you confront someone with this cold truth they often go into rant that reminds me of those that children give when they are corner, it helps deal with guilt. Many don't know and the ones that do know don't want to talk about it because it makes them look bad like the whole pull yourself up from your boot straps thing was a lie they told themselves to justify privilege by birth right.
Why accept or recognize the truth when it's to the benefit of that/who which you loathe.
They see their lives as hard as well. They see not the invisible lines of segregation.
When I was a kid, my father wanted to buy a new house. There were certain houses that he wanted in a certain neighborhood and the realtors worked hard to persuade him not to live in that certain area. They made up all kinds of lies like, you couldn’t be approved for the loan and tried to point him in the direction of the “Black side of town”. But my father persisted. He found a new realtor who was a German woman. (I still remember her accent) She just wanted to make a sell, so she gave in and my father finally got what he wanted. THIS is how systematic racism works.
Go Dad!!! The stories of subverting the system are really interesting to me!
I’ve read of affluent majority black suburbs in the Chicagoland area where median home income is $100k+.
The homes are 30% cheaper than going rates because of the stigma of it being a “black neighborhood”.
And they’ve had trouble attracting companies like Panera Bread (iirc) because of the same stigma.
The idea that black people are riskier lenders (that’s why FHA enforced racial covenants) is ridiculous as well. Black families end up paying 2x as much as white families for the same homes bc of racist banks.
If you’re worried about being race eliminated, it’s possible to bid on a house in an online auction
Elena Michaels But this still doesn’t erase the fact that systematic racism exist.
thats not systemic racism. Systemic means its enforced by the government. If individual people are like that its not systemic.
I'm curious. What year was it when your dad bought his house? Was it in a white or mixed neighborhood?
Housing and lack-there-of is the foundation to 90% of Americans wealth. Income is great but wealth must be accumulated in order to better the next generation.
So why are black Americans complaint again? Been here for hundreds of years and arguably benefited from slavery just as much as any white American has. I mean, there are immigrants coming here and within 1 or 2 generations becoming some of the wealthier people in the country. There are black Americans in EVERY job, title, role and field in America. Stop being a victim
@@Iburn247 I can help answer this. My wife and I are immigrants that came less than 20 years ago. She holds a job at a respectable tech company with a master's degree and I am close to completing a degree in dentistry. These are both well-paying jobs. However, we are far from wealthy and like someone mentioned, wealth must be accumulated in order to benefit the next generation. We have a huge amount of debt as most students who graduate. We may not be able to afford the things that we hear with the majority of our co-workers or classmates (who happen to be white) like having a cabin to spend the weekend, a boat to invite friends over or heck, even a house is not feasible with the prices out there. But you know what? We owe the opportunities we have to the activists who fought for the rights we have today. My wife wouldn't have her job if it wasn't for the women's suffrage movement. I wouldn't be able to attend school if the desegregation movement didn't happen. Sure, we are in huge debt but we are also deeply indebted for the people that fought for the rights my wife and I enjoy these days. Don't get the wrong idea, things aren't as rosy as they seem. There is still plenty of work to be done and people who help dissiminate the message are contributing to the improvement of the next generations. What helped us understand the place where we sit today is learning about history. For it is in learning and the continued strive for it that we can fight the enemies that continue to impose roadblocks. These enemies are ignorance, bigotry and narrow - mindedness. I encourage you my friend to learn and to educate yourself a little bit more on the matter. There are nice documentaries out there about the prison system in the U.S. (13th), about the LA riots of 92 (Burn Motherf****, Burn) and many others.
Cheers
Adam Mcgrath did i just read you say BENEFITTED from slavery?? centuries of being treated as sub-human, raped, beaten and exploited for money like they were animals?? when slavery ended african americans were given NO help or compensation to get by. they had to start from the very bottom, not being able to go to university or vote, not being let into buying good housing, refused loans.. this sets them back so far compared to white americans who had every opportunity. there is literally no way that african americans have benefitted from slavery as much as white americans have. go educate yourself, you have access to the internet and many documentaries on this can tell you more.
Psychology tells us that when presented with facts, most humans will hold onto their opinions even harder. He will always believe that we all benefited from slavery
@@luiscordoba3247 Very nicely stated. Looking at history is indeed a major help.
Everyday when I watch another video like this, I am reminded of just how ignorant I am.
Many of us white people are experiencing this and it's a great thing. It makes me so angry to know that the true history of our country has been buried or glossed over in order to keep us all ignorant of the truth.
@@kristinaperkins9836 Yes, it's an agenda. If you don't know the history about Bacon's Rebellion please look into it. Race was literally invented as a way to divide people after blacks and whites revolted.
I read his book “Color of Law” for one of my history classes, and I was shocked to find how different levels of government did everything in their power to keep African Americans segregated in regards to housing. They did this through redlining districts, zoning ordinances. Developers who tried to build housing projects solely for African Americans were met with opposition every step of the way, and most developers would give up with the projects. It’s truly a book I recommend everyone should read.
They are still doing it the wording change that is it but the plan remains the same.
What does he say we should do about it?
@@dougie0109 in the US there's nothing we can do.
Who are the people responsible fpr such policies, and what is their reasoning? How much of it is deliberately racially based, and how much is just class based. How do they get away with racially based policy? Is it present in every city? Which are the worst?
I'll check it out. This video gave me way more questions than answers.
I learned this in college 10 years ago as “redlining”.
