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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
I don't understand how one can say it is a fact and not have any persecution against those that are discriminating towards blacks, if it is a fact since there are supposedly laws already in place to address this.
As far as business owners not treated equally can you explain what that means better please?
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cyn....I only got back into this discussion after you used my name in vain.
I am not lumpy....I am a lean, mean liberal machine.
Discrimination towards black small business owners....from a June 2007 GAO report I posted in the other tiring discussion on AA:
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GAO's June 2008 report found that most research suggests that discrimination may play a role in certain types of nonmortgage lending, but data limitations complicate efforts by researchers and regulators to better understand this issue. For example, available studies indicate that African-American owned small businesses are denied loans more often or pay higher interest rates than white-owned businesses with similar risk characteristics. While the primary data source for these studies, a periodic FRB small business survey, provides important insights into possible discrimination, it also has limits compared to HMDA data...
U.S. GAO - Fair Lending: Race and Gender Data Are Limited for Nonmortgage Lending
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As is noted, the fact that current laws dont require lenders to collect or provide personal data, including race make it difficult to conclude with 100% certainty.
Why hasnt discrimination in lending, housing, employment, voting, etc. been prosecuted?
Simple, at least for the last eight years, the Bush DoJ chose to ignore its responsibilities to uphold the federal civil rights and voting rights laws and ignored or fired any DoJ attorneys who tried to do their job.