Housing Discrimination: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- John Oliver breaks down the long history of housing discrimination in the U.S., the damage it’s done, and, crucially, what we can do about it.
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“I’m the thing that was devaluing my house”… that’s downright heartbreaking.
Yes!
Ain't it though? And it's the reality of millions of Black Americans in 2021.
That made me so sad and angry!!!!
I wish John and the show would let things like that sink in, rather than try to make a joke right after… yes comedic relief is very important in hard stories like this but slow down sometimes, right?
When my wife and I were selling our last home, we took down all family pictures. We also let our realtor be present when the appraiser came to our home instead of us. We already knew from hearing things like this and we weren’t going to take any chances.
"Pardon me, Angie. These are not my words."
Oh, god bless this woman.
“I said hell I’m gonna join them”. Truly a woman ahead of her times
Can we move her into the whitehouse that year and see if today looks different.
@@williammckenzie6865 exactly. It's why I hate the whole "oh he comes from a different generation, you can't blame him for being incredibly racist". No, people knew what racism was back then. They knew the implications, they chose to act this way. Was it harder to be an ally and easier to just go along with it? Yeah, doesn't make it right, just means you value your comfort over the humanity of others
@@bluecanine3374 Holy Cow!!! Nicely said! I am 56 yr old. And your right on the money. I was a teen in the '70's and 80's. It's how we treated many older members of our family. Pretend it had something to do with their drinking or era they grew up. It wasn't until later that I understood how wrong that was. And I never would have put it into words as well as you have.
@@bluecanine3374 This^
The woman who said ".. I realized, I was the thing that devalued my house..", That was absolutely heartbreaking.
It's bloody horrible. I am tearing up. :/
What sucks is that current black home owners who are in the process of selling have to remove all photos, etc. - and only their realtors are there when the house shows - to sell their homes for a good price; this is akin to everything she said.
What the hell... I love when we try to say our country isn't racist. There's sooooo many examples of blatant and overt racism that was built into the construction of our neighborhoods, jobs, and valuations of property. The worst people here? The ones calling me un-American for saying such things. We have a disgusting past that we shouldn't ignore, and we have to continue to try and do better in the future. Otherwise, let the leaders just come out and admit what they want so everyone that isn't in on that plan can leave and let the "whites only" supremacy have their country and let it burn. Gross that we have done what we did over and over and over the last 400+ years.
They need to stop turning neighborhoods into hoods.
@@robm2681 You need to stop being racist.
If that town historian was genuinely that shocked, he wasn't a very good historian.
Signed,
Another historian
💯
Or knew and was in utter denial
I want to say that's harsh but it's also kind of true
Future generations will continue to be shocked…Modern state governments are making a huge push to prevent historians from teaching the reality of the systemic racism that continues to pervade our culture.
Yeah, I was a history buff growing up and in my early 20s. It wasn't until I got in college and majoring in history that I saw the seemy underside to our history. For example, the Tulsa massacre. Never heard of it before college. There is a coterie of people that have been working really hard to bury what happened. I remember a photo I saw of a lynching I found researching another event. In this case, pretty much the entirety of this small Tennessee town had turned out to murder these two black boys, torturing them horribly beforehand. This pic must have had several hundred whites underneath the hanging tree, most smiling, proud of what they did. It sickened me to know that some of those people were still alive, never having faced the slightest consequence for their crime.
I just want to say thank you to HBO and LWT for making these available on UA-cam for free.
18~ minutes? in he almost talked about the same problem's with LGBTQ 🏳🌈rights and housing discrimination as it to is a problem and looking back the federal government officials ceased ownership and rights from jew's/Mormon's with bi-female/polygamy ( also transgender is a ruff times as some see it as being gay/homosexuality ) marriage's and also swinger's-fidelity-married and gay marriage ect.
not saying afro American/others are less important just disappointed that there's not much in the video coverage on the other that is still a major problem
my county/city USA 🇺🇸 has by-laws that prohibit 2 or more unrelated/married people living together ( or mail being delivered and packages 📦ect ) or there kids staying there/with-them for the weekend or longer ( 12 hours maximum time limit or the city and cop's get called ect ) ect. so gay marriage rights isn't being covered or M+M+M or F+F+F or mf+mf marriages ( 5 linked marriage licenses and full benefits should be covered anything less is bad law, ie Edmonds act it's bad 🤦🏻♂ ) are illegal in this city just on zoning, yes i don't want slum lords ( my uncle/dad's-side is one and or is okay trying to be 1, lucky for the most part there's laws against it ) like ie extreme-example 20 adults living under one 3k-ft 🏡 in not a marriage/relationship but im not okay with being homophobic or racist , also not in favour of a house/block being used for a hotel/resorts room's when it's not setup for it and not zoned for it ect
And MAGATS and my mother in law still insist this isn’t true and systemic racism doesn’t exist.
I know because she tried to correct our daughter, and my husband and blamed me for it.
A couple of days later, it was all my fault for making their son and our daughter know that. “That’s not true.”
Well, I did try to teach a wee bit of history, but neither have talked to us since.
Yes. My father in law is an evangelical preacher man.
It’s SAD.
It should be considered public service..
@@RendaJaneoouuf you poor thing!😅
When he said “don’t just let the audio of this play in the background while you’re working. Click back on the UA-cam tab and look at me” I almost froze. How did you know John? 😆
oh dam! yeah--- I always am at work when I watch this so... felt this comment-
How dare he call us out like this 🤣
And then I did switch back to UA-cam and totally agree! That tree is HOT!
I was too distracted by work to catch that sentence lol
Gawd, I'm getting back there before he says it!!!
One my college professors went into detail about redlining. He even pulled out an old map of our city that was redlined and compared to what are considered "bad areas" it was almost exactly identical. It absolutely blew my mind.
I got cold chills reading this and imagining the maps.
The redlines so accurately predicted 2020...truly amazing insight.
@@aubreyalbanese4440 i got chills the first time I was doing research for a project in high school, and I looked at a map of areas most affected by a hurricane, and then a map of wealth in the region, and then a map of racial segregation, and they were the same map down to so many little cracks and bumps. And thats when I truly realized how little progress on racial equality this country has made. Despite the fact that we had a black president, and despite the fact that we had passed the civil right act in the 60's, which was something they had focused on so heavily in my education as a child.
It’s funny like someone else said in an earlier post, when you live it, it’s not surprising it’s expected. The historical and present lived experiences of Black Americans result in expected discrimination. Same land different expectations.
Education in action! That's a good professor!