Redlining is just one set of policies amongst many--- the FHA, the Veteran's Bill, and the other things the author spoke of in the video, including redlining. There was a whole range of deliberate government policies that benefited white people and caused harm to Black people.
Yep. Same same.
@osp80 It still happens to this day. Here in Sacramento there was a couple who were given a contract to sign from their home owners association stating that no blacks would be allowed in the neighborhood. This was just a few years ago. It had been policy since the 1960s and had never been changed.
Victoria Baker The problem is the suggestion that redlining proves that the government intentionally oppressed black Americans. Everything else he said is, I believe, true, but his conclusion does not logically follow from his arguments. People need to realize that - to see the distinction between what is factual information and what is conspiracy. The reason it’s so important for us to have high standards in that regard is because illogical arguments like this cause people who recognize this fallacious reasoning to mistakenly thing that there is no logical argument capable of supporting this conclusion. I’m not a liberal, but I share a lot of the fundamental liberal beliefs, and I believe that upward mobility, particularly for black Americans at or below the poverty line, is essential for the economic growth and welfare of the nation - regardless of how people feel about race and morality. The logic behind the economic benefits of black upward mobility is, I think, practically irrefutable. You can make a very powerful argument in favor of this stance by just using the core mechanics of economics. People like this guy make this stance seem like it’s just more “liberal nonsense” in the eyes of half of the United States. Presenting himself as an authoritative source, and then proceeding to “prove” his stance by using a non-sequitur, makes him not only appear manipulative - like he’s trying to brainwash people - but it makes people believe that if there WAS proof, this guy should know all about it, therefore the stance can’t be validated. I’m not saying that’s a logical way of looking at it - but that is how people think. We really need the middle and lower classes to take a stand against this kind of behavior. Wealthy people with expensive educations in politics and law are trained to recognize fallacies, and also, to use them to their advantage. They are taking advantage of people who didn’t receive the same level of education. It really, really bothers me. The issue of black poverty in America today is a very serious subject that is in dire need of immediate attention, and it deserves better than this cleverly-worded, pale approximation of rationality.
@@nickadams2451
Can you cite this?
What's insane is that there's people that deny de jure segregation existed in regards to housing. The neighborhood I live in now did not allow blacks to move in until the late 70's.
How did they do that, just wondering now.
@@johnree6106 The people enforcing the laws do not enforce laws against racism as well as any other law.
I am very proud of my mother who broke the "housing covenant" of our suburb (Elmhurst, Il.) in the mid 60's. She worked at a V.A. hospital and her co-worker lamented that the Realtors were steering her exclusively to a very run down suburb.
At the time, my mother was suffering from kidney disease and had trouble getting around, so she told her friend, to wear her hospital uniform and Mom would take her house hunting. Mom looked pretty bad, but did all the talking, so it was easy for Realtors to be taken in. When Mom's friend found the house she wanted, about 2 blocks from 9ur home. Mom bought it, bringing her nurse along to the bank for closing. The moment the ink was dry, she turned to her "nurse" and said, I'm looking for a quick profit on this house. I understand you're looking. Would this house do for you? You can assume the mortgage from me.". The Realtor said. "You can't do that! This is a covenant town! The banker said, "You can't do that, this is a covenant town!"
My mom smiled gayly as she signed the house over, "O yes I can! My husband is a Chicago newspaperman."
It was her finest hour. 2 years later, I marched for open housing with Martin Luther King.
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That is a magnificent story your dad, being a newspaper man I’m sure he wrote about it. I would love to have a link to read the whole thing.
Yes. Finally someone went out and saw this...only took us 30years
Yeah. Black people have veen saying this for decades.
30?
Lot's have been saying it. He just has the means to have talks on it. Movies have been telling you, and so have musicians, and many other activists, like Bernie, Jessie Jackson (who had the same platform as Bernie in the 80's!).
Well only 30 years for you, if you aren't but 30 years old. But It has been going on since slavery was abolished and they had to fight for where they could live, which was usually the worst part of town.
@@puddincup9879 apparently he is young and hasn't read about it in history class. 🤦🏼
Everyone should read his book "The Color of Law." It is an eye-opener.
Jerry C. The title tells me everything I need to know right there!
One of the most eye opening books I have ever read ✊🏾
ROTHSTEIN. Name tells you all you need to know
@@pistolpete667 Do say what you're implying.
@Anne Liesveld It's about 250 pages and, at times, quite heavy to read.
I remember going to work and serve a community in the south suburbs of Chicago’s, and I just remember it being odd to me that it occured to me “oh, this is where they put them”. I didn’t understand all the history, but I intuitively knew this wasn’t on accident.
I didn’t think it was right, it just was what I was working with.
Growing up I lived in mostly integrated areas for the most part. Then I moved to Kansas for a few years and I experienced segregated neighborhoods for the first time and it felt really uncomfortable and it felt like I was the only one that noticed
Same. I grew up in ny and it was way different than Louisiana where there is a literally border (a long street) separating the white and black neighborhoods and wow it is OBVIOUSLY different. So much poverty on the black side of town.
Everyone acting like black people just came out...
For Real.
Sad but true. I just told that to my HR rep. People acting like systematic racism just started when us black people been telling them about it
Lmaoooo bro you killed it 😂
The 1968 Kerner comissions ideas to lift up the african American people as a result of the 67-68 rebellions around the country were ignored and has led to the present condition they are in. Heck i am surprised that these protests didnt start earlier in the reagan era when he destroyed them.
