Okie Doke, here we go. An explainer for White people who don’t understand why Black wealth didn’t grow with theirs.

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I had to live over there, you could live over here. My credit was better than yours, but the bank said no. The Federal Government had a policy about housing. That’s their job. They make policy and they had one that said “colored folks can’t get our great affordable housing deals, they for white people.” HUD, the federal department of Housing and Urban Development did that. What about the Chinese. The Vietnamese immigrant? Didn’t have it hard like Black folks? Why yes, you can choose a number for their difficulties, then imagine the number you can’t see because it is off the chart. Black Holes are big and invisible.

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