"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there." MALCOLM X
How are we supposed to know what "the knife" is if you won't tell us? You can't be offended by the concept of everything without saying why it offended you "syrup is racist how it is how it is how it is how is it racist it is how"
@@filmtheory783 I think you are conflating the pc movement with my message. when Malcolm x made this statement he clearly and repeatedly described what the knife is and in some cases even described at as literal violence leaving no room for imagination what the knife is and who is doing the stabbing. Malcolm x also famously said a white liberal is the most dangerous white person, paraphrasing here. I quoted the statement in terms of racial discrimination in housing in usa which no liberal or conservative can deny and the anology was meant to highlight that the racist American establishments (mainly the banking liberals) still have the knife in the people's back and not only are they pulling it out but pressing harder, the only difference is they use modern pc means to achieve this. One more note, Americans have to realise that seeing the world out the lens of western right left wing politics is very subjective and lacks a world perspective, from a world perspective the most conservative american is just another liberal leftist pc zombie, comparatively to the average human world wide. so i encourage you to have a more objective outlook in life and not bring your pitty western left right wing politics into places where it doesn't matter and in reality is just pitty rivalary designed to brainwash Americans that they have democracy and that western govs dont actually just work for corporations, and distract the ppl from the fact that the western bankers which govs are slaves to are giving China more money in order to destroy Abrahamic monotheism. peace salam and happy truth seeking
@@filmtheory783 Ah, yes, because you don't have the arbiter of (most of) all human knowledge sitting right within arm's reach as you're reading this that you cannot _possibly_ search through.
...Snark aside, Aunt Jemima is a racist character due to a long, storied history- primarily because (and I'm quoting an NBC article here): "The character of Aunt Jemima is an invitation to white people to indulge in a fantasy of enslaved people - and by extension, all of Black America - as submissive, self-effacing, loyal, pacified and pacifying. It positions Black people as boxed in, prepackaged and ready to satisfy; it’s the problem of all consumption, only laced with racial overtones."
It's part of a bigger issue, but- not to mention, the original Aunt Jemima was based off a woman named Nancy Green, and Nancy was enslaved. Nancy had her appearance taken and corrupted for use in pancake mix and, later on, made into a toy for white antebellum children to play with.
Aunt Jemima's history is absolutely racist to its core, but that's not the point here. The point is that there has been deep, economic and emotional harm wrought upon Black Americans from the day they were forcefully brought to America. That is the knife. That from the moment Black Americans were brought to America as *property,* and not *_people,_* it has inflicted a deep wound that the people in power, our government, still refuse to fully accept.
The first three minutes of this video show a black family getting land worth 20 million dollars stolen from them by a local government after the KKK burned a cross on their property and you’re asking what the knife is?
The effects of systemic racism have conspired to keep African-Americans as economically, socially, and politically marginalized as possible. White America as a whole has refused time and again to make systemic changes to fix this. This is what Malcolm X meant by not acknowledging the knife.
In his view (and my own), pulling out the knife (making changes to the racist system to make POC’s not marginalized) is only half the battle. POC’s and especially African-Americans would still be at a disadvantage compared to white Americans because their ancestors had lived under those racist systems.
Going back to the family I mentioned in the beginning of this comment, pulling out the knife would be making sure that something like that could never happen again. It is not enough because the family in the present day would still feel the affects of the theft. Only by either returning the land or paying the 20 million dollars would the family achieve justice for past actions. Anything less would not be healing the wound because those that committed the theft, in this case the state, would still be benefitting from it at the expense of every member of that family who should have benefited from it.
@@filmtheory783 "How are we supposed to know what "the knife" is if you won't tell us?"
Apparently it's worse than not admitting. It is actively trying to convince everyone that the knife...is actually syrup.
"Don't just let the audio of this play in the background while you're working, click back on the UA-cam tab and look at me" really caught me off guard lmaooo
Felt so much like he was calling me out lol
I had to look up from my phone in shame lol. Was worth it. That tree can indeed, get it lol.
Hey I had Digimon stuff to do okay, I mean it's not as important as what John was talking about but still it's fun.
Stop reading all of those comments and look at me 🤣🤣🤣
I had to go back! He got me!
If my family had $20m worth of land taken from them, and decades later people thought that the way to make up for it would be to spend $350k on things like a plaque _detailing_ the story of how they ripped my family off, I'd be burning some shit to the ground. _Believe it._
I totally understand the anger there. Those (white) people think it's perfectly fine to just throw them a bone and pretend that'll be that then. What on Earth is that plaque gonna do for them ?!
Yeeeeeeees!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
But the land wasn’t worth $20 mil when it was taken. It was not the rich beach enclave it is now. 30 land owners had their properties taken by eminent domain. Only 6 were black. So the white owners should get their land back too?
@@ninadaly7639 I hope you are joking. Even if the land wasn't worth $20m then, it is now. If that land wasnt stolen, that BLACK family should have been able to gain from that generational wealth. Thats just basic common sense. I CANT believe that you are focusing on the white families when black people have had their wealth literally taken from them since we were brought here. You had to basically iignore ALL of what the original message was. People like YOU keep America down.
@@brittanymatthews6962 But if white people had their land taken by eminent domain at the same time too, why shouldn’t they also be compensated by the County. Their land is likely worth $20+ million as well. How are you justifying their exclusion? Why aren’t they entitled to compensation too? Injustice is injustice. Of course, one could argue that had the taking not occurred 100 years ago, the land might not have increased in value to the extent it has, right? How could anyone know? 100 years of not paying property taxes, not maintaining or utilizing the land and now the government gives it back to the family to sell and divide the proceeds? For doing……well….. nothing? What’s next? If a black family wanted to buy a house before the Fair Housing act came into play in 1968 and was denied a mortgage, should they now be given the property they wanted to buy but were denied? That would be impossible not to mention ridiculous. I thought being treated “equally” was the goal? How is giving one family $20 mil they did not earn going to help alleviate “systemic racism?” Besides which, I hate to tell you this, but if we keep
Allowing the handful of billionaires in this country, several of whom are black, to keep hoarding money you can kiss generational wealth for everyone else goodbye. “Generational wealth” is not a right or an entitlement it’s an economic condition that is disappearing for ALL OF US. I’m afraid it’s pretty much a moot issue as 75% of the people in this country are living paycheck to paycheck. White people can’t give you what they don’t have. Shouldn’t we be standing together as Americans against the money hoarders who will end democracy if they amass enough because they will own and therefore control everything? If that happens, no one is going to give a rats ass what anyone wants.
My dad was a black police officer. I remember being really young, like 4, and my mom, who was white, crying in the car one day because we got turned away from buying a house in a nice neighborhood because my dad was black. My mom was just so shocked and upset, and my dad, who was driving, felt so bad for her, but he wasn't really angry or upset, it was just something he was used to at that point. That was one of my earliest memories, and I wish it wasn't, but at least my dad got a little leeway, being a cop. I can't imagine the memories other black and mixed kids have in the back of their heads.