I'm grateful that something has finally gotten the world to acknowledge the existence of systemic racism in America. It's been a long time coming. It won't mean much if it doesn't lead to reform, gotta keep going.
It is easier to target us if we are separated out. Same concept as native reservations.
Exactly. People talk about the how and not really the why. The why is because slavery still exists and if you can create a permanent underclass to feed the Prison Industrial Complex, then you've solidified two strata of cheap, exploitable labour, to keep capitalism standing.
True!
🤣I CANT BREATH🤣
Yep....
@channel break 😂😂 You are pathetic. Racists and racism are what is wrong with America so I am trying to get you racists to leave.
Home loans, gov subsided housing, redlining,.... Segregation never ended.
I'd like to know how diverse Mr. Rothstines neighborhood is.
true
When i was in college a book was written that tried to relabel "slaves" as " none paid workers"
The author claimed it was because they felt the word "slave" was to negative.
My point of this story is to say that history is written by the people who win. We are now in a position to rewrite history and tell the entire story NOT just the parts that make the winner sound good.
uhhhh..... what? these books and history already exist fam so are you advocating for the educational system to stop pushing a wack curriculum?
Same with my 3rd grade daughter’s social studies book. I had to educate her and her teacher. 🤦🏼♂️
Yeah but now this has not turned into a fair balenced view, but actually the opposite. They tell little children their culture was evil by highlighting mostly the negative aspects of white cultutre, while focusimg on only the positive aspects of other cultures.
You shouldnt be teaching little kids that one group enslaved the other becuase you are training them to feel like victims and self-hate. The ugly parts of history should be 18+.
Its child abuse.
@@nneuhaus84 Having graduated with a degree in American and modern european history I find idea we should hide children from historic realities until they are 18 is rediculous. Children aren't stupid. They can see things around them that don't make sense and want answers. Try explaining to a child why there is BLM protests on TV without mentioning anything you consider to be "unsuitable". Good luck with that. So much of history involves suffering and inequality of some sort. No child will be able to understand the world around them without the "unsuitable" bits.
Giving our kids the edited highlights and only the positive aspects of history that is child abuse. Intentonally keeping children ignorant is child abuse. Slavery happened and unfortunately racism plays a huge role in American history. America makes no sense historically unless you understand that.
@@nneuhaus84 - So you advocate for the usual 'White is Right and Great and Good' hogwash until children are 'old enough'? As Keith Cowie pointed out, children aren't stupid. They have eyes and ears. When their parents say one thing but do another, they perceive the difference. They'll want answers, and look for them. Where do you want them to get those answers? From whackjobs or from those who can help them understand that the world is often messy and unfair?
It's funny how it wasn't a problem for slaves to live next to they master but once they were free they didn't want them to love live next door from them. Smh
That is because you don't begrudge a chair being in your living room... as long as you can use it. As they did not see slaves as persons but as things they had control over, it wasn't a problem (although if I recall correctly 'living next to each other' does not quite fit. Living quartes were clearly designated... which allows you to remove yourself from proximity although you might be sharing walls). Only once they were asked to aknowledge the personhood of someone who they deemed a non-person did it become a problem.
They weren't living next to their enslaved brethen. They were living on top of them, with the ongoing support of armed militias, cruel laws, wicked church, and extensive childhood trauma lamenting in the enslaved but also those doing the enslaving, one would think.
@@G11713 EXACTLY
Exactly, apparently love thy neighbor has exceptions based on BS.
@coffeeinthemorning dude what. I have no idea what your mad at me about. I was being sarcastic
I swear my phone secretly be listening. My brother and I was just talking about this last night. And boom this shows up in my recommendations..
I am first generation, but I am white. Up until this video, I had no idea that the systematic oppression went this deep. I am disgusted. I am mortified. The last few months my perception of this great country has shattered. America used to be a beacon of hope for me. I used to think this was a country of compassionate people run by a honest and fair government. Now I realize we are just another one of the bad guys. We need to rectify this. America needs to change.
Immigrant here, I feel it too
This is the clearest and most accessible discussion of racial segregation and racial differences in generational wealth I've ever seen. Thank you.
It's time for reparations to our black brothers and sisters!
And a nastier one because this freeloader is leeching off of it....lol
Reparations need to be met we work with live a whole entire life and look how we treat it now and I can’t keep on doing it but we won’t stand for it anymore
Reparations will not fix; nor make a difference within a corrupt system. That is essentially “ *paying them off* “ to stfu. The only proper reparations we need is a complete overhaul of the structure of this country to pay us in respect & dignity.
That will *NEVER* happen so the only reparations we need to seek is the blood of our oppressors. Treat them how they’ve continued to treat us presently & in the past.
@@wr842 Don't treat the whites with hate, that's the wrong thing to do. I agree with overhauling the structure. For the blacks that have good opportunities, we will work hard to make a good living so that we can mentor others and bring each other up. And for the ones that have no opportunities, we will fight for you to make sure that everyone has an equal opportunity by supporting educational and social programs and development in poorer areas of the country. Trump will not win, the Democrats will win this next election so there should be plenty of support to develop poor communities. Also, black men need to continue to build strong black families with strong beautiful black women. Not saying you can't marry or date another race, but for me, I'm going after a strong black woman(maybe Afro Latina) to build a strong black family with.
༺ཌW ค Rད༻ so if my great grandfather was a murderer I deserve to die for his actions?
