African american Quote by Richard Rothstein

“For the first time in the history of America, New Deal policies made homeownership a real possibility for white families, but black families were…

— Matthew Desmond

“The core argument of this book is that African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class neighborhoods, and…

— Richard Rothstein

“From the 1930s through the 1960s, black people across the country were largely cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market through means both legal…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“In 1944, the G.I. Bill was adopted to support returning servicemen. The VA not only denied African Americans the mortgage subsidies to which they…

— Richard Rothstein

“Including the differential mortgage loan approval rates between Asian Americans and whites shows that the same methods to conclude that that blacks are discriminated…

— Thomas Sowell

If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.

— Barack Obama

“This is a historically black community,” said Lynn Hendy, president of the property owners association. “I’d like it to stay that way.”127”

— Jared Taylor

“I was not always a believer in reparations. I’d read TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson’s work on the subject in the late ’90s, which convinced…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic discrimination—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white applicants were…

— Thomas Sowell

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate…

— Malcolm X

“The FHA had adopted a system of maps that rated neighborhoods according to their perceived stability. On the maps, green areas, rated “A,” indicated…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates