Housing Discrimination: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- John Oliver breaks down the long history of housing discrimination in the U.S., the damage it’s done, and, crucially, what we can do about it.
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“I’m the thing that was devaluing my house”… that’s downright heartbreaking.
Yes!
Ain't it though? And it's the reality of millions of Black Americans in 2021.
That made me so sad and angry!!!!
I wish John and the show would let things like that sink in, rather than try to make a joke right after… yes comedic relief is very important in hard stories like this but slow down sometimes, right?
When my wife and I were selling our last home, we took down all family pictures. We also let our realtor be present when the appraiser came to our home instead of us. We already knew from hearing things like this and we weren’t going to take any chances.
If that town historian was genuinely that shocked, he wasn't a very good historian.
Signed,
Another historian
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Or knew and was in utter denial
I want to say that's harsh but it's also kind of true
Future generations will continue to be shocked…Modern state governments are making a huge push to prevent historians from teaching the reality of the systemic racism that continues to pervade our culture.
Yeah, I was a history buff growing up and in my early 20s. It wasn't until I got in college and majoring in history that I saw the seemy underside to our history. For example, the Tulsa massacre. Never heard of it before college. There is a coterie of people that have been working really hard to bury what happened. I remember a photo I saw of a lynching I found researching another event. In this case, pretty much the entirety of this small Tennessee town had turned out to murder these two black boys, torturing them horribly beforehand. This pic must have had several hundred whites underneath the hanging tree, most smiling, proud of what they did. It sickened me to know that some of those people were still alive, never having faced the slightest consequence for their crime.
"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there." MALCOLM X
How are we supposed to know what "the knife" is if you won't tell us? You can't be offended by the concept of everything without saying why it offended you "syrup is racist how it is how it is how it is how is it racist it is how"
@@filmtheory783 I think you are conflating the pc movement with my message. when Malcolm x made this statement he clearly and repeatedly described what the knife is and in some cases even described at as literal violence leaving no room for imagination what the knife is and who is doing the stabbing. Malcolm x also famously said a white liberal is the most dangerous white person, paraphrasing here. I quoted the statement in terms of racial discrimination in housing in usa which no liberal or conservative can deny and the anology was meant to highlight that the racist American establishments (mainly the banking liberals) still have the knife in the people's back and not only are they pulling it out but pressing harder, the only difference is they use modern pc means to achieve this. One more note, Americans have to realise that seeing the world out the lens of western right left wing politics is very subjective and lacks a world perspective, from a world perspective the most conservative american is just another liberal leftist pc zombie, comparatively to the average human world wide. so i encourage you to have a more objective outlook in life and not bring your pitty western left right wing politics into places where it doesn't matter and in reality is just pitty rivalary designed to brainwash Americans that they have democracy and that western govs dont actually just work for corporations, and distract the ppl from the fact that the western bankers which govs are slaves to are giving China more money in order to destroy Abrahamic monotheism. peace salam and happy truth seeking
@@filmtheory783 Ah, yes, because you don't have the arbiter of (most of) all human knowledge sitting right within arm's reach as you're reading this that you cannot _possibly_ search through.
...Snark aside, Aunt Jemima is a racist character due to a long, storied history- primarily because (and I'm quoting an NBC article here): "The character of Aunt Jemima is an invitation to white people to indulge in a fantasy of enslaved people - and by extension, all of Black America - as submissive, self-effacing, loyal, pacified and pacifying. It positions Black people as boxed in, prepackaged and ready to satisfy; it’s the problem of all consumption, only laced with racial overtones."
It's part of a bigger issue, but- not to mention, the original Aunt Jemima was based off a woman named Nancy Green, and Nancy was enslaved. Nancy had her appearance taken and corrupted for use in pancake mix and, later on, made into a toy for white antebellum children to play with.
Aunt Jemima's history is absolutely racist to its core, but that's not the point here. The point is that there has been deep, economic and emotional harm wrought upon Black Americans from the day they were forcefully brought to America. That is the knife. That from the moment Black Americans were brought to America as *property,* and not *_people,_* it has inflicted a deep wound that the people in power, our government, still refuse to fully accept.
The first three minutes of this video show a black family getting land worth 20 million dollars stolen from them by a local government after the KKK burned a cross on their property and you’re asking what the knife is?
The effects of systemic racism have conspired to keep African-Americans as economically, socially, and politically marginalized as possible. White America as a whole has refused time and again to make systemic changes to fix this. This is what Malcolm X meant by not acknowledging the knife.
In his view (and my own), pulling out the knife (making changes to the racist system to make POC’s not marginalized) is only half the battle. POC’s and especially African-Americans would still be at a disadvantage compared to white Americans because their ancestors had lived under those racist systems.
Going back to the family I mentioned in the beginning of this comment, pulling out the knife would be making sure that something like that could never happen again. It is not enough because the family in the present day would still feel the affects of the theft. Only by either returning the land or paying the 20 million dollars would the family achieve justice for past actions. Anything less would not be healing the wound because those that committed the theft, in this case the state, would still be benefitting from it at the expense of every member of that family who should have benefited from it.
@@filmtheory783 "How are we supposed to know what "the knife" is if you won't tell us?"
Apparently it's worse than not admitting. It is actively trying to convince everyone that the knife...is actually syrup.
Two and a half months after John talked about it, Manhattan Beach finally returned "Bruce's Beach" to it's rightful owner
Oh, so it was returned to the Native Americans who lived and worked on that beach for several millennia before occupation? :). They should get a sign at least now yeah? :)
Thanks for telling us.
Thanks for the update, I hope they get their money they're owed too.
@@jaegrant6441 J. flippin'..C..
@@jaegrant6441 as an Indigenous person, fuckin THANK YOU for acknowledging who "rightfully" "owns" the land. And we're not assholes, we've historically always aligned with Black people, so I'm very positive the Indigenous people in question would gladly share the land with Bruce and his family.
The woman who said ".. I realized, I was the thing that devalued my house..", That was absolutely heartbreaking.
It's bloody horrible. I am tearing up. :/
What sucks is that current black home owners who are in the process of selling have to remove all photos, etc. - and only their realtors are there when the house shows - to sell their homes for a good price; this is akin to everything she said.
What the hell... I love when we try to say our country isn't racist. There's sooooo many examples of blatant and overt racism that was built into the construction of our neighborhoods, jobs, and valuations of property. The worst people here? The ones calling me un-American for saying such things. We have a disgusting past that we shouldn't ignore, and we have to continue to try and do better in the future. Otherwise, let the leaders just come out and admit what they want so everyone that isn't in on that plan can leave and let the "whites only" supremacy have their country and let it burn. Gross that we have done what we did over and over and over the last 400+ years.
They need to stop turning neighborhoods into hoods.
@@robm2681 You need to stop being racist.
"If you stick a knife in my back 9 in and pull it out 6 in, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They won’t even admit the knife is there" - Malcolm X
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Great analogy!
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Uh, so, you think getting the knife out is not progress? Okay, leave in there then.
@@TDrudley you got them there, congrats!