Every time we say it everyone says “ why does everything have to be about race”
Because it’s not race: it’s class. No law has kept Oprah or Will Smith from their mansions. South Park explained this. If you bothered to read Marx, you would know capitalism produces stratification.
SwordsmanRyan you must not have watched the video cause this one is LITERALLY about race.
Christopher Columbus you do realize that even when full blown Jim Crow laws were happening there were still Rich black people like Madame CJ Walker...you’re not making any sense bruh.
@Christopher Columbus please go watch the video again he explicitly says this is about race at least 30 times.
SwordsmanRyan you use 2 successful black celebrities to justify systematic racism. class, all started with race. look at the disparages in class, then take a look at the race within those disparages.
But people get mad when you mention reparations
As a black kid in the 60's I often wondered why people like me lived in the worst neighborhoods and white people lived in predominately nice ones. I tended to think it was naturally the way things were until I got older and realized through videos and books such as this that it was a cruel mechanism to keep African Americans' corralled together like animals.
Yeah, keep thinking that. So when is your next parole meeting? No one cares what color you are. Take care of your own life and stop acting like a victim.
As a white woman who has been privileged to be invited into the homes of many wonderful black families in the public housing projects surrounding cities such as Macon, Augusta, and Savannah GA, this video gives words to the unspoken humility and helplessness I have witnessed so many times... This system was never meant to be fair.
But what breaks my heart is that the men and women in these circumstances were infinitely more kind and respectful to me than the majority of those in any middle-class neighborhood I traversed while I was living and working there. They deserve so many more opportunities, safety nets, resources, and allies than they have been given. I pray to be a part of helping change these wrongs, not one day, but now.
Thank you for sharing your story.
Thank You
Okay, I call BS on this one. I lived in Atlanta and I experienced SO MUCH racism from the black communities there. I lived in Midtown, which has many white and black people, and still was constantly bombarded by rude racist members of those communities. I do not think the color of your skin dictates how you turn out, but the culture you’re raised in does. Discrimination and racism go both ways.
@Gery A Giving their childs position in college ? How are they supposed to give a black student their position when they dont actually own that ? You sound stupid.
@@TheDiscrazy She is speaking about her experience... not yours. How do you figure that you can call BS on someone else's experience?
I wrote a paper about this in my college urban planning class in the mid 80s. The professor gave me a C-, citing that my thesis was a well argued conspiracy theory and that I should have done better research. It was the first time I realized how we turn a blind eye to the uglier parts of our history and actively avoid information that challenges the accepted narrative
Wow so sorry that happened to you. It should have been an A paper
Most people like to live around their own kind period and always have
You mean own color.
I talk about this with so many people. Thank you for expressing it in such an eloquent and data driven way. Much appreciated.
And even after ALL that, certain people will STILL argue against the discrimination of black people 😒
That's very quaintly worded. Maybe you meant "against the *reality* of discrimination" ;)
my mother doesn’t seem to understand that being white helped her escape the poor neighborhoods with the African American’s she grew up with. She calls them monsters & lazy for many reasons, but fails to acknowledge that any of her ability to move out of the ghetto, to buy a house in the suburbs; while may not have entirely impacted the way she was able to have progressed in life, it did change how many other people of color would be able to do the same.
*edit* she grew up in the 50’s btw, and graduated HS in the mid 60’s.
It's not the realization of the discrimination, but determining who and what specific intentions were being at played. It seemed like the bankers and the real estate people were at the core of the problem. Yet, I don't find that surprising at all cause banks fund wars, and we had that 2008 housing bubble burst.
They sho will.😔
@@RyanValizan wait, I've seen many successful black people leave those neighborhoods. And even other blacks refer to them as "getting out." How did they do it, if they're black as well? 🤔🤔
I've been told I don't belong here by cops a few times or had cops called on me for visiting a friend in neighborhoods like that
I cannot imagine how horrible that experience was. I am sorry.
Amazing post, very informative. Thank you!!!
"Sunday morning de facto segregation, the afro American history it's simply amazing, cannot be studied in full, institutional racism forbids it but its well kept in every afro American brain, this video is old news for blacks."
This has been and is my reality. I feel trapped in the rental I’m in because I cannot afford a home. This is all too real.
I bought a house two years ago and I moved to this country 15 years ago with nothing. It took some time to save up and of course it is harder when you don't have a trust fund to help you get started but don't despair. Don't feel trapped, make it a goal and work towards it, you will be able to achieve it if you are consistent! I wish you good luck.
I hope you’re eventually able to get a place that feels like home. I’m sorry for all the BS this country has given black Americans.
Cuomo Primetime I know you can’t tell from my pic but I am a woman.
rvidal0001 my kidneys failed when I was 18 and had been too sick to work or go to school. I did go to collage and got an associates when I had a transplant and was working until my transplant failed. Even after graduation, I still could not afford a home and was routinely rejected for a loan.
@rvidal0001 " I genuinely want to know what it is from your perspective that stopped you from getting a high paying job now." WTF are you so stupid? You literally asked someone why they dont have something that is in scarce supply, especially in the current times, and even more so if you are black.
Why not think before you ask questions?
USA's never-ending racism is disgusting to the point of nausea.
This isn't Systemic Racism that exists today, it was Systemic Racism in the past whose effects still carries on. There is a big difference.
Instead of the racial guilting & self flagellation, what about a fair solution for everyone today, with no new discrimination?
