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The beach property one was a real stunner and this happened to Black Americans way more than most realize.

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Some of his facts were pretty hard to watch.

@silverotter11 I live in the close suburb of a medium size city in Pennsylvania. My home was built in 1953. There is a clause, hidden in the deed, that specifically says property in this neighborhood can not be sold to non whites. This was after the war, to prevent returning black service members from using the GI bill to buy good housing. Just to show discrimination was not limited to blacks, the largest country clubs didn’t allow Jews to join until well into the 1980’s. And blacks were banned from public swimming pools until the late 1960’s or ‘70.

@Barnie2years I do believe if you are the home owner you can go and change that clause in your deed.
Yes Jews, Asians, Native Peoples were all excluded. The thing about the community pools that were build with tax payer dollars some were closed, drained and in some cases filled in when desegregation declared they were no longer exclusively for white people.
Yes rather than share with Black Americans some whites will deny their families cooling waters in the heat of summer. The work around was the building of private facilities/clubs.
I grew up in NJ, my mom's family came from St. Clair and every summer when I was a kid we'd spend 2 weeks at my aunt's house in Schuylkill Haven.
The Lancaster area is so pretty, I came thru there on 30 when i drove east to visit the family in the early 1980's.

@silverotter11 I'm familiar with St. Clair, drove through there on the way up to Dad's hometown, Shickshinny on 61. Coal country. And you're right, they did fill in pools and created private clubs. Or put pools in their back yards. Lancaster actually built a pool specifically for people of color on the east side of town, far enough out to make it inconvenient to get to. It's actually one of the few older public pools still around. Or they had to swim in the Conestoga River, which at the time before sewage treatment plants, was pretty toxic.

@Barnie2years My grandfather was a foreman at the coal mines back in the 1930's and 1940's. He and grandma had 8 kids, my mom was the youngest. I never knew my grandparents, they passed when we (my twin and I) were about 3 years old. I have pictures of us sitting on Grampa's lap in the parlor of their house in St Clair. As a foreman my relatives were not as hard hit when the market crashed and the depression took hold of the country but there was shortages and then rationing and I learned the lessions of penny pinching from my mom. My Aunt Ida was even better at it - LOL. But the generational wealth is no joke! My Aunt did not have children and when she passed there were only 2 sisters left, my mom and Aunt Florence so her estate passed to my parents which added to the wealth of my parents which passed to us 3 when mom passed. Now, it was no great amount but it made it possible for my kid sister to buy a house and stop renting. I paid off my mortgage and so did my twin.
That so many especially returning WWII non white veterans could not benefit is beyond disgusting. It's time to stop talking and studying reparations and just fucking do it!! IMHO

Ah, that is why I can't get it. Whenever I have seen an Oliver show I have received a copyright infringement notice.

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@Becca007 Hi! I'm more than double your age and live nearly 3000 miles north of you.

I think there is some workaround. Worth trying to find it.

@Barnie2years how about just telling us what it is about or giving us another link to different media.

@FrayedBear [en.m.wikipedia.org]

@Barnie2years thanks but what is the featured show about & why does other media not report it?

Glad someone got back to ya on this. Making loans available but only to whites and telling developers there must be clauses on the deeds that state the property can not be sold to non whites.
I really wish you could view this one. There is a part where a journalist (white guy) from the town of Linden, NJ interviews the mayor and it is clear they are not comfortable discussing the discrimination but that it's time to move on.
It is about how generational wealth has been denied to Black Americans and the effect that has had.
John Oliver is a comedian but uses biting humor and extensive fact checking to make his point and educate.
As to the media, well white folk do not want to have people blatantly aware of just how big a bunch of assholes they really are.

I suspect there was similar stuff concerning the aboriginies in Australia.

@silverotter11 Far worse. Citicorp, an American bank, used to make railways loans to railway fettlers, white, black, coffee, green or yellow at 27%pa. Fettlers tended to have jobs for life because no one else wanted the work particularly if in remote areas.

@FrayedBear Loan sharks still charge that.

@rogerbenham are you inferring that Citibank is a loan shark? LMAO