While the rascism is obscene I am just as amazed at how easy it was for boomers to settle down in life. No down payments, low or non existent interest rates, and very low monthly payments. And now that same generation keeps insulting everyone nowadays with their sermons on hard work.
Yeah, I don't think that disparity in affordability was addressed enough.
They were handed life on a silver platter and then devoted the rest of their lives to depriving everyone after them of the benefits that got them where they were. Would it surprise you to learn that in the 1970s the Baby Boomers were nicknamed "The 'Me' Generation"? Seems like they've been trying to foist that off on every successive generation since then.
It was easy because a portion of the taxpayers were denied access to federal benefits. There was more to pass around to the boomers.
@@UnDark1 Yes, but it still would have been easier to get established in their generation if a portion of the taxpayers weren't denied access. Back then federal programs were actually funded, the ultra rich had less tax loopholes so they paid (closer to) their fair share in taxes, and college tuition was subsidized by the government (making it free for many Americans).
Today... we get less federal benefits due to underfunding AND a portion of taxpayers are denied those benefits. Boomers truly combined the worst of both worlds for future generations.
Don't blame it on federal benefits.
As others have said, Rose proves that the 'they're from an older generation' argument is nonsense. Rose seems like such a sweet woman.
Indeed
She looks a lot like my grandma, and honestly seems to act like her too. I have the greatest grandparents that have ever existed.
Rose, opened the book and read it. Not judging it by the cover.
Something we all need to do a little bit more.
@@Angry5704 congrats! Make sure you cherish every moment you spend with them and get their recipes (Grandmas always have the best recipes. If you have those it will help you get through the inevitable grief 🙏)
it does not tho. Yes it shows that this argument is not just a get-out-of-jail card one can hide behind. Bad things were bad even before, but circumstances matter a LOT.
Man, I cried a little when Carlette said "I'm the thing that is devaluing this house." :( 21:20
Me too.
that's just brutal, nobody should have to live through this
Ehhh maybe because they got skin in the game? Or at least assume they have?
@@Chris-rg6nm Preach!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
@@Chris-rg6nm We all sadly know why. America has a long long very long way to go.
Schools in Texas have never equalized the funding for education, even though a federal judge ordered them to when I was in elementary school. I'm now 51.
Blue EYES matter
It really explains why there are now so many magnet programs for schools in low-income neighborhoods, trying to attract ANY additional funding.
@@emjay2045 nah, some black people have blue eyes. They don't matter.
Many white people have brown/green eyes. I have grey eyes.
It's still just size that matters. Having people in certain positions in government... In the police, as a landlord...
I wish it were just blue eyes, some contact lenses would have solved a lot for many (albeit still a wrong solution).
I'm sorry. I live in Texas, too and you actually expect the government to do the right thing? Has that actually EVER happened unless it made them money somehow. Most of them need to be put in jail. Like our last Governor who became a millionaire using his inside information on land deals. He should have been put in jail; instead he ran for president. Every time I vote I wonder why I even bother.
@@AlexFenrirGochad yah I was actually in a magnet program and this school was in a poor black neighborhood where a lot of my family lived. Now I know why they would want to attract white families to the school to get more funding.
One my college professors went into detail about redlining. He even pulled out an old map of our city that was redlined and compared to what are considered "bad areas" it was almost exactly identical. It absolutely blew my mind.
I got cold chills reading this and imagining the maps.
The redlines so accurately predicted 2020...truly amazing insight.
@@aubreyalbanese4440 i got chills the first time I was doing research for a project in high school, and I looked at a map of areas most affected by a hurricane, and then a map of wealth in the region, and then a map of racial segregation, and they were the same map down to so many little cracks and bumps. And thats when I truly realized how little progress on racial equality this country has made. Despite the fact that we had a black president, and despite the fact that we had passed the civil right act in the 60's, which was something they had focused on so heavily in my education as a child.
It’s funny like someone else said in an earlier post, when you live it, it’s not surprising it’s expected. The historical and present lived experiences of Black Americans result in expected discrimination. Same land different expectations.
Education in action! That's a good professor!
In case nobody knows, or hasn’t gone to look it up yet… THE BRUCES GOT THEIR BEACH BACK! In July, 2022 the county finally returned it to the family, and that shit is dope to see. Now, we just need to do it a few million more times 😅
wonderfull =D
Yeah, for the native Americans.
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Awesome!
explain yourself you want to kick people out of home they own for people of color and white people can be homeless
Just imagine all those African-American soldiers fighting in WWII, dying to fight the most horrible manifestation of institutionalized racism and discrimination. And after all that they come home to realize that their own government is (still) just a different shade of the same evil.
and this STILL perpetuates thru-out the armed forces today, as all of the fore-mentioned problems/tricks exist today.
Not to mention they were segregated and treated abysmally whilst fighting by their own peers. A good number of them just stayed in Europe. I can’t say that I blame them.
Remember when Vietnam vets came home and got spit on? You are right. It is a different shade of the same evil.
An evil that the nazis literally took notes from.
Pretty heart breaking!
"Hey, sorry not sorry we took your ancestor's land... uhh, here's $350k, but we're not giving it to you...
Look at the sign, though!"
They ARE planning on giving the land back. Didn't you watch the rest?
@@pjv9361 the County is planning on giving it back, the city council only put 350k towards art
@@pjv9361 but will they give back the land they stole from the nativ amaricans?
@@gigantomato Native americans had no concept of land ownership.
@@franklinnartz1381 Might as well deprive someone of oxygen and then say "It's okay, he had no concept of oxygen ownership".
27:14 "This country has come a long way and, with God as my witness, it will not go any further" - Mitch's political philosophy and life purpose in a nutshell
The church mafia infected politics and refuses to apologize for the miles of abuse cases.
His virtue signalling is infinite.
More like in a turtleshell
This is still going on right now. Minority community gets WAY less investment from government and private firms. Most of the tax money and real estate developer goes to white neighborhood. You look at Chinatown around the US where are usually locate in prime locations are TOTALLY neglected from government funds and services resulting into border slum with homeless people PURPOSELY placed there in order to bring the property value down so that Uncle Sam's white community can buy it cheap and then develop it. The same can be said with high Hispanic and black regions. Its NOT that these region are not generating enough tax money. AS a matter of fact, I see more spending and more cars parked in Asian and Hispanic shopping centers than those on white. Yet the property tax money never goes to these region usually leaving bad infrastructure to bring the value down. Banks work the same way too. They dont even bother investing on small firms focusing on these market. Instead we see the usual plain vanilla bran restaurants, supermarket and what not. This is the real discrimination of the this country.
@@fredh8065 it's not a color thing. It's a enabled multinational church mafia thing, as willfully ignorant types of people want to pretend 9/11 and war$ and pandemics produce real afterlives rather than fictional mythology based ones.
John missed an opportunity to say "Do you want Snoop snooping?"
I cringed when he missed that easy layup!
I was legitimately yelling at the screen when he didn't say that. Such a massive missed opportunity.
This is more epic. The keyword is in the name. "SNOOP"
Bravo
He also could have brought in a fat guy with an orange mustache to say “snooping as usual, I see!”, but life hits different.
