“98 percent of the loans the Federal Housing Administration insured from 1934 to 1962 went to white Americans, locking nearly all black Americans out of the government program credited with building the modern (white) middle class.”
“Black Americans had already lost the largest share of their wealth of all racial groups as a result of the last recession and have struggled the most to recover. They are the only racial group whose household median income is less than it was in 2000”
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“A truly great country does not ignore or excuse its sins. It confronts them and then works to make them right. It is time for [the United States] to pay its debt. It is time for reparations.”
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