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Jeff Younker
Jul 12, 2016
So then tell me this: why is it that black people are poor in the first place?
Ian Black
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Why are they poor in the first place? Land ownership has typically been one of the ways that groups become wealthy over generations. Land ownership was systematically denied to black people in the US. The practice was called red-lining: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

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