@@MrBigsteve518 US? overpopulated? please wait a minute as europe and most of the rest of the world has a good laugh
you have a country that could contain europe with less than half of the population - heck germany alone has a quarter of the US population... at 1/30th of the land area
the lack of housing isnt a matter of population - its a matter of wealth distribution... when 99% of the wealth is in the hand of 1% of the people... you probably should not be surprised that the 1% dont care about a lot of the other 99% not being able to have food, shelter and healthcare
@@MrBigsteve518 immigration has historically benefited nations in many different ways
what is the point of the almost religious worship of the founding politicians of the US? they werent some super enlightened wizards that could make perfect laws... they were just the regular flawed product of their times, and plenty of them very incredibly racist - and their views are pretty much irelevant to current affairs
oh and "The jobs were sent to Mexico and China" - yeah no... the problem in the us isnt that there are no jobs - its that most jobs arent paid a wage you can live off
and trade zones without tarriffs are to your advantage - it means that its cheap to import materials, so that end products tend to be cheaper for the end consumer
there are no marxist forces working to destroy the us -
first off...there arent any relevant powers that are actually marxist
second the US doesnt need help destroying itself - capitalism and the dismantling of educational systems by your elected right extremists does a fine job on its own
mind you i doubt you will care about anything i said - you sound so far down the conspiracy hole that youve left reality far far behind
Now if we could extend that treatment to the rest of police, we might be on to something
@@MrBigsteve518 there are more than 15 million vacant homes in the US and around 600,000 homeless people. There aren't enough total homes for every person in the US to have one, but I don't think we are even close to being overpopulated, especially compared to the amount of land in America that is untouched.
@@SharienGaming We will have to keep deforesting for more grazing/farmland/lumber for houses if our population continues to expand which it is doing mainly due to immigration since U.S. birth rates have only been at replacement levels for decades.
Two and a half months after John talked about it, Manhattan Beach finally returned "Bruce's Beach" to it's rightful owner
Oh, so it was returned to the Native Americans who lived and worked on that beach for several millennia before occupation? :). They should get a sign at least now yeah? :)
Thanks for telling us.
Thanks for the update, I hope they get their money they're owed too.
@@jaegrant6441 J. flippin'..C..
@@jaegrant6441 as an Indigenous person, fuckin THANK YOU for acknowledging who "rightfully" "owns" the land. And we're not assholes, we've historically always aligned with Black people, so I'm very positive the Indigenous people in question would gladly share the land with Bruce and his family.
Man, I cried a little when Carlette said "I'm the thing that is devaluing this house." :( 21:20
Me too.
that's just brutal, nobody should have to live through this
Ehhh maybe because they got skin in the game? Or at least assume they have?
@@Chris-rg6nm Preach!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
@@Chris-rg6nm We all sadly know why. America has a long long very long way to go.
"Hey, sorry not sorry we took your ancestor's land... uhh, here's $350k, but we're not giving it to you...
Look at the sign, though!"
They ARE planning on giving the land back. Didn't you watch the rest?
@@pjv9361 the County is planning on giving it back, the city council only put 350k towards art
@@pjv9361 but will they give back the land they stole from the nativ amaricans?
@@gigantomato Native americans had no concept of land ownership.
@@franklinnartz1381 Might as well deprive someone of oxygen and then say "It's okay, he had no concept of oxygen ownership".
I just want to thank John and his team for the amazing work they are doing. Not many people even want to address the issues they do, let alone so in depth and easy to understand.
In case nobody knows, or hasn’t gone to look it up yet… THE BRUCES GOT THEIR BEACH BACK! In July, 2022 the county finally returned it to the family, and that shit is dope to see. Now, we just need to do it a few million more times 😅
wonderfull =D
Yeah, for the native Americans.
👍
Awesome!
explain yourself you want to kick people out of home they own for people of color and white people can be homeless
Schools in Texas have never equalized the funding for education, even though a federal judge ordered them to when I was in elementary school. I'm now 51.
Blue EYES matter
It really explains why there are now so many magnet programs for schools in low-income neighborhoods, trying to attract ANY additional funding.
@@emjay2045 nah, some black people have blue eyes. They don't matter.
Many white people have brown/green eyes. I have grey eyes.
It's still just size that matters. Having people in certain positions in government... In the police, as a landlord...
I wish it were just blue eyes, some contact lenses would have solved a lot for many (albeit still a wrong solution).
I'm sorry. I live in Texas, too and you actually expect the government to do the right thing? Has that actually EVER happened unless it made them money somehow. Most of them need to be put in jail. Like our last Governor who became a millionaire using his inside information on land deals. He should have been put in jail; instead he ran for president. Every time I vote I wonder why I even bother.
@@AlexFenrirGochad yah I was actually in a magnet program and this school was in a poor black neighborhood where a lot of my family lived. Now I know why they would want to attract white families to the school to get more funding.
One of things I love about John Oliver is that he educates me. I think I know what is going on in the world around me, and then John spends 11 gut-wrenching minutes dismantling your knowledge and belief system. It's a humbling experience and it shines a light in all the right places.
Ron Mueller ..ha ha "11 gut-wrenching minutes"
I submit you're not any more educated if you're listening to John Oliver.
Yea bro it’s called brain washing
@@jschuler53 HAHA and I mean it as a compliment.I truly enjoy his comedy and exposing a lot of broken systems that exist
Educate LMAO
“I’m the thing devaluing my house”. Real tears.
Lol
I'm curious what these appraisals looked like. Appraisals all need evidence to back up their opinion.
The laughter @@despain8726 ? 👀
Only a Clansman would.. 🤔
@@jashanestone Only a Nazi would think that only a klansman would laugh.
They definitely were real...so do you want real tears like the survivors from the 1921 Tulsa massacre showed...or the family of Emmitt Tills?
As others have said, Rose proves that the 'they're from an older generation' argument is nonsense. Rose seems like such a sweet woman.
Indeed
She looks a lot like my grandma, and honestly seems to act like her too. I have the greatest grandparents that have ever existed.
Rose, opened the book and read it. Not judging it by the cover.
Something we all need to do a little bit more.
@@Angry5704 congrats! Make sure you cherish every moment you spend with them and get their recipes (Grandmas always have the best recipes. If you have those it will help you get through the inevitable grief 🙏)
it does not tho. Yes it shows that this argument is not just a get-out-of-jail card one can hide behind. Bad things were bad even before, but circumstances matter a LOT.
Well ain't that a comfortable approach to history, Mitch; You're allowed to invoke victories of the past you weren't involved in achieving while at the same time dodging responsibility for fixing the consequences of past mistakes by argueing you weren't involved in making them.
Evil little 🐢 man
It's easy to blame Mitch, but he's a mouthpiece for every Republican in his caucus. And at least under Obama, he was the de facto head of the Republican party. This problem is bigger than a turtle made of melted wax.
He did a good job of revealing the problematic disconnect that happens when people talk about reparations though. John was talking about repairing something that was broken, while Mitch was talking about punishing those who practiced slavery.
@@brettlovell8761
Exactly, Mitch isn't the cause of the problem, he's one of its many consequences.
@@chrisjohnson8976 I try and compare it to paying for a natural disaster or paying for firefighters. It's fixing not punishing.
Also, African Americans paid taxes and were denied the benefits of those taxes.
"If you stick a knife in my back 9 in and pull it out 6 in, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They won’t even admit the knife is there" - Malcolm X
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Great analogy!
✊🏽🎅🏽
Uh, so, you think getting the knife out is not progress? Okay, leave in there then.
@@TDrudley you got them there, congrats!
"Don't just let the audio of this play in another tab while you're working." Don't call me out like this, John.
😂 I was finishing a Grisham novel
I do that allll the time but things like this distract me too much.
