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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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"Looting."
Few terms have been used to delegitimize the anger and frustration coming out of Baltimore so readily. When a small group of dissidents marked the otherwise peaceful protests last week by destroying property and stealing from stores, the media quickly shifted its focus from 25-year-old Freddie Gray's murder to whether "rioting" and "looting" was the right response.
To be clear, there's no "right response" to police disproportionately killing black people โ other than for police to stop disproportionately killing black people. But if we're going to talk about theft, we really need to talk about the theft that's been plaguing Baltimore for years: the millions of dollars stolen from black home buyers by large financial institutions.
In 2012, Wells Fargo Bank โ "the nation's largest residential home mortgage originator," according to the Huffington Post โ agreed to a $175 million settlement after the Justice Department accused it of discriminating against qualified black and Hispanic loan borrowers between 2004 and 2009.
Allegations include that the bank overcharged at least 34,000 borrowers in 36 states for home loans because of their race. It also allegedly steered black and Hispanic buyers toward high-interest subprime mortgages โ typically reserved for borrowers with poor credit to offset the bank's risk in lending them money โ regardless of whether they were credit-worthy or not......continued
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