I just want to thank John and his team for the amazing work they are doing. Not many people even want to address the issues they do, let alone so in depth and easy to understand.
Mitch just said out loud that the Civil War was about slavery.
Good catch!
And?
@@abiyoyo9831 You dont live down south do you?
@@abiyoyo9831 i guess you had not heard all those "states rights" we been hearing for decades.
@@woaddragonSo wars can’t be fought for multiple reasons?
I love that one woman's response when people tried to fearmonger her out of her home. "Hell, I'm gonna join 'em". That's nails, that is. Love it.
McConnell: "I don't want to address issues from 150 years ago. None of us are responsible. Now if you excuse me, I'm about to live my luxurious life, which was handed to me, cause my family is filthy rich. And has been, for generations, for reasons I cannot go into right now."
You don’t seem to know what quotation marks are for. “”. You use those when you are quoting what someone actually said
@Lee Johnson You don’t seem understand a joke
@@julioklj8 Yeah that's pretty inaccurate. Quotation marks exist to indicate direct speech. And even though these words have only been attributed to him, you still need quotation marks.
He's right that 99% of white Americans alive today are not responsible for the plight of African American people. But that's only relevant if reparations happen at the expense of white people, which is not true. All that is needed to fund reparations is taking money out of the military budget, or raising taxes on the middle and upper class. America has plenty of wealth to go around
@@julioklj8 STFU LEE.
“I’m the thing devaluing my house”. Real tears.
Lol
I'm curious what these appraisals looked like. Appraisals all need evidence to back up their opinion.
The laughter @@despain8726 ? 👀
Only a Clansman would.. 🤔
@@jashanestone Only a Nazi would think that only a klansman would laugh.
They definitely were real...so do you want real tears like the survivors from the 1921 Tulsa massacre showed...or the family of Emmitt Tills?
"Don't just let the audio of this play in the background while you're working, click back on the TH-cam tab and look at me" really caught me off guard lmaooo
Felt so much like he was calling me out lol
I had to look up from my phone in shame lol. Was worth it. That tree can indeed, get it lol.
Hey I had Digimon stuff to do okay, I mean it's not as important as what John was talking about but still it's fun.
Stop reading all of those comments and look at me 🤣🤣🤣
I had to go back! He got me!
This man is a treasure. The best thing about TH-cam is you can get direct and concise facts from people who do the research.
People forget we gave reparations to slave owners, not the slaves themselves after "abolition".
WTF...
I say abolition in quotations as our prison system is basically replaced slavery and when/if you get out for the long haul its likely a wage slavery situation
This is indeed a fact. When people call this country racist, and claim that is the country’s foundation they’re right. We have centuries of documents/receipts that prove so.
@@user-qp4ij4yl8y ok and black people are incarcerated at 5x the rate of white people
@@user-qp4ij4yl8y elaborate on that, you're walking the line between based and cringe depending on your intent by putting races in quotations and by what experience you're referring to.
If you're referring to excessive incarceration and wage slavery yes people of all ethnicities experience this in the us, as we are all as workers oppressed and exploited to varying degrees under a capitalist organization of the economy, but certain demographics are disproportionally oppressed, which kind of what the whole video this thread is on is about, but its a video made my a massive corporation that can't be too honest about systemic issues that it benefits from.
21:22 "I'm the thing that's devaluin' my house." No, racism is devaluing your house. *You* are priceless.
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Everyone devalues their house via wear and tear
Well said.
@@konigstiger3252 Good point. Racism *and* those who turn a blind eye to it. Well illustrated. Ta
So glad John mentioned Long Island in this piece. As someone who is a black person that grew up there, it is one of the most divided places ive ever seen in the state of New York.
I grew up in predominantly white Town on LI, I remember when I was around 12 and went to middle school I was shocked that on the otherside of the road across from my middle school it wasn't apart of my school district, it was another district entirely. The other side of the street didn't look that much different except for one motel that was kinda sketchy. For the life of me I never could figure out why the other side wasn't in my district. That was until my HS coach told me that in the 60s during a school board vote they decided to snip that section out of our school district because the resident over there were about 50% black. LI is one of the most racially segregated places in the northeast. Few towns are diverse most are one race or ethnicity whatever those may be. My grandmother told me that even as recent as the 80s realtors would get blacklisted by entire communities if they ever sold a house to a black family.
@@clevernamegotban1752 Lol I think we lived on the same street
It's pretty similar in most major suburbs from Atlanta to Boston and Chicago to Houston
If I'm not mistaken, school segregation is actually the worst in New York City
The Color of Law was our orientation reading assignment for my law school. Fantastic book! Incredibly informative and I'm so glad I read it.
A tall man peering over a 6ft wall as the origin of "Snoop" is now canon.
"cannon" or "canon"? 😁
100% yes.
This "cannon" you speak of must use green powder to fire instead.
@@zakkvanish3668 basically SCP-1132-J.
@@psuedonym9999 I did not know that 😂
I wonder what it is like to have your wealth artificially inflated that way by the government? While telling others about hard work, perseverance, and freedom (within the context of the American Dream) being the true deciders in one's life.
It’s like being born on second and scoring, then telling people who can’t afford a ticket they lost the game.
It's like being raised by parents who espouse the virtues of hard work and who either aren't aware of, or don't mention the help they got. It's like going to school every day and reciting the pledge of allegance, reaffirming that america is all about liberty and justice, so there can't be any systemic inequality going on. It's like being told that anyone who doesn't make it in america just isn't trying hard enough. Then the worst part is finding out that those were all lies to make us feel better about the crimes of our ancestors. Or maybe the worst part is finding out that there is nothing you can individually do to alter the momentum of several generations worth of nationilized self delusion. I'm glad that people like John are putting this information into the mainstream, but I get depressed whenever I think of how resistant some people (my parents in particular) are to this sort of unflattering information.
not really people still have it hard with their wealth being inflated by the government either way
@@chrisjohnson8976 Spot On!
@@Cecilia-ky3uw yeah so imagine what it’s like for the entire generations of people who were *actively* deprived by that same system. Can you imagine how bad *they* have it?
I have been watching last week tonight for a few years now, and I personally believe that this the best episode yet. They bring up a lot of information that, as someone who considers himself well educated, is very new and interesting. They also balance the cold hard truth with very good comedy. They did an exceptional job in not sugar coating the truth with a lot of fluff to keep the viewers from getting scared. I’m very happy with the way that this episode turned out. Keep it up John and all of the behind the scene writers who made the script for this episode possible. You all did an amazing job and deserve the recognition for what you have created this week.
I am sure the land will be returned. We just have to wait for the sea level to rise some more.
So sad but so true
@@qloudlet exactly what I was going to reply to Thomas. It's crazy.
I was thinking this... and then the state will fine them for flooding or some other made up BS
And as Ben Shapiro says, so what if the sea levels rise you can just sell your house (that is sitting under the sea) and move elsewhere no worries.
Touché !
I just can't get over the $350,000 dollars being spent on an empty gesture. They may as well have paid Banksy $350,000 to spray paint "we're sorry" on the back of that tombstone. If that joke offends you, now you feel a small bit of what the descendants of the Bruce's must have felt when they found out about the actual "commemorative art".
