Look you stupid shit. Banks were redlining. The courts said it was racist.
I understand why that drove you batshit crazy but banks had to decide on approving loans on the individual & not the race. Redlining was assigning loan risk based on neighborhoods, hint race.
All enforced by the government going back to the fifties.
Had the government simply stayed out of SOCIAL ENGINEERING, we'd have been light years ahead of where we are today regarding discrimination!
The discrimination was being enfornced through the law suits that included Obama'a firm & the DOJ.
So, you liked the social discrimination prior to the civil rights movement? The government should not have gotten involved? Is that what you are saying?
Discrimination was enforced by the government prior to the civil rights movement. Had government NOT enforced segregation, it would have dissolved decades before and without government intervention.
"The laws that enforced segregation in the south were the Jim Crow laws. The laws earned the name "Jim Crow" from a black character in the minstrel shows. States, such as Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, California and North Dakota, punished people if they associated with members of another race."
The laws did not allow intermarriage between different races. Businesses were expected to separate their white and black customers. White nurses were not allowed to work in places where blacks were hospitalized. Bus services had different waiting rooms and separate ticket windows for whites and other races. Typically, the laws prevented the association of the whites and people from other races in any way.
What Are the Laws That Enforced Segregation in the South?
An example would be my Mother's father. My Ol' Man was critically injured in the Battle of the Bulge and spent two years in a government hospital in Texas. My Mom moved back to Chicago from Camp Blanding (near Jacksonville). It was FROWNED ON to rent to a woman living alone with a child (ME). So my Grandfather bought an apartment building where my Mom with one kid and my Aunt (wife of Mothers brother also in the service) lived with three kids. Another tenant was Indian (now Native American) and another was Chinese. My grandfather made a sort of cottage industry out of renting to those others would not.
He did not rent to blacks, in any of the buildings he owned because it was not legal.
HAD it been legal, I have no question that he would have rented to blacks. As it was back then when we left Chicago in 1954 to live in South Miami (Cutler Ridge) I had never met a black person. The first one I met was our maid and another was a concrete worker who put in our pool.
Had this not been the law, folks would have merged much more easily and naturally.
Did you know that cemeteries were segregated?