Most of the gap in wealth disparities between Blacks in the US and whites is in housing equity. One of the biggest issues on Obama's long list of burdens when he became president was the pending doom of the housing market. So then the big corporations got a bailout but what about families? Combine decades of discrimination by federal housing policy with a fatal explosion of the housing bubble and many would argue that government intervention (or lack thereof) is the sole reason for the gap in wealth. Perhaps reparation demands need to be reconstructed into real estate laws to reverse the racist policies that prevented Black investment in the first place. Ta-nehisi Coates stated in his narrative "The Case for Reparations" that something more than moral pressure calls America to reparations. It is the glaring reality that we cannot escape our history. Yvette Carnell poses opposing viewpoints below. articlesWant Reparations? How The Longest-Serving Member Of Congress Plans To Make Them Happen What the Economist Doesn't Get About Slavery BOOKS
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