RiGhT?! I was at that moment looking up other things while listening. It was so eerie when he suddenly sounded like he was getting on my case for it! ;D
@@NoraDiniro1of7 i missed that statement entirely... divided attention. Not new info but im glad it's getting a great forum.
Hey. It's called multitasking.
My dad bought our house in the 70s in a predominantly black neighborhood when he had almost no money. People around him said, “You don’t want to move in that neighborhood with THOSE PEOPLE.” My dad simply said, “ hey. If they’re giving away houses, I’m getting in line.” We loved our neighbors growing up.
Now that house is probably worth 10 times as much
So glad John mentioned Long Island in this piece. As someone who is a black person that grew up there, it is one of the most divided places ive ever seen in the state of New York.
I grew up in predominantly white Town on LI, I remember when I was around 12 and went to middle school I was shocked that on the otherside of the road across from my middle school it wasn't apart of my school district, it was another district entirely. The other side of the street didn't look that much different except for one motel that was kinda sketchy. For the life of me I never could figure out why the other side wasn't in my district. That was until my HS coach told me that in the 60s during a school board vote they decided to snip that section out of our school district because the resident over there were about 50% black. LI is one of the most racially segregated places in the northeast. Few towns are diverse most are one race or ethnicity whatever those may be. My grandmother told me that even as recent as the 80s realtors would get blacklisted by entire communities if they ever sold a house to a black family.
@@clevernamegotban1752 Lol I think we lived on the same street
It's pretty similar in most major suburbs from Atlanta to Boston and Chicago to Houston
If I'm not mistaken, school segregation is actually the worst in New York City
I love how LWT uploads these and doesn't bleep cuss words so UA-cam won't put advertisements on these videos. THANK YOU LWT AND JOHN OLIVER
Ohhh
@Cara Jada wtf lmao watchgirls18!?!?!?!
just that little 'pardon me angie, these are not my words' makes mrs. Mason fuckin OG
@@mikemann1960 WHAT
@@mikemann1960 yea bro are you h i g h
That woman needs to be in the senate
@@mikemann1960 what the fuck did I just read?
@@mikemann1960 *A smirk glistens across Mikes's face* Now the world will know how smart I am.
I love that one woman's response when people tried to fearmonger her out of her home. "Hell, I'm gonna join 'em". That's nails, that is. Love it.
"Hell I'm gonna join them!" Hell yes Mrs. Rose Mason. Hell yes.
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That woman's comment made my day!!
Loved it 😂😂😂
I like Mrs. Rose Mason very much
Aboslute madlad and god damn hero
Mrs. Rose was so chill. I know it was a different time 50+ years ago, but her apologizing to the one black woman next to her for what she was quoting was sweet.
Lmlppn bbb
Love that clipped, replayed it, just that clip.
Yeah, I liked that too. She didn't shy away from saying it, but she made damn sure to point out that she was quoting an asshole, and she respected her friend.
That's the mature, civilized way to handle that word, I think. The way we're doing it today, where some people aren't allowed to say it under any circumstances, while other people are trying to reclaim it and make it cool...? I don't think it's working, and I think it may be doing more harm than good.
@@austenhead5303 it is. And even though she has her own issues, it is what Rowling was getting at with Voldemort. Not a great word and shouldn’t go around using it all the time but straight up banning people from it? That’s censorship and it’s own form of wrong. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
@@austenhead5303
🤦🏿♂️ You were 🤏🏿 close.
Respect to Rose and Ange for standing their ground
thank you civil rights kishibe
They got married once it became legal for them to do so...
Are they alive?, it would be great an interview.
@@davidhollenshead4892 don´t make it somethink disgusting
@@ThelastArchdemon47 how is it disgusting if they DID marry?
This man is a treasure. The best thing about UA-cam is you can get direct and concise facts from people who do the research.
Whoever is in charge of the graphics is a genius. There’s a silhouette of a face in that key
Their graphics team is awesome, 1000% they don’t get enough credit
Agreed. As a small graphics artist myself, I greatly admire their work.
Wait that was a key!?!?
Nice catch, wow.
I would've never saw it except for a crack on my screen that rounded out the head
Just imagine all those African-American soldiers fighting in WWII, dying to fight the most horrible manifestation of institutionalized racism and discrimination. And after all that they come home to realize that their own government is (still) just a different shade of the same evil.
and this STILL perpetuates thru-out the armed forces today, as all of the fore-mentioned problems/tricks exist today.
Not to mention they were segregated and treated abysmally whilst fighting by their own peers. A good number of them just stayed in Europe. I can’t say that I blame them.
Remember when Vietnam vets came home and got spit on? You are right. It is a different shade of the same evil.
An evil that the nazis literally took notes from.
Pretty heart breaking!
I have been watching last week tonight for a few years now, and I personally believe that this the best episode yet. They bring up a lot of information that, as someone who considers himself well educated, is very new and interesting. They also balance the cold hard truth with very good comedy. They did an exceptional job in not sugar coating the truth with a lot of fluff to keep the viewers from getting scared. I’m very happy with the way that this episode turned out. Keep it up John and all of the behind the scene writers who made the script for this episode possible. You all did an amazing job and deserve the recognition for what you have created this week.
I wonder what it is like to have your wealth artificially inflated that way by the government? While telling others about hard work, perseverance, and freedom (within the context of the American Dream) being the true deciders in one's life.
It’s like being born on second and scoring, then telling people who can’t afford a ticket they lost the game.
It's like being raised by parents who espouse the virtues of hard work and who either aren't aware of, or don't mention the help they got. It's like going to school every day and reciting the pledge of allegance, reaffirming that america is all about liberty and justice, so there can't be any systemic inequality going on. It's like being told that anyone who doesn't make it in america just isn't trying hard enough. Then the worst part is finding out that those were all lies to make us feel better about the crimes of our ancestors. Or maybe the worst part is finding out that there is nothing you can individually do to alter the momentum of several generations worth of nationilized self delusion. I'm glad that people like John are putting this information into the mainstream, but I get depressed whenever I think of how resistant some people (my parents in particular) are to this sort of unflattering information.
not really people still have it hard with their wealth being inflated by the government either way
@@chrisjohnson8976 Spot On!
@@Cecilia-ky3uw yeah so imagine what it’s like for the entire generations of people who were *actively* deprived by that same system. Can you imagine how bad *they* have it?
"a nation of Roses and Angies getting absolutely day wasted on our porches"
It's hilarious but it's also honestly and seriously a world I want to live in. And I don't even drink that much !
Fuck porches, they should do it in a pool bar, just to stick it extra hard to the racists.
The truth is EVERY other race gets wasted on their front porches in different communities. They are feeding a false narrative that only African Americans do that. PEOPLE do!
Cringe!
I'd rather just go to work like all my neighbors. I don't drink that much either and have like zero tolerance. Lol
The world would be a better place if people were more like Rose and Angie.
I just read "The Color of Law" by Richard Rothstein for a class this past semester and learned a lot of this fucked up bs for the first time just this year. The SHEER AMOUNT of shit we're NOT TAUGHT in this country is insane to me.