Didn't John state that they said they were wrong but stopped short of a formal apology, so "We're sorry" is straight out.
@@Vort_tm I guess it would just say "oops" then.
That is easy, first of all, that 350k is government money, so the mayor/whoever in charge to spent it. Goes to his buddy who is an 'artist' (but in real life most likely a drug dealer). Than in change of the 350k the goverment buys a statue and places it. The guy in charge gets a load of free drugs from his buddy as a thank you for the assignment.
I also wondered about that gesture as well. Didn't John say none of the descendants lived there anymore? The city would have been better off sending a check to wherever they lived now.
Ooooooooooooooooo
"Winston Churchill once famously observed that Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else." You should do a report on what has been done to black farmers…..
I'm always amused when people trot out this quote. Sure, it's a fun dunk on Americans, but leaning on _Winston Churchill_ as a source of moral authority is laughable.
I think The Daily Show with Trevor Noah did a piece on what happened to black farmers
@@OlOleander I was just thinking the same thing. Anyone not informed on the subject should look up just what Winston Churchill thought of India and its people.
@@OlOleander That is church!
@@OlOleander thank you
A nation of Roses and Angies getting day wasted on the porch…I’m in!
I'll join you as well and bring some food to munch on 😊
Rose and Angie are roll models.
We need a Rose for every Karen, that'd straighten things out.
Come to Baltimore! We still day drink on stoops. Can’t promise no racism, but compared to other cities in the US, we’ve got better vibes. Then again I’m biased.
I'll bring gummies if you let me come 🙃😉
The blatant racism almost made me miss how absurdly easy it was for the past generations to get a house and be independent with no college and just one job.
Respect to Rose and Ange for standing their ground
thank you civil rights kishibe
They got married once it became legal for them to do so...
Are they alive?, it would be great an interview.
@@davidhollenshead4892 don´t make it somethink disgusting
@@ThelastArchdemon47 how is it disgusting if they DID marry?
I love Rose Mason here. Just the way she is so considerate and says "Pardon me, Angie, these are not my words".
This is a person who knows that words are meaningful, and can cause hurt, and wants to help mitigate that hurt rather than perpetuate it.
"Hell I'm gonna join them!" Hell yes Mrs. Rose Mason. Hell yes.
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That woman's comment made my day!!
Loved it 😂😂😂
I like Mrs. Rose Mason very much
Aboslute madlad and god damn hero
Anyone else feel like "Mitch" should be used in forms like "Stop acting like such a mitch", or "You're being really mitchy today"?
Yes, he is such a Mitch!!!!
OMFG. I am using that!
Kevin Hart uses that in one of his shows actually.
Yeah, also, anybody who loses a game and then starts insinuating that other players may have cheated should henceforth be called a "cyber-ninja."
One player: Snake eyes again?! These dice must be loaded with, like, magnets or something!!!
Other player: (eye-roll) Whatever, cyber-ninja...
Mitch, please!!!
20:37 She is such a genius. Plain and simple. She is actually a genius.
That said, it genuinely made me tear up when she said "I'm the thing that is devaluing this house."
That's how you know this is on another level. :(
@Livin Vids yeah cuz 2 appraisals said it was worth so much less when she was there vs when the white guy was for the other 1. Seems like it was the only difference.
@Livin Vids the critical thinking skills of a 5 year old? Please, I bet a five your old can make more of a coherent written argument in contrast to the verbal diarrhea you just spewed.
Why are right wingers the dumbest?
@Livin Vids Then let's see YOU control for other variables.
@Livin Vids Can you believe morons who use "communist" or "Marxist" as an insult?
That is INFINITELY more stupid and bigoted than just blindly uncritically calling everyone racist.
(All the reasons most of the commenters to this video for calling the US government racist and specific individuals racist for their ILLOGICAL/i.e. LOGICALLY INCONSISTENT actions ARE valid reasons for calling them racist. More accurately, for FORCING unfair unjust loans and housing discrimination that seems inexplicably correlated with race.)
@Livin Vids give us the reasons then. Being so opiniated while having no argument. Should be ashamed
Mrs. Rose was so chill. I know it was a different time 50+ years ago, but her apologizing to the one black woman next to her for what she was quoting was sweet.
Lmlppn bbb
Love that clipped, replayed it, just that clip.
Yeah, I liked that too. She didn't shy away from saying it, but she made damn sure to point out that she was quoting an asshole, and she respected her friend.
That's the mature, civilized way to handle that word, I think. The way we're doing it today, where some people aren't allowed to say it under any circumstances, while other people are trying to reclaim it and make it cool...? I don't think it's working, and I think it may be doing more harm than good.
@@austenhead5303 it is. And even though she has her own issues, it is what Rowling was getting at with Voldemort. Not a great word and shouldn’t go around using it all the time but straight up banning people from it? That’s censorship and it’s own form of wrong. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
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🤦🏿♂️ You were 🤏🏿 close.
just that little 'pardon me angie, these are not my words' makes mrs. Mason fuckin OG
@@mikemann1960 WHAT
@@mikemann1960 yea bro are you h i g h
That woman needs to be in the senate
@@mikemann1960 what the fuck did I just read?
@@mikemann1960 *A smirk glistens across Mikes's face* Now the world will know how smart I am.
I wonder if John is ever gonna talk about the financial unsustainability of American suburbs, bad City design. It's a subject right up his alley bc it harms everyone and almost nobody knows about it.
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Ah, do you also watch Not Just Bikes?
Most American suburbs (particularly the over priced ones) are a time bomb. Hopefully reparations kick in before the next bubble bursts so we can all get in on the ground floor!
@@mac533 You guessed it!
@@Kasslim11 not just bikes is underappreciated😉. I like the "smart trafficlight" analysis (knew we had them but not just hów smart they actually are😂). Or the, what was it, "stroads"? That silly crossover between street and road?
"Don't just let the audio of this play in the background while you're working."
I feel called out. But yet, I did need to look at that tree.
Wait! The city paid $350000 for that plaque, yet it wouldn't cough up some money for the families who were robbed of their land?
Yea thats how they squeeze tax payers for money, by over budgeting and then convincing everyone that it's for the good of the community
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And they paid it to themselves. They own the contractors who built it.
The State of California recently returned the land to the Bruce family.
It’s the real estate equivalent of DEI programs in disproportionately white workplaces 😂 It’s an effort to look good without making change
"We can't be expected to accept guilt for things that we weren't around for"
"I will now proceed to give credit to all the things we did that we weren't around for"
While also still playing on easy mode by willingly taking part in the bounty of the oppressors that came before~
@Naughty Spicy Corner nope cuz black people did not kill 400 million whites over the course of 500 years
What a great inspiration, that Rose. I hope her and Angie lived a good life.
"Hell, I'm gonna join them!" Fucking legend.
Boo copycat
crazy thing is, they’re probably both still alive.
segregation was not that long ago at all, and the entire civil rights movement was filmed and photographed in color, they only show black and whites to make it seem like it was so long ago
@@kidthekiddo8996 I think its hard to say the entire civil rights movement was filmed in color when these issues went back hundreds of years
@@TheJerbol When Americans refer to the civil rights movement, they generally mean the movement in the 1950s-1970s led by the Reverend Dr King, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, and others. The period between the end of WW2 and the Civil Rights Amendment.
