“CBS This Morning” tackled the history of housing discrimination and redlining in this segment. This history should be common knowledge in the U.S., but like so much of the history of oppression, exclusion, and exploitation, it has been whitewashed, erased, and ignored. It’s not hard to find, too complicated to understand, or difficult to explain. The only reason it hasn’t always been taught is that it makes certain people look bad. It is good that mainstream media is covering this and reminding the rest of the nation about how oppressive acts like this have reverberating and compounding effects that last until the current day. It was a misstatement when they claimed this was the beginning of the wealth gap, but it is a huge piece. • The obvious answer to this history is reparations. It’s not hard to come up with this answer, but when certain people think about how much it might cost them personally, their minds become incredibly creative in finding complications and avoiding the obvious. If I’m in charge of the rules of the game (the laws and policies of this nation,) and I make them unfair in my favor, leading to me having more wealth and you having less, it’s clear what needs to happen. If the game is going to be fair moving forward, I need to give you the wealth I’ve unfairly accumulated. Then the game can proceed fairly. The same needs to happen in this nation. • #PushingBlack #PushingBlackNews #EmbraceYourself #BlackMedia #BlackNews #Redlining #HousingDiscrimination #Racism #Reparations #HR40 #MyMelaninIsBeautiful #MelanatedAndProud #BlackAndProud #UnapologeticallyMe #LiveCreatively #killeverygram michaellittlle The hate is crazy atkinsjanice They always want to study the situation when it comes to FBA. America just accepted millions of immigrants who will be given free housing & schooling, be tax exempted without a study being conducted. I call BS https://www.whytheracecardisplayed.com/
Brian (Waterhead Bo) Bennett So who was the biggest black kingpin of all time? Just how do you measure that? Money, volume of dope, power, cultural impact? Perhaps it was Frank Matthews… you can learn more about him in my documentary “The Frank Matthews Story” link. But in terms of documented transactions that we know about for sure, who was convicted in court: One man stands alone. Brian “Waterhead Bo” Bennett. Bennett and his Colombian Partner, Mario Villabona, were eventually convicted of moving nearly l5 thousand kilos that they talked about on certain wiretaps between December of 1987 and November of 1988. Some of the loads were as large as 1000 kilos and cheaper than $9,000 dollars each wholesale. That’s 1500 keys a month for nearly a year. And that’s just on the wiretapped phones. Who knows how much he really sold in total. Claims are made about this one and that one selling more, but 15,000 keys sold for sure is the most we know about for any black dealer. Waterhead B...
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