It's because if the next generation learns about the injustice, they might do something about it. That's why teaching about topics like this is being demonized and literally outlawed under the label of "Critical Race Theory" right now
I agree. Do you want to learn about system racism? Read the color of law
Interested in our full history? Get hold of any of the books by Frederick Lewis Allen.
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn is a real eye-opener, too.
But wait didn’t you read it for a class? Doesn’t that mean that you WERE taught it?
The Color of Law was our orientation reading assignment for my law school. Fantastic book! Incredibly informative and I'm so glad I read it.
I want to be Rose and Angies friend- They are awesome. I hope their grandkids know how amazing these women were.
I wish there were a follow up on these two ❤️
Giving them lots of credit for just being decent damn people. Wild.
They probably shared grand kids or great grand kids
These people still exist all over the place in great number but they are shamed for "thinking" they are not racist, or made fun of or insulted for trying to stop racist habits and mindsets in themselves.
No matter what, no matter how much of their time and energy and heart is put into educating themselves or undoing deeply embedded mindsets and habits, they are still one of the bad guys. Ironically, it is based solely on the color of THEIR skin.
@@normaforsyth7950 Are you doing the CRT/reverse racism thing?
A tall man peering over a 6ft wall as the origin of "Snoop" is now canon.
"cannon" or "canon"? 😁
100% yes.
This "cannon" you speak of must use green powder to fire instead.
@@zakkvanish3668 basically SCP-1132-J.
@@psuedonym9999 I did not know that 😂
20:37 She is such a genius. Plain and simple. She is actually a genius.
That said, it genuinely made me tear up when she said "I'm the thing that is devaluing this house."
That's how you know this is on another level. :(
@Livin Vids yeah cuz 2 appraisals said it was worth so much less when she was there vs when the white guy was for the other 1. Seems like it was the only difference.
@Livin Vids the critical thinking skills of a 5 year old? Please, I bet a five your old can make more of a coherent written argument in contrast to the verbal diarrhea you just spewed.
Why are right wingers the dumbest?
@Livin Vids Then let's see YOU control for other variables.
@Livin Vids Can you believe morons who use "communist" or "Marxist" as an insult?
That is INFINITELY more stupid and bigoted than just blindly uncritically calling everyone racist.
(All the reasons most of the commenters to this video for calling the US government racist and specific individuals racist for their ILLOGICAL/i.e. LOGICALLY INCONSISTENT actions ARE valid reasons for calling them racist. More accurately, for FORCING unfair unjust loans and housing discrimination that seems inexplicably correlated with race.)
@Livin Vids give us the reasons then. Being so opiniated while having no argument. Should be ashamed
I love Rose Mason here. Just the way she is so considerate and says "Pardon me, Angie, these are not my words".
This is a person who knows that words are meaningful, and can cause hurt, and wants to help mitigate that hurt rather than perpetuate it.
John missed an opportunity to say "Do you want Snoop snooping?"
I cringed when he missed that easy layup!
I was legitimately yelling at the screen when he didn't say that. Such a massive missed opportunity.
This is more epic. The keyword is in the name. "SNOOP"
Bravo
He also could have brought in a fat guy with an orange mustache to say “snooping as usual, I see!”, but life hits different.
A nation of Roses and Angies getting day wasted on the porch…I’m in!
I'll join you as well and bring some food to munch on 😊
Rose and Angie are roll models.
We need a Rose for every Karen, that'd straighten things out.
Come to Baltimore! We still day drink on stoops. Can’t promise no racism, but compared to other cities in the US, we’ve got better vibes. Then again I’m biased.
I'll bring gummies if you let me come 🙃😉
Gonna take a moment to appreciate whoever did the title card for this episode, love the negative space of a face within the house key
Truly well done.
I would never notice until i read your comment, thanks for pointing it out. And i looked at that key and was reminded of this other video i saw where a locksmith would punch out the metal sections of a blank key to form the teeth to fit the tumbler, but now i can't unsee the image of a face
Wow, I didn't notice that! Which is funny because I kept looking at the spike at the tip of the key and wondering why the artist chose to make it so long haha
I totally missed it too. I’m into locksport so I was trying to make sense of the bitting and looking at the details. Guess I just couldn’t see the forest through the trees.
Damn I didn’t notice that
Ben Sharpiro "There is no historical systemic racism in America which has lasting effects today"
John Oliver and History "Ahem..."
You just noticed he was full of crap...? You do know that his salary depends on him keeping the same positions he had 5 years ago, and sounded good to his supporters.
@SkippyGipper He's some conservative talk show guy, probably most well known for proudly not pleasing his wife sexually.
Ben is a grifter
@@aoeu256 I relized he was full of crap when he was shilling for jan 6
Yep. For every angry conservative who thinks everyone who calls out racism is an entitled whiner, let them look at this history here!
"We can't be expected to accept guilt for things that we weren't around for"
"I will now proceed to give credit to all the things we did that we weren't around for"
While also still playing on easy mode by willingly taking part in the bounty of the oppressors that came before~
@Naughty Spicy Corner nope cuz black people did not kill 400 million whites over the course of 500 years
Went to school in Levittown, as soon as I saw the topic I knew we’d come up. We’re the textbook example of systemic racism. Literally. It was the example my sociology textbook gave.
That wasn’t systemic. That was pretty much institutional.
It's so weird growing up on Long Island thinking/being taught that segregation was an issue in the South
That may be a recent development in sociology books. When I went to school in the 1970s and 80s, the Levittown mentions in school books were all "positive" about the way it represented the growth of the middle class, the rise of the income of post WW2 Americans, and how modern suburban life developed. As I recall there was never a mention of racism associated with it.
Given your comment, I am glad to learn that the the more complete history of it is being taught now, though I wonder if that is being taught in high schools general American history classes.
@@HartleysFilms interestingly enough, I come from the second oldest town in South Carolina, and when the civil war left the town, the former slaves are the ones who bought their former owners mansions. So it was in a slave owning town that some of the first black homeowners in this country were made! And these were HUGE homes. It was also around that time that the former slaves were built “freedmen” cottages. Guess who owns many of them now? I would argue that America was on track for integration post civil war. It was when the Jim Crowe laws were passed that things got really ugly again.
Mitch just said out loud that the Civil War was about slavery.
Good catch!
And?
@@abiyoyo9831 You dont live down south do you?
@@abiyoyo9831 i guess you had not heard all those "states rights" we been hearing for decades.
@@woaddragonSo wars can’t be fought for multiple reasons?
“game stop stonks"
John Oliver,you are amazing
Mitch McConnel: Reparation is not a good idea since we didn’t live at that time and therefor are not responsible. Also Mitch: We fought a war to end slavery over 150 years ago, which is totally our accomplishment.
So Native Americans should also pay reparation as their ancestors owned slaves, black people in Africa should pay because they sold the slaves were would it end. By the way black people in America owned slaves so should they have to pay also.
Also, Mitch, it DOES NOT MATTER who was responsible, this isn't about figuring out who's to blame (and if it was, black folks wouldn't need white help with that), it's about using government policy to mitigate the harm of past government policy. This isn't just a matter of historical injustice, it's also simple, straightforward math.