Such as affirdable Govt Housing that is sold & morgaged to everyone without generational wealth BUT who is employed.
Thst way it isn't creating new unfairness based on race - it is just based on a lack of financial assets of parents, or some equal standard.
I think it would be a mistake to how a new "cooler & woke" systemic racism because the same problem just carries on, with ppl treated as per their colour, not as individuals playing by the same rules (as my solution does).
Otherwise new cool & fashionable systemic racism just creates new problems in the future. It doesn't need to be so.
Do you want to be part of solutions or peddle on unloving feeings that are the problem and prevent anything constructive?
Because I'm claiming that your hatred & derision of others is being part of thw problem, even if it is socially considered cool & woke.
@@pebblepod30 there's still systemic racism today especially with these urban renewal projects because it moves out poor people, who are predominantly people of color. The solution would be for better integration of rich and poor, and renewal projects that don't leave out POC, the poor and families; but unfortunately we've had this rotten system for so long it's gotten to a point where poor and homeless are all crazy and not very neighborly
@@pebblepod30 Agree, the claimants on this panel acts as if this were still living in 1955. Things have changed dramatically since the Civil Rights Act of the 60s.
RealityQueen could you win a Monopoly game starting after every property on the board was already owned with hotels?
I love the honest content. We ALL need to see it, learn and grow from it🙌🏾
Thank you for sharing this !! 😊🙏
I think I’m gonna be sick. I can’t believe how much evil they’ve done at the cost of millions of lives. How shortsighted they were back then. We could be living in a more fair society today if they hadn’t been so evil.
It's not short-sightedness, it's cultural racism. Hold overs of imperialism and white supremacy. And I think that's why nothing's been done to rectify - the state wants this status quo to remain. Their approach has shifted from segregation to maintenance of the divide, thus maintaining control over expected trends. Police stay funded to combat crime, black communities remain under the heel of 'acceptable' norms, only the demographics that the state approves of acquire social mobility. All others remain at their stereotypical posts to act as a handy scapegoat or the workforce for big business capitalism...
no they weren't being short-sighted. if you truly think that, then you are missing the point. this was not an accident, it is all by design. the system is working as it was designed to work. the fact that we are discovering the design of the system: that is the flaw. it's all about power and control. how do you keep control? by keeping those below you so focused on petty things like race that they don't realize that you are silently keeping them from ever achieving anything worthwhile. and it worked.
@@jzcovers7317 those actions exist but are strongly exaggerated.
serpenthydra it’s not so much that they’re trying to keep the divide going, it’s more so that they’re trying to force it close. Gentrification and aggressive policing to break up the black communities and have them live amongst whites. This will speed up admixture. If they wanted to keep the divide, they wouldn’t bother with breaking up the communities. They’d just keep them poor.
True, except for the "back then" part, as it's still happening today.
Conservatives today be like “that’s why I’m for small govt” yeah right after “big govt” set you and your family up to build wealth.
Great Lakes eff Candace Owens
Super super victim mentality
Jurgen Tosku and you’ve got a super gaslighting mentality, soooo pardon us while we disregard your opinion.
How do you guys feel about the treasonous occupiers of “CHOP/CHAZ”? See how that panned out ? DID YOU SEE how the BLM thugs killed an innocent 8 YEAR OLD BLACK baby girl just because her and her family had crossed over their barriers ? Black lives matter ? Yeah not when it’s black on black amaright ?
Cry more
Where do the asians, latinos and other cultures, ethnicities, and races fall in this?
Why are we out of most conversations as if we havent been in the United States since before it began. I dont understand why this happens a lot.
Nah im the only mixed(white/black) family in my neighborhood. Everyone is Filipino. Theres also a white family but that's it. Also there is a city where only korean/chinese live with sprinkles of white families and maybe one black one. Then theres one with all hispanics. I never really realized until i saw this video
Slavery.
@@mrnumba154 huh
Thank you for this video💛
The long lasting effect of this and other racial discrimination by the government is poor Black people don't view themselves as part of the community.
Exactly, but if a person of color criticizes the country they are called unpatriotic, case in point Colin Kaepernick. It's not a coincidence that the most patriotic group are mostly white and mostly male. They've benefited the most from government help that went specifically to them alone.
@Chelsea Love Do you tell white Americans not to complain? Poor Black and White Americans feel cheated by the system. They may have different views on the cause but the majority of America feels like they have been robbed of the American Dream.
@Chelsea Love America hasn't sufficiently invested in its future for the populist to contribute. Sad to say but the majority of us are ignorant. Immigrants and first generation citizens are the only reason we can even be competitive technologically.
@@19QKOO82 All Americans are cheated by the system. Regardless of race or class. The elites have us all enslaved and divided, just where they want us, while they sit back and collect the fruits of all our labors. And they get some bonus entertainment to boot. We are fighting the wrong enemy out of convenience.
I agree but what people don't get about this; it's not just poor black people that, are harmed by residential Segregation. It affects their kids for, the rest of their life! Case in point: First Lady Michelle Obama, this is why she was always so angry
Every person who dares to comment about "the democratic mayors in cities" in regards to places with high crime, they should be shown this.
There are so many rightwing talking points claiming racism is a myth. All in the service of continuing White Supremacy.
Sometimes information need to be brought to light so everyone understands.....this is amazing information, myself never looked at it this way, but it is as clear as day now, and BELIEVABLE....and EASY TO UNDERSTAND....