@@kidthekiddo8996 If I have the right Rose Mason, it seems like she passed away just a few months ago, as an absolute legend.
I need to borrow one of y’all husbands is the best line of this segment.
If there had been more "Rose", maybe America would be a better country now.
Or maybe if there had been less Epstein, Madoff, Sackler and so on .... A country with a lot of honest/respectable people is still a bad country if the greediest malicious people have power/money ...
@@benmat Sometimes, to have a real change, it's more powerful to focus on the "good" people. To set an example to follow and to give people the courage to do the right thing. :-)
Take a statue of a confederate general down and put a statue of Rose and Angie up
@@ingleseperitaliani7042 People are victims of their circumstances and culture until they start to think for themselves. I don't think that concentrating on one or another of the "good" people is helpful or even enlightening. Deeds and activities are that on which we must focus. Leave the statues for the pigeons.
I have to shake my head in disgust at the realization that one person ran for President of the USA in 2016 , and won, on a slogan that implies making this a better country... and everyone "knew" what he meant... and it wasn't racial harmony.
I want to be Rose and Angies friend- They are awesome. I hope their grandkids know how amazing these women were.
I wish there were a follow up on these two ❤️
Giving them lots of credit for just being decent damn people. Wild.
They probably shared grand kids or great grand kids
These people still exist all over the place in great number but they are shamed for "thinking" they are not racist, or made fun of or insulted for trying to stop racist habits and mindsets in themselves.
No matter what, no matter how much of their time and energy and heart is put into educating themselves or undoing deeply embedded mindsets and habits, they are still one of the bad guys. Ironically, it is based solely on the color of THEIR skin.
@@normaforsyth7950 Are you doing the CRT/reverse racism thing?
Wouldn't surprise me one bit to find out the Bruces were given their property back, then told they need to pay the back taxes covering the time they didn't own it. 😨
That would be the trick in all this would it not.
Shit man, even if they didn't have to pay back taxes, they may not even be able to afford the current taxes on the land considering it's immense value. That's why this entire problem is so complicated to fix. If anyone is given land back it will have to come with years of additional tax breaks or exempt status so that those people won't have to immediately turn around and sell the land
@@hitthegoat if he's smart he'd sell immediately. That money, if invested right, could set his kids, grandkids, etc. up pretty well. Furthermore, if sold and invested correctly, they wouldn't have to pay taxes on it, property or otherwise.
Oh my gods. Fuck, please don't make it so.
Oh gods, that's what's gonna happen. Why capitalism!!!!
The annual property taxes on beachfront property are probably pretty darn high. So "Hey Bruce, here's your land, and a bill"
My family had land stolen from us also. For most of my life, my mother and her siblings have been fighting to reclaim it but because it's been broken up and sold to so many families most lawyers say we'll never get it back.
This is so sad, I'm sorry that this happened to your family
Gonna take a moment to appreciate whoever did the title card for this episode, love the negative space of a face within the house key
Truly well done.
I would never notice until i read your comment, thanks for pointing it out. And i looked at that key and was reminded of this other video i saw where a locksmith would punch out the metal sections of a blank key to form the teeth to fit the tumbler, but now i can't unsee the image of a face
Wow, I didn't notice that! Which is funny because I kept looking at the spike at the tip of the key and wondering why the artist chose to make it so long haha
I totally missed it too. I’m into locksport so I was trying to make sense of the bitting and looking at the details. Guess I just couldn’t see the forest through the trees.
Damn I didn’t notice that
20:30 this is so depressing, when the woman finds out "it is her that devalues the house". America, you're fucked up seriously
There is literally not enough proof to say that, it was flagrant reporting. It should be investigated but there are tons of reasons why different appraisals at different times come to different values. Just think about how much a post covid real estate market has spiked. There was no info on when the appraisals were done either so they could very well be comparing a pre-covid value to a post-covid value.
@@NoneNone-mu2se Yeah sure buddy
@@NoneNone-mu2se What if they did it five times in the same week and got similar results. Would that change your mind?
@@NoneNone-mu2se Yeah sure buddy
@@NoneNone-mu2se as a black home owner who jumped through hell to get that home... I see you... I see you... can we just be gone and have a real honest discussion? Like can we talk about it? Cus you have fear of me being on the same level as you and that’s what we need to talk about. Let me know, I’m here to really do this work. Cus I truly believe I can’t heal from racialized trauma if you can’t heal from it as well. Truly best wishes, hoping we can talk. Direct honest speak, that’s what we need.
The 70's wasn't that long ago... This is quite depressing
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What about the women who had an appraisal for $150,000 less because the appraisers saw that she was black? That happened last week, not 50 years ago. This country is awful.
@@willamtaft5899 This was one of the more shocking revelations in this video. I wasn't surprised about a lot of the others because I had heard about in some way or another before. ( not justifying any of it ). But the appraisal was shocking. Funny thing is where I live you can get an appraisal online without even meeting anyone, purely based statistics of your house and lot and data on the neighbourhood and recent sales of comparable homes. Although that could let racism creep into it as well of course
@@willamtaft5899 so depressing
@@willamtaft5899 yep. That shocked me. And that woman saying "so I am the devaluating factor".... Can't imagine how that must feel for her.
Whenever anyone says "But racism is over, we elected a black guy", they fail to remember we then IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER elected a guy who questioned whether the black guy was even born in the US. So no, racism is not over. I see it all the time at work, and I'm white! We have people who come up to the front desk at work, ask a question, one of my black co-workers gives an answer the customer doesn't like, and the customer LOOKS AT ME and repeats the question! It's fucking insane how overt it is, that they want me - the white guy at the desk - to countermand or re-explain the correct and honest answer my black coworkers already gave!
It's so... I don't know what the proper word for it is. Disheartening? Alarming? It's some weird mix of those two emotions.
This should be taught in history classes. Not doing so is lying by omission.
That is the point of Critical Race Theory, when you here people arguing against teaching Critical Race Theory this is what they are trying not to teach.
I was a history professor and wish I could go back in time and redo my lectures on Levittown.
In Texas they will be omitting more than just this sadly. They're getting rid of reaching about kkk, jim crow, MLK and much much more. It needs to be stopped!
I did teach this and got summoned to the principal's office for making white students uncomfortable. I was ordered not to show a video illustrating the accumulation of wealth by white people that was impossible for non-white people. Teachers have to be backed up by administration, Boards of Education, and the community.
It’s been made illegal to discuss in my state. Good job, Oklahoma
Levittown is where Bill O’Reilly was born and raised. I remember this being brought up by Jon Stewart in a debate and or interview with O’Reilly. When Bill said he never had any advantages over black people.
That makes a lot of sense why he’s such a prick.
I'm surprised O'Reilly was spawned so far north...him being a cold-blooded swamp creature and all
@@DB2ID the racism is REAL in NY. It's just a bit more covert then some other places. The school system is one of the most segregated school systems in the country.