@@johnree6106 someone didn't watch the video.
@@CatHasOpinions734 His family owned slaves. Just look it up.
Agree that he sucks, but just a polite correction: the civil war was in the 1860s. That's 160 years.
Anyone else feel like "Mitch" should be used in forms like "Stop acting like such a mitch", or "You're being really mitchy today"?
Yes, he is such a Mitch!!!!
OMFG. I am using that!
Kevin Hart uses that in one of his shows actually.
Yeah, also, anybody who loses a game and then starts insinuating that other players may have cheated should henceforth be called a "cyber-ninja."
One player: Snake eyes again?! These dice must be loaded with, like, magnets or something!!!
Other player: (eye-roll) Whatever, cyber-ninja...
Mitch, please!!!
He called me out for working while watching this, and I’m glad I went back to look at that tree. Thanks, John!
I need to borrow one of y’all husbands is the best line of this segment.
Mr. Oliver, you always bring home the message so clearly that makes it difficult to miss the point! Respect to you Sir. I thank you as a person of color.
He has writers. ALI BARTHWELL, BEN SILVA, CHRISSY SHACKELFORD, DANIEL O’BRIEN, GREG IWINSKI, JOANNA ROTHKOPF Johnathan APPEL, LIZ HYNES, MARK KRAMER, OWEN PARSONS, SEENA VALI, Charlie Redd.
@@anony3615 while i feel this is an underrated comment, I could've done without the all caps. Blocks of text in caps just give me flashbacks of lunatics screaming that masks cause cancer or some other dumb shit.
@@ThePanMan11 yeah I copied pasted it from some website where some lunatic decided to have 75% of names in caps.
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Oggi
While the rascism is obscene I am just as amazed at how easy it was for boomers to settle down in life. No down payments, low or non existent interest rates, and very low monthly payments. And now that same generation keeps insulting everyone nowadays with their sermons on hard work.
Yeah, I don't think that disparity in affordability was addressed enough.
They were handed life on a silver platter and then devoted the rest of their lives to depriving everyone after them of the benefits that got them where they were. Would it surprise you to learn that in the 1970s the Baby Boomers were nicknamed "The 'Me' Generation"? Seems like they've been trying to foist that off on every successive generation since then.
It was easy because a portion of the taxpayers were denied access to federal benefits. There was more to pass around to the boomers.
@@UnDark1 Yes, but it still would have been easier to get established in their generation if a portion of the taxpayers weren't denied access. Back then federal programs were actually funded, the ultra rich had less tax loopholes so they paid (closer to) their fair share in taxes, and college tuition was subsidized by the government (making it free for many Americans).
Today... we get less federal benefits due to underfunding AND a portion of taxpayers are denied those benefits. Boomers truly combined the worst of both worlds for future generations.
Don't blame it on federal benefits.
27:14 "This country has come a long way and, with God as my witness, it will not go any further" - Mitch's political philosophy and life purpose in a nutshell
The church mafia infected politics and refuses to apologize for the miles of abuse cases.
His virtue signalling is infinite.
More like in a turtleshell
This is still going on right now. Minority community gets WAY less investment from government and private firms. Most of the tax money and real estate developer goes to white neighborhood. You look at Chinatown around the US where are usually locate in prime locations are TOTALLY neglected from government funds and services resulting into border slum with homeless people PURPOSELY placed there in order to bring the property value down so that Uncle Sam's white community can buy it cheap and then develop it. The same can be said with high Hispanic and black regions. Its NOT that these region are not generating enough tax money. AS a matter of fact, I see more spending and more cars parked in Asian and Hispanic shopping centers than those on white. Yet the property tax money never goes to these region usually leaving bad infrastructure to bring the value down. Banks work the same way too. They dont even bother investing on small firms focusing on these market. Instead we see the usual plain vanilla bran restaurants, supermarket and what not. This is the real discrimination of the this country.
@@fredh8065 it's not a color thing. It's a enabled multinational church mafia thing, as willfully ignorant types of people want to pretend 9/11 and war$ and pandemics produce real afterlives rather than fictional mythology based ones.
For some content a like just isn't enough. Tremendous quality in all respects here. It would be an absolute honour to get day wasted on a porch with John, your crew and Rose and Angie.
I am 33 and it feels like I'm only beginning to comprehend the power of comedy as form of protected free speech and education, when done in a respectful, conscientious and diligent manner. Exemplary channel for how this should be done effectively here. Excellent.
In a garden full of Karens, be a Rose. If I knew how to cross stitch I’d put that on a pillow encircling a little scene of all the neighbors drinking beer on the porch.
Nylund 😁
Rose (Mason), Rosa (Parks), all great names 👌
That’s a great idea to get into cross stitching.
Luckily I know a few people who can.
This feels way too forced and cringey. Like I get it Karens suck. But is there not a better way to call them out in a way that makes sense or at least doesn't feel like some 80 year old asked her grandkids how to make fun of her friends.
"I'm The thing disvalue my house." When the lady says that I almost cry.
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I did cry man that's so freaking sad
her pain from that moment was palpable. Its like that Cheaters revelation moment. Sure you suspected it enough to even hire a private detective, but the hurtfulness of it doesn't overwhelm until you see the uncontrivable video footage and hotel receipt proof.
Her situation is sad, but blaming prospective buyers or middleman is wrong too. She is a victim of the culture that she will always be tied to in other race’s perspectives. She could be an Ivy League graduate, great mom and wife and still…when white ppl see her, they see a stereotype instead. The optics are the problem.
@@starventure What are you talking about. The middlemen are the ones setting the price of the house. It's absolutely their fault.
"The Color of Law" is a great book. I'm glad to see John reference it. I was thinking about it for the first 11:30 minutes.
The 2015 ~40 minute Fresh Air interview with the author is also outstanding.
Great book!!
I just requested it from the library. Thank you for mentioning it.
There’s also many books written by blacks that show these “examples of racism” are simply manufactured crisis. You guys should read those too.
Ur thorough coverage of every subject is unparalleled, perhaps equally good as what Jon Stewart does. Soooo solid, necessary n important. Keep bringing it!!!
Levittown is where Bill O’Reilly was born and raised. I remember this being brought up by Jon Stewart in a debate and or interview with O’Reilly. When Bill said he never had any advantages over black people.
That makes a lot of sense why he’s such a prick.
I'm surprised O'Reilly was spawned so far north...him being a cold-blooded swamp creature and all
@@DB2ID the racism is REAL in NY. It's just a bit more covert then some other places. The school system is one of the most segregated school systems in the country.
John, this is my life's work. I never thought it could be distilled in half an hour. But you did well. There's so.much here. I pray you inspired people to study more and try to open their minds.
But I fear it will fall into the crt muck and be disregarded.
So much has been left off, like the current government policies that encourage kids not to see their fathers.
@@theBear89451 agreed
McConnell: "I don't want to address issues from 150 years ago. None of us are responsible. Now if you excuse me, I'm about to live my luxurious life, which was handed to me, cause my family is filthy rich. And has been, for generations, for reasons I cannot go into right now."