It should also be noted that in many suburban developments in the USA they had deed restrictions not allowing other people like Jews or Italians or Irish to live in the neighborhoods. But Jews, Irish, and Italians are some of the wealthiest people in the world today
Black folks have always known this my parents talks about this. I just moved from Brooklyn NY to the suburbs of Long Island not Levittown as described in the video but a similar town with my family because of the new problem of being out priced of my neighborhood. My family went from projects to a brownstone house in Bed-stuy in the 90’s and now that I’m an adult with a career wanting to stay in Brooklyn these same brownstones that sold for 200,000 Is now a million plus? The new generation can’t even afford to stay in the place they segregated us to be in years ago. Modern day inequality.
My boss from spain asked me why do all blacks live where they do. I explained the economic differences due to racism and he said no lol they want to live there.
So then why would he ask you if he already had his mind made up?! 🤣🙄 He's a loser🥴
Thats like giving someone a mile headstart in a race and ask the others in the back why they didn't win.
He was correct
I feel like this convo never took place and you're a liar. What you said makes no sense.
@@silverpairaducks Did you watch the video?
Tim Wise said this years ago...
Thank you (Now This) to bring this up.👏👏👏
I think what a lot of people don’t realize is that it wasn’t too long ago that the average person could purchase a home near a major city for less than $150k. Now it takes two people to afford a home and the home are like $285k minimum. That is also a very real problem that nobody talks about.
And so many overpriced home. The ones that should be $130,000 are priced at $450,000. Ridiculous.
thats everywhere dude. I saw a comment the other day, somewhere... this dude said he bought a house after dropping out of college and getting a part time job
LMAO. That''s impossible these days but back in the day
That's definitely a problem but its being talked about. Whatever real estate issues are going on, it's always exponentially more problematic if your black. Racial disparity is the issue here.
What could possibly be creating the demand for housing which drives up home prices and rents ? Everyone acts as if there is no reason for this. The demand should actually be going down since the birt rate has been falling for the last 50 years. There should be surplus of housing not a shortage. If you limit immigration you decrease the demand and prices will fall. Nobody wishes to discuss that fact. They all pretend that it is a great mystery why housing prices are so high.
One of the most honest Caucasian men I’ve ever heard speak.
Why no one takes this to the Supreme Court
very well presented
I love his book, The Color of Law. Those who need to read this, won’t. Or will and dismiss it as being a race reach. Very enlightening...some of the tiniest social engineering perpetuates institutional and systemic racism.
Butterfly effect 💯💯
Your comment was refreshing to read after so many bad ones :) My eyes were tired of rolling.
You’re right. It is a great book. I’ve read it twice now!
I read it a couple of years ago. You are right: “those who need to read this, won’t.” And yes; if they do, they will dismiss it as propaganda.
Now. For those of us who have read it; what are you going to take from it and apply or/and change the system? Or can it be? Please reply.
@@wedoebe I don't need to read it since I know for a fact there is no systemic racism in the US since 1964
Wow. My eyes are open now
Great points, but I wish there weren't so many jump cuts between different clips. Makes it harder for such important points to come across.
All of us need to spend $5 on a facebook ad to promote this and educate or reach as much ppl as possible with this information
I’m reading the book now, at first I didn’t fully understand reparations. But now, because of the wealth that many Whites have accrued through slavery and from blatant government policy’s and laws, it’s obvious that Black people deserve reparations.
It’s a great book, “The Color of Law.”
Indeed. I will read the book & pray I'm alive to receive reparations.
Thank you
I am white. None of my family's wealth had anything to do with slavery. Stop playing the victim and use the opportunities this country has given you to better your own life instead of asking for a handout from somebody else.
No wonder just racism in America if it's like that
We have the same here in the UK but we still aren't talking about it. Primarily black schools and neighborhoods. Primarily South Asian schools and neighborhoods. But we pretend to be integrated because every white school has a token black kid.
We have the same here in the UK but we still aren't talking about it. Primarily black schools and neighborhoods. Primarily South Asian schools and neighborhoods. But we pretend to be integrated because every white school has a token black kid.
Racism is every but in other countries they would try to hide. But he in the u.s they don't give asf and haven't made any changes and probably won't
@@rosejuliette9180 We have our own elements of it, but nowhere near to the massive and directly engineered degree that the US does. The results show for themselves.
@@rosejuliette9180 Segrated neighborhoods doesnot mean restriction in land ownership! U.K never put such extensive restriction of land ownership on people of colour! Immigrant labours from both South Asia and the Caribbean were given ownership to london properties after their settlement in London as valuable immigrant Labour! Examples of these are the Brick Lane and Brixton Neighborhoods where ownership was passed on to the South Asian and Black communities from its previous Jewish and white residents! America on the other hand kept such communities in Free Public housing! Therefore no ownership of housing or Land! That's not something that has happened to the communities of Colour in UK
I know this is a video of many video but for the sake of having difficult conversations with friends and family, can we get sources in the description?
I grew up in Snowball Gate, Levittown, Pennsylvania. My grandparents owned a home there. In the mid-90s my parents were also going to buy a home in Levittown. While my parents where at an open house an African American family showed up to view the house. The realtor walked up to them and told them they were not eligible to buy the house and asked them to leave. My parents grew up in segregated Levittown their entire lives and were disgusted by this discrimination. Hearing this as a child I was confused because for me Black America only existed on TV. Shortly after we moved to South Florida. It wasn't until I moved to South Florida at 11 years old and became the minority in school were my eyes opened. I love Levittown and Bucks County, Pennsylvania but I am thankful we moved to South Florida where we could experience and share in other cultures.