I watched the series "Them" and was shocked, even though it was fiction. Then I read "The Color Of Law" by Richard Rothstein and discovered that the facts were even more shocking than the fiction.
If you ask me, the primary function of fiction is to examine real world situations and issues through a lens of detachment from our real world prejudices.
My friend's dad was in a Japanese interment camp. He's 99 years old and hasn't received a cent from the government. The Government is waiting for all of them to die and not pay them.
Japanese don’t apologize, so waiting for a cent of that reparation money is pointless.
George Takei (Zulu from Star Trek) was a kid in those camps. He's alive today and talks about it😡
Yet you don't seem everyone in the media crying their hearts out over them, unlike black people.
@@komalahayes1535 Ok, not sure if he is talking about the American internment camps for Japanese Americans or the Japanese concentration camps for Asians and Americans.
@@han5vk Yes, you're right. We should definitely start complaining about that injustice, too! Good of you to point it out, I'll go see where I can join support for those poor Japanese ((and Asian-looking) families!
Also, when returning the land to the Bruce descendants, how do they then afford the property taxes on land valued at $20m that they never got to profit from over the years?
their relatives will have to immediately commercialize the property or sell it off unless they were offered some kind of grace period on the property as they commercialize it...
Seems to me that they should get a pass on the taxes because they haven’t had the opportunity to enjoy the value of the property for all this time.
@@arescue thats a slippery slope. They can just sell some of it off.
A special tax exemption should be put in place as a part of reparations
@@deansusec8745 Yeah because imagine how many other times we will have to address a centuries long oppression by the means of systematic racism. That slope is super slippery. /s
It’s crazy that same people whose families benefited from all that government aid now says the government helping anyone is now socialism or communism 🙄
exactly when government is helping white people en masse its ok they doing good job, but when its poc its socialism, reverse socialism it shows that white people see poc advancing as a zero sum game where their gains mean white people loss
There’s an entire aphorism around it. “There goes the neighborhood”
Holy shit
i was thinking that line the entire time, crazy how that phrase was the tip of a whole iceberg
@America Project Do you happen to remember what pub it was in? That would help the search.
The phrase, "the wrong side of the tracks" also comes to mind.
@@karenjohannessen8987 Hi Karen!
It's easy to say "move on" when you already reaped the benefits. It's awfully convenient to claim credit for the civil war and civil rights act but take no responsibility for the unfairly acquired wealth you inherited.
"We put it off long enough and did below the bare minimum until everyone involved died. Nothing more can be done"
Civil rights acts. 4 so far.. civil war was a war of secession. To the south, a fear of Lincoln... we just re spin it to some kind ethics. But it’s taught And both left and right, yeah, move on, forget the actual history. The elements of unfair wealth extend to everyone, John is skipping the natives who got this whole circus of ‘freedom’. John keeps using government defined ethnic backgrounds (color) which is part of the systemic prejudice, avoiding religion, culture
So if you own a piece of land, that it later turns out your great great grandpa bought with money he robbed from a bank in the 1850ies, you'd now have to give that piece of land to that bank? How would that be fair?
Especially when your supporters literally wave the flag of the side that fought for slavery in the civil war you're using as evidence that discrimination is over
@@Soff1859 wasn’t about fair in the first place. What if gramps murdered the people first? It’s really a what if as the truth is we as a nation we’re good with it and John is wrong about principles as he kind of bought into it immigrating here 😭
That part when the mayor said lets just move on sounded a lot like "Forget about it!!!"
It must be pretty easy to "move on" when you can afford such snappy suits, campaign funds, to buy your way out of any care in the world, and a solid gold watch like that.
Yeah I robbed the bank. So what? Move on already. That was in the past!
I'M WALKING HERE
But really none of the people under a certain age (say 60 or so) were of voting age at the time any of this happened. Making the younger ones pay for this stuff is exactly the same as sending you the bill a damage your long dead grandfather caused 20 years before your birth. Noone would think that is appropriate either.
"Your grandpa totalled my grandpas car in the 60ies. Now you have to buy me a new car"
Wait, what? Are there people still just learning about this?
More evidence to support the NEED for Critical Race Theory to be taught in schools AT ALL LEVELS.
When it comes to reparations... the Germans and Japanese were forced to pay reparations for the crimes they committed... in fact, it was not until fairly recently that Germany paid off its combined war debt for both WWs, it having taken them 70 years. Japan not too long ago paid reparations to surviving "comfort women" who were forced into sexual slavery by their occupying armies. They also apologized to these women for what happened(which is some real progress if you know about how they deal with WW2...).
Also both paid reparations to the USA after the war. Can't forget how the Jewish community received 50+ billion in reparations from Germany and then more from the Allies after the war... also the USA paying Japanese Americans $20,000 each in reparations for wrongfully imprisoning them during the war and caused many to lose everything they had(it is super screwed up how far the US government went with this, they even tried to have Japanese living in Latin America sent to the USA for imprisonment).
So I am very much wondering why African Americans who have suffered so much blatantly intentional discrimination, oppression and violence which effects them to this day are unworthy of reparations? It just seems like more racism rather than its opponents actually believing it is unnecessary. I am half black and Navajo, so two sides of my family can speak to the blatantly unfair double standards which exist in this horrible country... the closer you look at our history, the more the façade is revealed.
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this research & drop this knowledge -- I did not know all of that. You make a very compelling argument backed up by irrefutable facts.
The US government never owned a single black person. They’re owed nothing.
@@roxarecool this is blatantly untrue, the USA used slavery to build a nation, promised to free slaves who fought in the American Revolution and didn't... it legalized and benefitted from generations of forced labor. Yes the American government and this hypocrite racist nation owe black people... a lot. The USA government was explicitly involved in slavery and made it possible, so is at fault, fool.
@@wiseguy01 Bullshit. Private citizens owned slaves. Provide evidence that a SINGLE black person was US federal property.
@@roxarecool Who legalized it? Who endorsed it as an institution and reinforced it with laws? Oh right the USA government, many of the elected officials in said government owned slaves, banks accepted slaves as collateral for loans, and yes the federal government did use slaves and still does(calling it prison labor does not change what it is or that minorities are target more for incarceration), you can google this. It is not even just about the USA government using slavery it is that they legalized it and the whole of the nation benefitted from slavery as an economic system, fool. You just come off as a racist grasping at straws for any reason to not have the USA take responsibility for its crimes. Typical. Hell the USA paid reparations to slave owners whom were forced to free their slaves after the Civil War but you are so against the same for black people? Yeah, USA will always be a racist cesspool and divided, and people like you are to blame.
I literally can’t listen to anything Mitch McConnell says without being angry.
Sounds like you need to see a doctor.
@@aratosm if you’re not angry, you haven’t been paying attention.
Yea Mitch is a hateful turtle neck!
Imma sorta conservative, and I agree with you!
@@aratosm no, it sounds like he's been paying attention.
"The Color of Law" is a great book. I'm glad to see John reference it. I was thinking about it for the first 11:30 minutes.
The 2015 ~40 minute Fresh Air interview with the author is also outstanding.
Great book!!
I just requested it from the library. Thank you for mentioning it.