You don’t seem to know what quotation marks are for. “”. You use those when you are quoting what someone actually said
@Lee Johnson You don’t seem understand a joke
@@julioklj8 Yeah that's pretty inaccurate. Quotation marks exist to indicate direct speech. And even though these words have only been attributed to him, you still need quotation marks.
He's right that 99% of white Americans alive today are not responsible for the plight of African American people. But that's only relevant if reparations happen at the expense of white people, which is not true. All that is needed to fund reparations is taking money out of the military budget, or raising taxes on the middle and upper class. America has plenty of wealth to go around
@@julioklj8 STFU LEE.
4:25 the fact that I *am* listening to this video on a separate tab while at work, and *had* gone back to another tab when he said this bit, chilled me to my f****** bone. It's been 8 months since this video was posted, and this is the first time I've seen this video.
seriously, WTF JOHN?! WHAT OTHER PREDICTIONS DO YOU SEE???
This is so heart breaking. Put yourself in someone else's shoes and just feel the road blocks time after time.
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Blacks get enroled jn schools even when they underperform.
Whites (except Jews) and Asians get blocked for what they are
But yeah roadblocks
What a great inspiration, that Rose. I hope her and Angie lived a good life.
"Hell, I'm gonna join them!" Fucking legend.
Rose is a real MVP. I hope her and Angie lived long, good lives and were friends to the end, also.
I just can't get over the $350,000 dollars being spent on an empty gesture. They may as well have paid Banksy $350,000 to spray paint "we're sorry" on the back of that tombstone. If that joke offends you, now you feel a small bit of what the descendants of the Bruce's must have felt when they found out about the actual "commemorative art".
Didn't John state that they said they were wrong but stopped short of a formal apology, so "We're sorry" is straight out.
@@Vort_tm I guess it would just say "oops" then.
That is easy, first of all, that 350k is government money, so the mayor/whoever in charge to spent it. Goes to his buddy who is an 'artist' (but in real life most likely a drug dealer). Than in change of the 350k the goverment buys a statue and places it. The guy in charge gets a load of free drugs from his buddy as a thank you for the assignment.
I also wondered about that gesture as well. Didn't John say none of the descendants lived there anymore? The city would have been better off sending a check to wherever they lived now.
Ooooooooooooooooo
"Don't just let the audio of this play in the background while you're working."
I feel called out. But yet, I did need to look at that tree.
"Don't just let the audio play on the background while you are working" I felt like Oliver was behind me watching me working when he said that wtf.
For real, I clicked off to check my email, and then I hear that. 😳 Where's the camera John
Same!!
Yeah saaame. Felt like that time he was adressing “Mike in baltimore who's absolutely stoned right now” - feel like that definitely freaked somebody out hahaha
21:22 "I'm the thing that's devaluin' my house." No, racism is devaluing your house. *You* are priceless.
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👏
Everyone devalues their house via wear and tear
Well said.
@@konigstiger3252 Good point. Racism *and* those who turn a blind eye to it. Well illustrated. Ta
The 70's wasn't that long ago... This is quite depressing
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What about the women who had an appraisal for $150,000 less because the appraisers saw that she was black? That happened last week, not 50 years ago. This country is awful.
@@willamtaft5899 This was one of the more shocking revelations in this video. I wasn't surprised about a lot of the others because I had heard about in some way or another before. ( not justifying any of it ). But the appraisal was shocking. Funny thing is where I live you can get an appraisal online without even meeting anyone, purely based statistics of your house and lot and data on the neighbourhood and recent sales of comparable homes. Although that could let racism creep into it as well of course
@@willamtaft5899 so depressing
@@willamtaft5899 yep. That shocked me. And that woman saying "so I am the devaluating factor".... Can't imagine how that must feel for her.
Honestly, this might be one of his best videos. The arguments laid out are clear and hard if not impossible to argue against. That's what makes John and his team the best
I wonder if John is ever gonna talk about the financial unsustainability of American suburbs, bad City design. It's a subject right up his alley bc it harms everyone and almost nobody knows about it.
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Ah, do you also watch Not Just Bikes?
Most American suburbs (particularly the over priced ones) are a time bomb. Hopefully reparations kick in before the next bubble bursts so we can all get in on the ground floor!
@@mac533 You guessed it!
@@Kasslim11 not just bikes is underappreciated😉. I like the "smart trafficlight" analysis (knew we had them but not just hów smart they actually are😂). Or the, what was it, "stroads"? That silly crossover between street and road?
I can never be in enough debt of this show for educating me on such topics that I I would've never known about otherwise all while making me laugh ♡
my mom is elitist too but she will only hide food from the poor but this is crazy...
"Don't just let the audio of this play in the background while you're working, click back on the UA-cam tab and look at it" - Holy shit I was absolutely CALLED OUT!
My family had land stolen from us also. For most of my life, my mother and her siblings have been fighting to reclaim it but because it's been broken up and sold to so many families most lawyers say we'll never get it back.
This is so sad, I'm sorry that this happened to your family
That part when the mayor said lets just move on sounded a lot like "Forget about it!!!"
It must be pretty easy to "move on" when you can afford such snappy suits, campaign funds, to buy your way out of any care in the world, and a solid gold watch like that.
Yeah I robbed the bank. So what? Move on already. That was in the past!
I'M WALKING HERE
But really none of the people under a certain age (say 60 or so) were of voting age at the time any of this happened. Making the younger ones pay for this stuff is exactly the same as sending you the bill a damage your long dead grandfather caused 20 years before your birth. Noone would think that is appropriate either.
"Your grandpa totalled my grandpas car in the 60ies. Now you have to buy me a new car"
"That tree - don't just let the audio of this play in the background while you're working, click back on the youtube tab and look at me!"
- John ... he knows what you're doing. And he knows you need a second of a break. Thanks for aknowledging us.
Frfr I didn't expect him to call me tf out XD
He got me. Freaked me out 😄
I wasn't working I was making an ice road in Minecraft.
I literally swiped to another desktop right before he said that. Am so shook.
@@TayDoesStuff im pretty sure thats the first time ive ever been called out on live tv
The blatant racism almost made me miss how absurdly easy it was for the past generations to get a house and be independent with no college and just one job.
This is so well researched, and so well delivered. Thank you, i needed to know these things.
That Rose segment hit me different. Got me tearin up feeling their bond
I’m so sick and I can’t even s a
The fact that Angie is so comfortable with Rose as she says the worst thing you can to a black person, speaks VOLUMES of how deep and close their relationship is.
That’s an assumption.
Ew
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Pints on the porch with Rose and Angie would make a great daytime talk show.
It could also work in the evening with ice cream
Amen to that
somebody help! there's an unmonetized friendship on the loose! quick drag it down into the cesspit of the entertainment industry!
I’d enjoy sitting on the steps but the idea of a show seems to defile it somehow.
🤣💯💯💯💯💯
If there had been more "Rose", maybe America would be a better country now.
Or maybe if there had been less Epstein, Madoff, Sackler and so on .... A country with a lot of honest/respectable people is still a bad country if the greediest malicious people have power/money ...
