re: Congressional Black Caucus pushes for reparations commission ... a vote is coming

This could be the match that lights the Powderkeg on this one.

Please put this in the 2020 platform Democrats. I think it should be a prominent issue in the debates for Biden to present to the nation at large.

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How is it possible that Japanesse Americans were able to recover post WWII?

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That's a weird non-sequitur. Reparations were paid to Japanese. Period. By a cross-section of taxpayers that wasn't equal to the taxpayers that were around when they were interned. Period.

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Liberals/Leftists believe that all banks didn't want to profit off the backs of black people because they were super racist. Does that make sense to you? Is it possible african americans were and remain less credit worthy therefore banks don't want to risk loss of principal on house notes? No way couldn't be, banks hate making money almost as much as they love discrimination right?

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That's a lot of cool talking points. The reality of the mid-century housing market is that blacks of equal (or better) creditworthiness were not granted access to federally-back/insured mortgages...due explicitly to federal redlining policies. That is to say - even if banks WANTED to lend, they couldn't.

There were some heroes, though. You should read the biography of Dempsey Travis.

Another riposte to this

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banks hate making money almost as much as they love discrimination right?

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construct is to remember that - into the 1970s - major sports programs did not allow blacks on their teams. That is to say, in basketball (BASKETBALL) and football, it seems clear that people were willing to cut off their nose to spite their face.

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I've looked into the effects it appears post Jim Crow homeownership rates started to fall. Can you explain?

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I'm not exactly sure what you're attempting to show with your chart. Please be more specific.

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We pay reparations under the compromise that we at the same time end welfare.

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And ANY and ALL previous welfare benefits (regardless of type) are deducted from the reparation payment.

I want my white privilege check from my ancestors profits from slavery then

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Alright frick it, we just need to keep fricking and fricking and fricking until we are all the same color

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Right, because people of the same race never hurt each other.

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The reality of the mid-century housing market is that blacks of equal (or better) creditworthiness were not granted access to federally-back/insured mortgages...due explicitly to federal redlining policies. That is to say - even if banks WANTED to lend, they couldn't.

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Reparation checks will do ZERO to fix that issue. Handing people a check today will not do anything to solve the issues that were created in the 1900's. Not one single thing.

I can actually get behind a bill that was truly fair.

-Reparations would have to be open to everyone
-Each applicant would have to register and meet a criteria that would include proof that the government enslaved you
-Any amounts owed would be reduced by any amount a you received from the government for any program that is non merit based (ie snap, welfare, Bailout money etc)
-You sign a waiver that you will stfu about being oppressed

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Reparations were paid to Japanese. Period.

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Honest question - who got paid? All Japanese? Did their descedents get paid? Or was it only Japanese that were actually held in the camps?

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That's a weird non-sequitur. Reparations were paid to Japanese. Period. By a cross-section of taxpayers that wasn't equal to the taxpayers that were around when they were interned. Period.

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So the disparities between Japanese Americans and African American household wealth are entirely driven by the direct reperations received for their enslavement in the '40s in the '90s?

Wiki

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The act granted each surviving internee about US$20,000 in compensation (or, $40,000 after inflation-adjustment in 2016 dollars), with payments beginning in 1990.

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So if that's your case do you want to quantify what the average person in poverty receives on an annual basis in perpetuity in inflation adjusted dollars? (This is obviously overly simplified because people typcially only live under the poverty line for a few months)

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due explicitly to federal redlining policies. That is to say - even if banks WANTED to lend, they couldn't.

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Refer to chart. Those rules were written out of law in 1968. How is it possible that homeownership rates fell preceding that date?

Y'all can keep pretending the systemic ghost is still real but all you're really doing is identifying where african americans have unequal outcomes with other cutltures that have been treated with the same prejudice and racism that a majority of immigrant families dealt with and overcame. But that's alright, keep fighting the good fight, I'm sure it will improve with just a little more money and a little less accountability