NPR: "Some white Oregon homeowners are selling at a loss to Black and Indigenous buyers"

How many unarmed police are killed?

I won't quote all that.

If a realtor won't show a black person homes they are interested in, they should be firing their realtor.

The rest of it -- are you talking about current practices or historical? I'm not really interested in what happened during the Jim Crow era. If a black person can't get a mortgage today but meets the same requirements that a white person does, then something is terribly wrong in that industry.

If the black person and a white person are both declined because of bad credit, not meeting income, etc, then I'm not sure what you'd be asking the mortgage industry to do. Are credit scores racist? Are income requirements racist? Should there be a sliding scale based on race?

The article was published only two months ago. Surely you can see that.

Here is a very good primer on past and current ways that minorities are not getting equal access to home buying.

npr.org

Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership

Owning a home is a part of the American dream. It's also the key to building intergenerational wealth. But Black Americans continue to face discrimination in housing, including through higher costs.

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You’re overreacting just a tad, Mary.

Calm your tits, Stacy.

Too many people let what happened in the past define them. I'm Sicilian. The number of nations/nation-states/etc that subjugated my ancestors is hard to even count. Then into the 20th century, 50 years after slavery ended in the US, Sicily still hadbde facro slavery in the form of medieval style feudalism. When my ancestors came here they were denied jobs and thrown into Italian ghettos.

All of that was terrible for them and while my family's experiences is more recent than the slavery of anyone alive now I am not asking for reparations or letting it hold me down.

Some groups just love to be victims even though they are given every hand in life. I would have been handed scholarships everywhere had I been the descended of an American slave while I had to just rely on my own ability being the descendent of Sicilian slaves

One major cause of the real estate bubble that popped in 2008 was predatory lending to black and Hispanic people, who were often targeted because of their limited financial literacy. Some predatory loan officers referred to blacks as "mud people" and to subprime lending as "ghetto loans.”

I wonder how much crime rates will rise in the next few years

This article is mostly about the past. I'm sure things were terrible in 1939 but none of us can do anything about that now. I'm interested in what's going on today.

This one woman couldn't qualify because she had bad credit. I imagine that happens to people of all colors. She was able to fix it and buy a home -- awesome.

The article says:

"The Fair Housing Act of 1968 recognized segregationist practices like redlining to be unconstitutional. But the law only prohibited future, formalized discrimination rather than undoing the foundationally racist landscape on which homeownership in America was built."

How do we undo what they call "the foundationally racist landscape of homeownership in America"?

Apparently, you don’t understand that critical theory and postmodernism have Marxist roots. Critical race theory and queer theory were embraced by blm, and are both grounded in the assumption that we must upend our culture in the March towards utopia. Whether one endorses these ideas or not, it’s simply a fact that they spring from the same tree as Maoism.

Sure, Jan.

Being white is not an advantage… where everyone is white… As for blacks , their own ghetto culture is their own undoing in most ways these days… White trash has similar issues…

I don’t think slavery was an issue in Oregon, either… As for reparations… first pay back all the welfare money, food stamps, public education, police fire and health services… and be banned from all future benefits… Then talk reparations… if you were personally a slave… I have yet to hear blacks talking about giving back to the natives…

Millions of illegals crossing the border are happy to trade places with blacks…

I think identifying as black could become a profitable thing 🤣😂😵‍💫

You are as deluded as your namesake, Don Quixote. No one wants you sent to the Gulag as a class enemy. It might be nice if you took yourself to therapy. What are you even talking about?

Critical theory is not critical race theory. Critical race theory concerns the study of how race figures in the history of constitutional law. (Yes, you can find some critical race theorists going beyond that, but then that's no general truth about them). Critical theory refers to Frankfurt School researchers who were Jews fleeing the Nazis and who wrote Marxist but anti-Stalinist work that was anti-totalitarian. Good luck finding much direct connection to Black Lives Matter. And good luck finding any connection to revolution in critical theory, which was labelled Cafe Max (Horkheimer) for having nothing to do with any revolutionary action. Critical theory includes anti-communist figures such as Hannah Arendt. As for postmodernism, it too is influenced by many different thinkers, ranging from Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, some of them on the left, some Enlightenment or centrist thinkers, others on the right. Postmodernism has even been influential on conservatives, who like to use relativism and perspective- or value-dependence of reality as a shield (e.g. Karl Rove, you in the reality-based community). So, what exactly are you trying to say?

CRT and Critical Theory are related, but it’s funny to think any modern social movement is Marxist when they all get co-opted by market capitalism within a few weeks. Buy my BLM t shirt!

Rojo and Wejos need to re-price the SC memberships .Free for NA, $5 for hispanics and blacks, $400 for whites and Asians.

African blacks pay the normal price as we don't want to point out they are worse off there than the black people living here.

It's a good question.

You are implying this thread is toxic. I, on the other hand, am enjoying it immensely. In society nowadays, you rarely see the other point of view.

You seem to think having a debate is toxic. I view it as educational.

Some people think selling your house below market value is the dumbest thing ever. Others think it make sense. Here people are explaining why they think they do and I'm enjoying reading it as I drink a beer while everyone else in the family sleeps.

I think a big whole in American political debates nowadays is how few people realize that it's become a religion for many. People look for meaning in life. The decline in organized religion has been replaced with the rise in environmental and racial fanaticism.