There’s also many books written by blacks that show these “examples of racism” are simply manufactured crisis. You guys should read those too.
For some content a like just isn't enough. Tremendous quality in all respects here. It would be an absolute honour to get day wasted on a porch with John, your crew and Rose and Angie.
I am 33 and it feels like I'm only beginning to comprehend the power of comedy as form of protected free speech and education, when done in a respectful, conscientious and diligent manner. Exemplary channel for how this should be done effectively here. Excellent.
Mr. Oliver, you always bring home the message so clearly that makes it difficult to miss the point! Respect to you Sir. I thank you as a person of color.
He has writers. ALI BARTHWELL, BEN SILVA, CHRISSY SHACKELFORD, DANIEL O’BRIEN, GREG IWINSKI, JOANNA ROTHKOPF Johnathan APPEL, LIZ HYNES, MARK KRAMER, OWEN PARSONS, SEENA VALI, Charlie Redd.
@@anony3615 while i feel this is an underrated comment, I could've done without the all caps. Blocks of text in caps just give me flashbacks of lunatics screaming that masks cause cancer or some other dumb shit.
@@ThePanMan11 yeah I copied pasted it from some website where some lunatic decided to have 75% of names in caps.
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Oggi
"During Obama's first term of office, I will do everything I can to see that he doesn't have a second term of office." - Senator Mitch McConnell
Luckily he failed
While millions of Americans were loosing their homes and jobs. That's the anti-American GOP.
Same can't be said for Trump though lol
For context: It was after the passing of the Affordable Care Act that this quote was made. Learned this from his most recent autobiography that i read about five or seven years ago.
@America Project I was referring to McConnells most recent biography. I unfortunately cannot remember the year it came out but there is a section about the ACA and that particular quote.
The short-sighted thing was that if they had let the African Americans become part of their neighbourhoods, they would have integrated and prospered, greatly reducing many of the factors that are so problematic now (wealth inequality, gangs, drugs, etc.)
But that would hurt the Prison Industry.
Excellent Analogy
Or wellbeing because that's unavoidable at all extents to be better and achieve a better life
Without some cash sorry
@@terryborzoff9279 Because of housing discrimination?
I could have sworn that John did a piece on real estate agents in the United States and how the whole system is absurd. Every time I search for it though I get this video and it's driving me nuts.
I'm interested
Pints on the porch with Rose and Angie would make a great daytime talk show.
It could also work in the evening with ice cream
Amen to that
somebody help! there's an unmonetized friendship on the loose! quick drag it down into the cesspit of the entertainment industry!
I’d enjoy sitting on the steps but the idea of a show seems to defile it somehow.
🤣💯💯💯💯💯
Wow!
Many of the suggestions could apply to Australian home ownership disparity. Feeling secure in being able to lay roots is important. Was recently forced to move, as the house I'd been living in for 7yrs was being repurposed. After a majority of my life changing address on average every 6 months (and many other adverse Life Events), to then be forced to move after 7 years, was a trigger for reactivation of PTSI/PTSD. Stability of home address is understatedly important to mental, physical, and financial health. All of which lead to Social health and stability
Relate. Thanks for speaking to this. Also have PTSD. 25 times in 15 years. It's not helpful
"That tree - don't just let the audio of this play in the background while you're working, click back on the youtube tab and look at me!"
- John ... he knows what you're doing. And he knows you need a second of a break. Thanks for aknowledging us.
Frfr I didn't expect him to call me tf out XD
He got me. Freaked me out 😄
I wasn't working I was making an ice road in Minecraft.
I literally swiped to another desktop right before he said that. Am so shook.
@@TayDoesStuff im pretty sure thats the first time ive ever been called out on live tv
Sometimes I try and explain this stuff to my boomer parents and they say that’s not a thing any more, even though we only have one black family in our entire neighborhood
Do you blame them? How could they bring themselves to think otherwise? If they did, this would mean their entire lives were a lie built on the oppression and blood of others.
People are going to self race segregate if given the choice. Just look at any expanding city. It is expanding in a segregated way. I assume someday that trend will stop, but not in our lifetime.
Show this video
@@kissit012 “liberal propaganda”
@@shotelco THIS!!! Well put
Thank you John Oliver. You have explained this subject so clearly that a child could understand it.
People: As long as we say we're not racist, we can continue to do racist things!
Or benefit from racist programs.
Saying you're not racist and denying you're racist.
Racism for you! Racism for you! Everyone gets the racism! Enjoy the wealth, freedom and American Dream.
-US Government
But not you. You get the shit end of the stick.
-US Government to Black & Brown folks.
Now if only the voters would prove that more often and kill the filibuster along with many other earth-destroying things in every John Oliver episode.
that historian who is both shocked to discover white towns engaged in racist housing practices and couldn't fathom a possible solution just points to willful ignorance. if you came up to me and said "guess what, this town you live in used to have a law making it illegal to sell to black people," i'd say "yeah i'm not surprised. that was basically every town in america for a long time and i can point you to a neighborhood down the street where that's still implicitly in effect." if you asked me what to do about the resulting wealth inequality, the only answer is reparations. i don't know why white people are so reluctant to say that. what's the problem with reparations? we give billions in tax credits to white millionaires and centibillionaires all the time, we can absolutely afford to give $100,000 - $400,000 - a million dollars or however much to black families as reparations. what are they afraid of? black people might start owning nice things too?
John, this is my life's work. I never thought it could be distilled in half an hour. But you did well. There's so.much here. I pray you inspired people to study more and try to open their minds.
But I fear it will fall into the crt muck and be disregarded.
So much has been left off, like the current government policies that encourage kids not to see their fathers.
@@theBear89451 agreed
Gotta love John Oliver!!!
My parents try to buy a house in the early 90s. Realtor try to steer them to questionable homes.
They just had to go to homeowners themselves who were selling in order to get a nice home. I don't think the seller knew our last name until the paper work happened.
@@bonzosmashes they just said that the didn’t. They worked with them until a pattern was clear, and then they didn’t. Did you read?
@@Vendavalez yes, another real estate agent was used afterwards once we knew what my parents wanted.
Funny story is we moved to a white neighborhood and those white people moved out.
"We fought in a civil war to end slavery" You're getting a little iffy with that "we" there, Mitch. I don't doubt your family fought in the civil war, but it sure a hell wasn't on the "ending slavery" side.
He's so old he literally meant he fought
But Mitch, I thought the civil war was about states right Mitch
“We” don’t owe reparations because we didn’t do slavery. That is in the past.
“We” fought in the civil war to end slavery.
Are you “We” or not?
@@marcoarellano6361 It was. One of those rights was the right to keep the institution of slavery, which we decided was not a right after all. There were other grievances as well. You should have paid attention in history class.
At least learn some history before spewing fecal material. Kentucky was apart of the union not the confederacy.
As someone who grew up in Lyndhurst, NJ, I can confirm that, yes it likely has something to do with a few candidates disappearing. The Sorpranos filmed most of the show here for a reason, ya know.
We found the opposite of a "Karen" it's a Rose.
We like Rose. Let's all be a Rose.