@@benmat Sometimes, to have a real change, it's more powerful to focus on the "good" people. To set an example to follow and to give people the courage to do the right thing. :-)
Take a statue of a confederate general down and put a statue of Rose and Angie up
@@ingleseperitaliani7042 People are victims of their circumstances and culture until they start to think for themselves. I don't think that concentrating on one or another of the "good" people is helpful or even enlightening. Deeds and activities are that on which we must focus. Leave the statues for the pigeons.
I have to shake my head in disgust at the realization that one person ran for President of the USA in 2016 , and won, on a slogan that implies making this a better country... and everyone "knew" what he meant... and it wasn't racial harmony.
Another unbelievable episode...your team is wonderful John!
"Winston Churchill once famously observed that Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else." You should do a report on what has been done to black farmers…..
I'm always amused when people trot out this quote. Sure, it's a fun dunk on Americans, but leaning on _Winston Churchill_ as a source of moral authority is laughable.
I think The Daily Show with Trevor Noah did a piece on what happened to black farmers
@@OlOleander I was just thinking the same thing. Anyone not informed on the subject should look up just what Winston Churchill thought of India and its people.
@@OlOleander That is church!
@@OlOleander thank you
My parents try to buy a house in the early 90s. Realtor try to steer them to questionable homes.
They just had to go to homeowners themselves who were selling in order to get a nice home. I don't think the seller knew our last name until the paper work happened.
@@bonzosmashes they just said that the didn’t. They worked with them until a pattern was clear, and then they didn’t. Did you read?
@@Vendavalez yes, another real estate agent was used afterwards once we knew what my parents wanted.
Funny story is we moved to a white neighborhood and those white people moved out.
This should be taught in history classes. Not doing so is lying by omission.
That is the point of Critical Race Theory, when you here people arguing against teaching Critical Race Theory this is what they are trying not to teach.
I was a history professor and wish I could go back in time and redo my lectures on Levittown.
In Texas they will be omitting more than just this sadly. They're getting rid of reaching about kkk, jim crow, MLK and much much more. It needs to be stopped!
I did teach this and got summoned to the principal's office for making white students uncomfortable. I was ordered not to show a video illustrating the accumulation of wealth by white people that was impossible for non-white people. Teachers have to be backed up by administration, Boards of Education, and the community.
It’s been made illegal to discuss in my state. Good job, Oklahoma
Gotta love John Oliver!!!
I am sure the land will be returned. We just have to wait for the sea level to rise some more.
So sad but so true
@@qloudlet exactly what I was going to reply to Thomas. It's crazy.
I was thinking this... and then the state will fine them for flooding or some other made up BS
And as Ben Shapiro says, so what if the sea levels rise you can just sell your house (that is sitting under the sea) and move elsewhere no worries.
Touché !
This is SOOOOOOO great that he is exposing all of this. I held a class (in one of my videos) that discusses exactly how eminent domain and redlining affected the community of color here in Portland Oregon. This is one of the motivating factors in why I got into real estate! It's time to f*cking address once and for all!!!!
I’m so glad you covered these real issues and how they are NOT over, and definitely still effecting communities of color today (hello TFG’s wall and Native land). I’ll be checking out your videos, because I love hearing different voices on serious issues.
All I’d like to say, for people trying to do further research, is that the law is ‘eminent domain.’
Any good books on this subject? I want to learn more about this.
@@terradusa4219 The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
You taught a class on imminent domain? That's really cool! Does it have any similarities to eminent domain? 🙃
Maybe living with a 40 hour week job and having good credit might help the color of your skin should not matter but usually don't end up that way because they don't got either
20:30 this is so depressing, when the woman finds out "it is her that devalues the house". America, you're fucked up seriously
There is literally not enough proof to say that, it was flagrant reporting. It should be investigated but there are tons of reasons why different appraisals at different times come to different values. Just think about how much a post covid real estate market has spiked. There was no info on when the appraisals were done either so they could very well be comparing a pre-covid value to a post-covid value.
@@NoneNone-mu2se Yeah sure buddy
@@NoneNone-mu2se What if they did it five times in the same week and got similar results. Would that change your mind?
@@NoneNone-mu2se Yeah sure buddy
@@NoneNone-mu2se as a black home owner who jumped through hell to get that home... I see you... I see you... can we just be gone and have a real honest discussion? Like can we talk about it? Cus you have fear of me being on the same level as you and that’s what we need to talk about. Let me know, I’m here to really do this work. Cus I truly believe I can’t heal from racialized trauma if you can’t heal from it as well. Truly best wishes, hoping we can talk. Direct honest speak, that’s what we need.
I watched the series "Them" and was shocked, even though it was fiction. Then I read "The Color Of Law" by Richard Rothstein and discovered that the facts were even more shocking than the fiction.
If you ask me, the primary function of fiction is to examine real world situations and issues through a lens of detachment from our real world prejudices.
This is true history and should be taught in every school.
BuT tHiS iS CrITicAL RAce ThEOrY!!
Go Bruins
Critical Race Theory. This is why the right is fighting so hard.
It's illegal to teach this is Texas now. Recent law because white people got hurt feelings. 'Murica.
Yeah...until you grow up in a state like Texas
People forget we gave reparations to slave owners, not the slaves themselves after "abolition".
WTF...
I say abolition in quotations as our prison system is basically replaced slavery and when/if you get out for the long haul its likely a wage slavery situation
This is indeed a fact. When people call this country racist, and claim that is the country’s foundation they’re right. We have centuries of documents/receipts that prove so.
@@user-qp4ij4yl8y ok and black people are incarcerated at 5x the rate of white people
@@user-qp4ij4yl8y elaborate on that, you're walking the line between based and cringe depending on your intent by putting races in quotations and by what experience you're referring to.
If you're referring to excessive incarceration and wage slavery yes people of all ethnicities experience this in the us, as we are all as workers oppressed and exploited to varying degrees under a capitalist organization of the economy, but certain demographics are disproportionally oppressed, which kind of what the whole video this thread is on is about, but its a video made my a massive corporation that can't be too honest about systemic issues that it benefits from.
So glad he used REVEAL as a reference. Incredible investigative journalists. The podcast has opened my eyes to so many issues in our society, and their redlining episodes were stellar.
I didn't catch the mention of Reveal, so i REALLY appreciate this comment because now I am certainly going to listen to it!
Thanks so much!
Thank you John Oliver. You have explained this subject so clearly that a child could understand it.
Mitch "And a White Man Set Y'alls Free, so, Show Some Gratitude, Boy" McConnell
You made me laugh out loud at my job
Mitch "I have all of the moral worth of month old sewage" McConnell
Mitch McConnell is your guy. Leftist controlled opposition
Black guy here and wow. And if you can say your ancestors were bad it is your fault aswell
@@aaronsmith8542 White guy here. Even though my ancestors didn't come over from Europe until 120 years ago, I know that I still benefitted from the embedded racism I this country. Like in the old commercials, Racism in the US is like Palmolive: You're Soaking in It!
I repeat, nice & loud for my fellow whites:
Racism: _You're Soaking in It._