The firebrand host dove into the history of housing discrimination in the United States by detailing the noxious history of racial covenants in the South that prevented home sales to Blacks and how some of those bylaws exist to this day.
The idea was to make it easier for Americans to buy homes after the Great Depression, Oliver pointed out. The government would ensure a home loan, which would then relieve some pressure off the banks, which is how the modern home mortgage was born.
“When you take all of this together – the redlining, the block-busting, the steering, and not least, the federal government’s involvement, it all becomes clear the myth of white Americans prosperity, powered by ingenuity and self-reliance, leaves a lot out,” Oliver said.
“What you owe” …who owes? You want to use my taxes to make these payments? I didn’t vote for that, nor would I. I did nothing wrong, and I owe no one.
wildwillow65 What do I owe?
He and the rest of the politicians can start paying reparations from their own pockets if they're so eager to do so.
Someone should get him a tissue
So many replies refusing to see how whiteness has created generational wealth due to housing policies that the UNITED STATES Congress voted in, funded, and administered! It affects/affected all Black people, up to and including lack of finding education and medical care.
My moderation never touched John Oliver‘s ability to remove the partisan haze of Justification and reveal the sharp edges of bigotry and corruption. Good on you JohnOliver
Housing programs are not Reparations. And by what right does he have to decide what reparations looks like for Black people that trace back to US chattel slavery?
Black people don't need a white man to champion issues that affect them. Sometimes the best thing you can do to help is get the hell out of the way and stay there. This subject is not advanced through inflammatory monologues initiated in a unproductive & adversarial way.
Firstly, We aren’t even being honest about who benefited from slavery. That firstly was Britain, Spain, France, and the Netherlands. They above all benefited from slavery. The US doesn’t come into being until 1783. There was no country before then.
I love John. He should be in England lecturing them on reparations for all the shit the Brits extracted from third world cultures. When that's fixed he can take us on. Again, agree with him, just...
Wow. Now that's real pandering
Is he talking about the United States or Great Britain? 😉
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