Her name suited her... very fitting. We like Rose
So sweet lol
Sigh, I wish this worked for me. I have a sister named Rose, but she’s a total Karen 🤭
@@Emiliapocalypse I'd view it in terms of a title, not a name so you can separate Karen from A Karen.
It is crazy how many instances of "borrowing a husband" are out there.
I have never borrowed a husband so I have no idea what you are referring to. Please e-mail me with an explanation unless it is something racist.
@@vonakenyon7981 Watch the video. It's explained in the video.
@@vonakenyon7981
Back in the 70’s my friends parents (black dad, white mom) couldn’t find a home to buy in our small town. Every time they put down on offer the house had “just sold to someone else “ or was taken off the market . After this happened several times, the wife “borrowed a husband “ (our white pastor). He went with her to look at houses and stayed quiet while she negotiated. They got the first house she made an offer on with the pastor along. The realtor didn’t realize he wasn’t her husband until the closing….. and then it was too late .
@@sonyaoverman3758 And it still happens to this day just with sexism slightly more than racism. As a white guy ive been asked several times by women (family/friends/coworkers) to go with them to the dealership so theyre not taken advantage of by the dealership bc theyre a girl and wouldnt know the difference. I have some knowledge of cars but not much.
@@bryanhelton5226 Yes but that is the basic of trade. As a seller you want to sell it for a highest price possible. When the seller assume you do not know about the items he knows he can go higher with starting bargain price. Statistically an average man knows more about the car than an average woman. But the same will happened with you as a man when you try to buy something which woman knows more about.
Ur thorough coverage of every subject is unparalleled, perhaps equally good as what Jon Stewart does. Soooo solid, necessary n important. Keep bringing it!!!
We refuse to believe there are insufficient funds for housing opportunities in the great vaults of this nation
Dr. Martin Luther King
And that’s one of the reasons why the GVT EXECUTED him
This is true history and should be taught in every school.
BuT tHiS iS CrITicAL RAce ThEOrY!!
Go Bruins
Critical Race Theory. This is why the right is fighting so hard.
It's illegal to teach this is Texas now. Recent law because white people got hurt feelings. 'Murica.
Yeah...until you grow up in a state like Texas
This is SOOOOOOO great that he is exposing all of this. I held a class (in one of my videos) that discusses exactly how eminent domain and redlining affected the community of color here in Portland Oregon. This is one of the motivating factors in why I got into real estate! It's time to f*cking address once and for all!!!!
I’m so glad you covered these real issues and how they are NOT over, and definitely still effecting communities of color today (hello TFG’s wall and Native land). I’ll be checking out your videos, because I love hearing different voices on serious issues.
All I’d like to say, for people trying to do further research, is that the law is ‘eminent domain.’
Any good books on this subject? I want to learn more about this.
@@terradusa4219 The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
You taught a class on imminent domain? That's really cool! Does it have any similarities to eminent domain? 🙃
Maybe living with a 40 hour week job and having good credit might help the color of your skin should not matter but usually don't end up that way because they don't got either
Could John Oliver invest in a puppet that looks like a melting sundae to be used in place whenever we have to see Rich Mitch talk?
I would suggest a turtle puppet, but that would become offensive to the image of turtles.
@@ToxicToastRecords Oh it's the John Oliver puppet guys. Why does he love those mascots. Is he a Panda?
@@jschuler53 a
Melting sundaes are much too appealing for this comparison.
What do you get when you cross a turtle with a ventriloquist dummy...
8:09 that’s Detroit. I live in Detroit, you should see some of those redlined neighborhoods now. Full of abandoned buildings and houses, neighborhoods with previously abandoned structures that have been razed leaving enormous fields of overgrown grass in the middle of a city. Trash lining the curbs ignored for years.
Our favorite talking British *toucan* is back!
He's American, now!
@@juresichj Well ethnically...
@@xylonbanda If Mr. Oliver ever goes on tour "Ethnically British" would be a funny title.
@@shawnhartmann4581 That would be a good tour title, especially if the main material is America and its, to put it nicely, things that can be improved.
@@juresichj wow racebaiting foreigners, just what we need. if we're playing this game i own 265 acres, a town, a post office, a creek, etc.
I can’t understand why it’s so hard for people to believe that their predecessors could have been immoral or made terrible decisions
I can't understand why it's so hard for people to believe that their neighbors ARE STILL immoral and continue to make terrible decisions. Points to neighbors still flying trumpo flags and blue line flags.
Unlike Canada, dont wanna make up for it
It's the same reason "serial killers".. enter a plea of..."NOT GUILTY"... when caught and charged...they simply don't believe that what they have done is..... WRONG!
I don't think the US were any more moral or immoral than the rest of the world at that period.
Whites were the first ones to abolish slavery and created the Human Rights. What does that say about other races? Would you acknowledge that your predecessors were immoral as well?
@@markusk9080 .Good point,.. however, give me an example of another group of people notorious for enslaving by skin color?
As for human rights,...it is one thing to conceive of such,.. but... (as the U.S. has proven). something altogether different to implement.
I would've hoped he'd address the notion of the sheer number of people that it affects. The longer you wait, the more people that would be affected. And how has that already changed.
Absolutely! The every single day the wealth gap spreads and communities of color and minority communities are the first to get slammed with shit hits the fan. This current housing boom is a PERFECT example
Good point, there is an exponential growth factor in economics that without question impacts racial wealth gaps.
I will say for the first time home buyer tax credit, that has to be available for everyone otherwise it would just be another form of discrimination and exploitation would put it in danger of being abused and ruined. You can’t really do anything there except make it available for all first time home buyers.
yeah unfortunately we can't just write racism out like we used.. say it's only for black people and you'll end up with the I'm a Native American problem we have today.
I don't know if he ever used the term "institutional racism" within that piece, but it's a perfect description.
That makes me wonder if that was a very intentional decision.
@@pmmmAMV All decisions are intentional. There is no such thing as unintentional discrimination.
The federal and state government can be used for 10,000 forms of coordinated racist attacks, but the second its proposed that this same government be used for 1 form of coordinated anti-racist policy its "The government has no right getting involved in this issue"...Heard it 60 years ago, heard it yesterday
You can't pass laws prohibiting discrimination and then expect to create new laws enforcing discrimination.
Remember, the government is comprised of people. People are racist, government is not.
"All men are created equal"
@@IDawgedYou apparently we did. It's America the land of incompatibilities and contradictions.
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Incentives drives behavior. "White"ness didn't mean anything, until government started to give benefits tied to whiteness, and denying and locking out "Black"ness.
Reconstruction was the last chance, this country had to fix this, in a more natural sense. We all know how that turned out.
The poverty/disparity in black America is just too wide for bootsrapism talk, charity or philanthropy.
Government has to allocate resources specifically to black America, give incentives to non racist whites, and punish racist behaviors.
The same thing government did then, has to be reversed engineered.
@@ICIP13 And maybe allow them to attend schools of their choice instead of the crappy schools the government (Democrats and unions) provide for them?
"Don't just let the audio of this play in another tab while you are working, click back and look at me." Excuse me John I don't appreciate being called out like this.
Made me laugh out loud at that.