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I could very well be wrong, but I don't think this is quite accurate:

> Black people were locked into specific neighborhoods, and were generally not allowed to own their homes and instead locked into rapacious "contracts" for their houses

Redlining meant certain areas were deemed hazardous to investment. Maybe the "deeming" was accurate; maybe it wasn't. It certainly made loans more difficult for anyone in a redlined area (of any race).

But it didn't mean Black people weren't allowed to own homes. Many millions did and do.

My parents moved to the United States nearly penniless from India. I am very privileged thanks to them; they were not privileged, especially not when they first arrived. All of the arguments about generational wealth are compelling at first exposure, but they ignore the control group: Poor as dirt, strange-smelling, English-deprived immigrants like my parents.

I don't think it's healthy to blame white people for depriving an area of themselves. Proximity to white people isn't a human right.



The other side of redlining were racial covenants that quite literally made it impossible to buy certain houses by black people.

This was taken to the US Supreme Court.


> Proximity to white people isn't a human right.

This is literally a defense of segregation.




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