How can I like this summary a thousand times
This was quite the eye opener, I’m learning about new racial injustices everyday. But I’m grateful there are people like this guy who are out there making sure people of all races know the truths of this country.
@SsSs RoBbSs You done have to believe this site or that man, so how about you go out and actually research these laws and Acts instead of commenting on a channel you dont believe is telling the " truth".
It’s not unjust to want to be with your people.
The truth is blacks are hampered by a dysfunctional culture. Read Thomas Sowell. He goes into more detail.
This explains a lot, thank you
Very eye opening.
And this is why every ADOS in the United States of America is *owed* reparations. It's *not* just about slavery. Thank you Mr. Rothstein.
ADOS we coming
I'm all for reparations. It's literally the least a government could do and I'd even add that the reparations have a lot of interest that comes with them due to delaying it for so long.
Being that most white people today had nothing to do with slavery in the 1800's, and the decedent's of slave owners don't own slaves today nor ondone that behavior, it would be hard to tax anyone for that money.
Two wrongs don't make a right and taxing the decedent's of formal slave owners simply because they were born from that line of people is unfair.
Even if these decedent's profited in any way from the past 200 years ago, it's unjust to force them to pay for their forefathers mistakes.
Best thing to do is to fix things going forward.
But being that it's not just about slavery, how would you decide to tax people today who again, had nothing to do with policies from their forefathers? This issue, it's the same as people who can't forget about their past mistakes and fixate on it. That's stops any future progress.
@@XxUltimateGodzXx You don't have to tax white people, are you not listening? There's more than just 'lets fix this now' because that doesn't correct the underlying issues of laws being misapplied. Stop looking at this as some kind of magic wand fix of one thing then it's all better. You still have police brutality, crime sentencing, redlining, all these things. For instance, if we killed the billionaires and distributed all the money to everyone else, in 10 years, you have more billionaires because the laws are still unjust.
Your view of this issue is completely skewed and short sighted, not to mention self-serving.
moss linden i totally agree. the descendants of the african tribes who sold captives from other tribes into slavery should definitely pay reparations. go right to the source
been meaning to read the color of law -- this has sold me on it! gonna pick it up ASAP
Please also read about Bacon's Rebellion, race was invented by the elite whites to divide the lower social economic class. Blacks had the right to vote before they didn't and people married interracially before it was illegal.
I have thought about this time and time again. But how will this change????
This seems like a roadmap for anyone in authority to get a head start on making things more equal
Told my mom about this back in 2019 when I was hitting the lottery on being a suspicious person, doing my photography hmwk. She said it was all in my head and that I needed to change my perspective. Glad to know I wasn't crazy, great video.
Off track but they do hand out a few crumbs to black ppl. Two of my families members won the lotto for large jackpots
nope, you’re not crazy, show this video to your mom. 🤷🏼♂️
It’s sad to see how some black families missed out on generational wealth due to racist policy like these as well as the burning of black Wall Street
Ikr
@@NationalismDjazair So I'm guessing the argument here is that if not for discrimination of black people, there would be no wealth disparities with white people? So do the disparities between Asian and white families prove discrimination against white people? Or is it possible that racial activists are making huge assumptions concerning wealth disparities in America?
@@leonardu6094 what? Bro im just saying black people lost wealth during the 19th century.
Idc about ur issues
@@NationalismDjazair ?? Do you know what it means to lose something? You previously had it.
@@leonardu6094 Asians didn’t come here in chains and against their terms, you boys really have limited logic regarding this topic.
Wow...again. This story never fails to amaze me.
Thank you for this video.
If more Americans were as upset about the persistence of racism as I am about the way Americans spell the word colour this problem would be solved by now.
As soon as you lot stop saying "ally-men-ium" and "bazz-el", we'll add that U back into color for you. 😁 (But, I agree on the racism take. 👍)
@@sknkwrksowner 😂😂😂
Another serious problem caused by families growing up in segregated neighborhoods is the lack of diversity in personal social circles. Making it more difficult to build friendships across people of differing cultures. That purposely perpetuated a lack of empathy and understanding of the the black situation in this country within the white community. This made it possible for otherwise non-racist whites to develop micro aggressions and bias against blacks which were further perpetuated in many news media outlets. One clear example of this is how long it has taken many white Americans to understand and sympathize with the BLM movement. Fortunately that lack of empathy has turned around recently thanks to social media platforms which have connected black and white Americans by the easy exchange of information. That information namely being a multitude of viral videos proving the ongoing and pervasive oppression of black communities.
That's why organizers and protesters in L.A decided to take the protests to the nicer parts of the city (Beverly Hills, Fairfax, Santa Monica etc.) Richer areas where you don't really see blacks living in. That along with the rioting ofc. I mean have you also seen the socioeconomical statistics for both whites and blacks? Whites are able to keep generations afloat and financially stable while a lot of blacks struggle, hence the cycle repeats for many many years. A lot of blacks live in poorer communities with less resources around. Those communities ofc tend to be higher in crime rates. Society..the economy is all rigged against blacks. Did people really think racism was gone? Lmao.
This is so well said. You can even go further and look at representation in the media. Most of the characters we see on TV are white making it easy for POC to sympathize with white bodies but the reverse is not true and white people do not see stories of POC as often making it harder to sympathize the other way around
@@highland42 Thank you. You're absolutely right on all points. For decades the few Black characters depicted in films were either criminals, portrayed with extreme stereotype or promptly killed off in the first 20 minutes. Desensitizing White Americans against any shock from seeing black lives taken. One exception was George Romero, director of Night of the Living Dead in 1968, who placed a black man as the lead of the film and saving a white woman multiple times. The character still dies, albeit a hero, at the end of that film but it was banned from theaters throughout America at it's release, primarily throughout the south.
very important point the inner city black kid doesn't have the same network of people the white kid has or Latino because he is segregated from other races
@@Ben-oi6kz Thank You for keeping an open mind and learning American history. If you ever meet someone who might be open to doing the same, don't hesitate to let them know. 🙏🙏
I love this country with all my heart but our society has been evil and cruel.
Pray for world peace
When people reflect on history they view it as isolated stories. History and the present are very interdependent. Although we no longer see signs stating an all white neighborhood the mentality hasn’t changed. Many parts of America still operate in the same manner as mayor Orville Hubbard (Dearborn, MI).
The very idea of an all white neighborhood has long been the symbol for prestige. Not white by circumstance, white by purpose and intent.
Up until 1948 American law stood behind racist actions prohibiting blacks from buying property in white neighborhood. The law was changed, but the tactics to prevent blacks from taking up residence has not. Hubbard’s tactics: #1. No rental developers #2. Hassle black residents #3. Work with lenders and realtors to keep blacks out.
Dearborn was not the only town that operated like this, there were 100s of towns all across the US. Even beyond preventing blacks from taking up residency, they were not permitted in the town beyond sunset (sundown towns).
There are so many people who do not understand this!! They think we are all on a level playing field and we are definitely not
This video should be shown in every middle school (high school) in the USA ... POINT.
There wasn’t one black kid in my grade for the entire time I went to school.
And vice versa. It was like I want to be friends with white people but it was like somebody all ready made that decision for me. Never had a white friend never had a white classmate. We had 1 white kid throughout school.
I’m proud of and fully support my white counter parts in our struggle for black lives matter. The truth FINALLY needs to be heard with eyes and ears wide open.
I drove through a nice neighborhood with 2-story houses, a lot of expensive looking vehicles and every person walking on the sidewalks was white with blonde hair
Brian Jones How do you know that these people went to school, got a job and earned those things? The person didn’t even mention the name of the neighborhood yet you somehow know that everyone there earned what they have? A lot of people don’t have to ASK for handouts because they are automatically provided those handouts or given advantages as described in the video. We shouldn’t be dismissing the fact that there is still an issue with economic inequality caused by structural/systemic racism.
Brian Jones : Let me guess..you didn’t grow up in the hood...
@Brian Jones TWO WHOLE BLACK FAMILIES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD?! Wow - how did they slip in? Did your property values drop? Did some of your neighbors move out? I bet EVERYBODY in the neighborhood knows where those two black houses are, too, don't they? Are their houses right next to each other? Are they the cheapest or the most expensive houses on the block? Did you guys send out a welcoming committee when they moved in? I notice they do that in movies showcasing affluent white neighborhoods - cuz, y'know - y'all are so friendly and accommodating and want to be good and neighborly. Have you met BOTH black families? Are they just people who live on your street or do you actually know them? Have a relationship with them? Do you even know what they do for a living? Did you guys have a neighborhood meeting to let everyone know that blacks were moving in? Does the agent that sold them the houses still work for the company? What's an acceptable number of black homeowners in the neighborhood for you guys? Is there a cap or a limit? Do people worry/joke that your neighborhood is turning into "da hood" now? I find it fascinating. Especially that you know EXACTLY how many black families live in your neighborhood ..kinda like you're keeping real close tabs....
@Brian Jones so basically you watched the video and heard nothing 🙄🙄. Exactly why racism will never end, you can show proof and ppl will still be in denial
Brian Jones Just because you live in a “nice neighborhood like the guy described” does not mean that you can say without question that everyone in that described neighborhood went to school, got a job, and earned their way into the neighborhood. Your comment was based on an assumption. Your personal experience and the fact that 2 Black families managed to live in your neighborhood doesn’t negate the fact that systemic racism (discrimination in employment, housing, etc.) exists and has reinforced the racial wealth gap. If you choose not to educate yourself on issues that impact the Black community, that is your choice but that doesn’t mean that the issues don’t exist.
How do ppl not know this? I learned about all this in my history classes.
Before today, I've never even heard of this housing policy, so this was a really eye opening video. It makes me wonder, how can we right the wrongs of this policy? Is reintegrating communities an achievable goal? How can we achieve it?
So much for the “pulling yourself up by the bootstraps?” 😂🤣😂
I think you missed the point.
@@clairdelunatic they always do
@@clairdelunatic - The username is a giveaway.
When asked about “Reparations” his book is at the top of my list. He knows the subject well and explains it so clearly a child can understand !
What is the name the book?
8:23 the color of law
Im a Lifelong conservative, Ive read everything from Thomas Sowell to Beverly Tatum and Robin Diangelo. His work is well researched, accurate, and has hundreds of references for additional research if. These policies were clearly unconstitutional and every American should find it unacceptable whenever our government pushes any policy where race is a factor. The damage done by redlining alone was enormous.
I agree. I think the first step to the healing process is have a truth and reconciliation
Thank you for this mind opening bit of history.