Posted by strikeout26 on 1/11/2018 7:49:00 PM (view original):

Posted by tangplay on 1/11/2018 7:36:00 PM (view original):

Posted by strikeout26 on 1/11/2018 7:20:00 PM (view original):
Tang, do you know where school funding primarily comes from?

Property Taxes.

Good. Now, you do understand that local governments have different mileage rates and property values vary from district to district. This is why some schools have more available funds than others. It has nothing to do with race or discrimination.

Posted by cccp1014 on 1/11/2018 7:53:00 PM (view original):
Are you saying that my people are inherently smarter and wealthier?

Posted by tangplay on 1/11/2018 7:55:00 PM (view original):

Posted by cccp1014 on 1/11/2018 7:53:00 PM (view original):
Are you saying that my people are inherently smarter and wealthier?

Where did I say that? Jews have more money and succeed more than black people, yes, but I did not use that phrasing.

Posted by strikeout26 on 1/11/2018 7:55:00 PM (view original):
Of course, but that's a terrible argument. Other races are more than welcome to buy more expensive properties. There's nothing discriminatory about it, the only thing preventing other races from purchasing is means.

1. On September 24, the U.S. Justice Department announced a settlement with Hudson City Savings Bank for close to $33 million after an investigation found that it was avoiding doing mortgage business with African Americans and Latinos between 2009 and 2013. The Justice Department calls it the “largest residential mortgage redlining settlement in its history.” As U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman explained to Emily Badger for The Washington Post, “[i]f you lived in a majority-black or Hispanic neighborhood and you wanted to apply for a mortgage, Hudson City Savings Bank was not the place to go.” The bank serviced one of the largest housing markets in the nation, covering mortgages throughout New Jersey, New York, and even Philadelphia. But the bank went out of its way not to set up any branches in minority neighborhoods. As part of the settlement, Hudson City will have to open two full-service branches in non-white communities.

1. On September 10, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman settled with Evans Bank for $825,000 after discovering that the bank erased black neighborhoods from maps used for determining mortgage lending. According to Schneiderman, of the over 1,100 mortgage applications the bank received between 2009 and 2012, only four were from African Americans. The Buffalo News reports that other banks in the area could be flagged next for redlining.

1. In May, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a $200 million settlement with Associated Bank over redlining in Chicago and Milwaukee. The HUD complaint said that the bank denied mortgage loans to black and Latino applicants between 2008 and 2010. As in the Hudson City case, Associated Bank will have to open new branches in predominantly black and brown communities
2. Last year, the city of Miami brought lawsuits against Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Citigroup, alleging that the banks were steering black and Latino applicants towards high-interest, “predatory” loans. A federal judge struck those lawsuits down, saying the city lacked standing. A federal appeals reversed that decision, though, on September 2, saying that banks could have foreseen the “attendant harm” that resulted from the predatory lending when they resulted in large numbers of foreclosures throughout the city.
3. Los Angeles filed lawsuits against four banks last year—J. P. Morgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup—accusing them of both traditional redlining (denying loans to people of color), and also the “reverse redlining” of making predatory loans rain on black and brown communities. The city recently dropped the J. P. Morgan suit. The suits against Bank of America and Wells Fargo are on appeal, while the Citigroup case goes to trial next year. The city says these banks have been engaging in these practices since 2004. Further up the coast, the city of Oakland has also sued Wells Fargo, accusing it of reverse redlining as well.
4. On September 9, the National Fair Housing Alliance filed a discrimination complaint against RE/MAX real estate agents in Jackson, Mississippi. The Alliance sent fake couples out to shop for homes and found that the white testers were sent to predominantly white neighborhoods to view homes while black testers were rarely called out to view homes at all. A September 15 editorial in the The New York Times said the Alliance’s findings are indicative of a history of discrimination that has “taken an enormous toll on black wealth.”
5. The mayors of Jersey City and Newark are concerned that poor, minority neighborhoods haven’t been getting their share of fiber-optic quality broadband internet access. Verizon has a contract with the state of New Jersey to deliver this service to the cities. However, as Russell Brandom reports at The Verge, extraordinarily large numbers of households, mostly renters, in Newark and Jersey City have been waiving off rights to the fiber optic service. The mayors are now looking into whether Verizon might be deliberately contributing to the digital divide in the state. Seth Hahn of the Communication Workers of America union told Brandom that a lot of landlords were waived out of the service without their knowledge. Some have been calling it “FioS redlining”—a term that an Urban League director took issue with, claiming that it falsely conflates the Verizon issue with a real history of housing discrimination. It should be noted that Urban League collects healthy sums of funding from Verizon. Here’s a graph Brandom created that illustrates the disparities:

Posted by strikeout26 on 1/11/2018 7:58:00 PM (view original):
That's cool. My mom is from Boston. I believe she went to Acton-Boxborough HS. Is that a real place or did I just make a school up?

Posted by strikeout26 on 1/11/2018 7:55:00 PM (view original):
Of course, but that's a terrible argument. Other races are more than welcome to buy more expensive properties. There's nothing discriminatory about it, the only thing preventing other races from purchasing is means.

Posted by cccp1014 on 1/11/2018 7:56:00 PM (view original):

Posted by tangplay on 1/11/2018 7:55:00 PM (view original):

Posted by cccp1014 on 1/11/2018 7:53:00 PM (view original):
Are you saying that my people are inherently smarter and wealthier?

Where did I say that? Jews have more money and succeed more than black people, yes, but I did not use that phrasing.

Why do you think that is when you acknowledge there is serious anti semitism in the US?

Posted by cccp1014 on 1/11/2018 8:24:00 PM (view original):

Posted by strikeout26 on 1/11/2018 7:58:00 PM (view original):
That's cool. My mom is from Boston. I believe she went to Acton-Boxborough HS. Is that a real place or did I just make a school up?

That is REAL!!! LOL