The Color of Money
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A book that goes deeper into this conversation is The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Well worth the read, the story had a lot of nuances https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34758210
on “Rents for the rich are going down, rents for the poor are going up. Why?” ↗yes, i also liked the book The Color of Money by UCI law professor Mehrsa Baradaran. here's some of her research findings: "Today, Black families have a median net worth of $11,000 compared to a white family’s median of $141,900. Pew Research Center…
on “Black couple ‘erases themselves’ from their home, its value goes up by $500k” ↗…MLK, Paulo Freire, Cedric Robinson, and many more. Besides Anand Giridharadas and Rutger Bregman, a recent example of someone doing this important work is Law Professor Mehrsa Baradaran, author of 'The Color of Money’. There is a great summary of her arguments here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/banking-against-black-ca... I think these are some noteworthy excerpts: "The problem is, black capitalism has not…
on “Haters” ↗…factor of this. The root cause for this rioting is hundreds of years of systemic oppression: redlining (now digital redlining in the digital age), racist banking policies (for a detailed analysis see ‘The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap‘ and ‘How The Other Side Banks‘, both by law Professor Mehrsa Baradaran), the school to prison pipeline, the CIA and Reagan’s ‘war on drugs‘ that flooded inner cities…
on “Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20” ↗