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'Catastrophic Times' for Black America
The Nation ^ | Jan. 18, 2008 | Max Fraser

Posted on 01/18/2008 10:56:09 AM PST by Lorianne

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1 posted on 01/18/2008 10:56:11 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

ooops this is an excerpt


2 posted on 01/18/2008 10:56:49 AM PST by Lorianne
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"There is no question that a black or Latino family is twice as likely to receive a subprime loan as a white family," fumed Lewis Fidler, a white New York City Councilman who participated in the day's second panel, "The State of Home Foreclosures." "If that's not a civil rights issue, I don't know what is."

Perhaps it's because they're more likely NOT to pay their bills on time?

3 posted on 01/18/2008 10:56:59 AM PST by RockinRight (Huck(abee, not the Freeper Huck) Sucks.)
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Maybe because they don’t have any ID???? And, shouldn’t be required to according to some who think voters ID is discriminatory!


4 posted on 01/18/2008 11:02:27 AM PST by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
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To: RockinRight

“Perhaps it’s because they’re(blacks&Latinos) more likely NOT to pay their bills on time?”

....yep, and because of this banks used to decline lots of loan applications....they did this to protect themselves and their shareholders....for their prudence; they were attacked as “racist” and accused of “redlining”


5 posted on 01/18/2008 11:10:44 AM PST by STONEWALLS
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World to end tomorrow - Women & Minorities hardest hit - NY Times.


6 posted on 01/18/2008 11:11:36 AM PST by NeoCaveman (It's a Texas Hold Em Primary and Fred is "All In" in South Carolina)
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"The sky is falling, women and minorities hit hardest."

Watch carefully as we march steadily towards November. Watch as the ususal suspects work hard to stir up the black vote, conjuring up all kinds of villans and boogeymen. Remember, it was George Bush who was responsible for the chain dragging death in Texas. Remember, Bill Clinton told us he saw many black churches burned as a boy.

Just you watch.

7 posted on 01/18/2008 11:14:16 AM PST by Obadiah (I don't like to brag - but I'm half bilingual!)
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To: Lorianne

Seems a good FICO score, 20% downpayment, and requiring only 25% of your TAKEHOME pay to go to a mortgage is now RACIST???


8 posted on 01/18/2008 11:15:19 AM PST by griswold3 (Al queda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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To: goodnesswins

Well my wife and I built our home here (Charleston, SC) 8-years ago and we didn’t have an issue with our loan nor have we ever paid our mortgage late. I hate articles like these articles because they assume to speak for all of black America.

I’ve been a member of this site since 2000 and have spent just about the last 20-years of my life traveling to some of the worst places on earth defending freedom. Stop painting with such a broad brush. We’re not all liberals loons. At least the members of this site should be smart enough to know better.

TD - USAF


9 posted on 01/18/2008 11:22:19 AM PST by Terrence DoGood
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"There is no question that a black or Latino family is twice as likely to receive a subprime loan as a white family," fumed Lewis Fidler, a white New York City Councilman who participated in the day's second panel, "The State of Home Foreclosures." "If that's not a civil rights issue, I don't know what is."

What an @sshole. First they complained that they didn't get any loans . . . now they're complaining that they don't like -- MONTHS OR YEARS AFTER THEY SIGNED THE PAPERWORK, MIND YOU -- the terms of the loans they did get.

10 posted on 01/18/2008 11:26:27 AM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: Terrence DoGood

And you did all that you did without the help of the Nation, the country’s oldest Marxist publication, the Reverend Jesse Con Artist and any liar-in-chief such as Al Sharpton. Imagine that.


11 posted on 01/18/2008 11:28:31 AM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: griswold3

Heck, even a not so good FICO score and 20% down will get you a decent rate.


12 posted on 01/18/2008 11:30:35 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Hillary = Senator Incitatus, Clintigula's whore...er, horse.)
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Didn’t Congress DEMAND that lender’s lend to people with bad credit and no money down?? Didn’t they want “red-lining” STOPPED ASAP??


13 posted on 01/18/2008 11:31:24 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Terrence DoGood

Exactly the point that was NOT made in the article.

People who are not Black and who are not Latino but who have poor credit records are also ‘targeted’ for sub-prime loans. These people are also in for ‘catastrophic times’ if they cannot meet the terms of their loan agreements. But I guess if they are not Black or not Latino, it’s not as ‘catastrophic’.


14 posted on 01/18/2008 11:35:26 AM PST by Lorianne
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Structural inequality is because of false leaders like da rev Jesse who moan and groan about discrimination, while the problem lies in self-inflicted pathologies such as no-father families, blind hatred of Whites and dependence on no-work handouts from a corrupt government.


15 posted on 01/18/2008 11:35:44 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism is mental debility)
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To: Terrence DoGood

Terrence...THANK you for your service.....There is NOTHING that covers everyone!!! You should know that. I’m a woman, and NOTHING about women covers all of my life, actually MOST don’t but I will admit that women are DUMBER than men in most things....finances, politics, business,news of the day, so I am stereotyping even though I don’t fit that stereotype. Don’t play the victim card.


16 posted on 01/18/2008 11:35:59 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Terrence DoGood

I want to make sure you realize that I wasn’t personally painting with a broad brush. All I was pointing out is that those minorities who were previously turned down, and now getting subprime loans, in 99% + of those cases it was credit/income reason, not racism. I’m not saying that some loan officer out there didn’t have racist intentions, but I’d say the vast majority do not in this instance.


17 posted on 01/18/2008 11:36:59 AM PST by RockinRight (Huck(abee, not the Freeper Huck) Sucks.)
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To: Ouderkirk

If you don’t have to worry about PMI, you can get an “A-paper” loan in the upper 500s if you have good income and 20% down. When you have less down it’s more an issue of whether or not you can get PMI than anything else.


18 posted on 01/18/2008 11:38:19 AM PST by RockinRight (Huck(abee, not the Freeper Huck) Sucks.)
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To: Ann Archy

Google “duval patrick” and redlining.

The man made a MINT by using the gov’t, as liberals do, to force business to act against market forces,

and when the consequences of this came home to roost, then the race pimps once again blame the businesses.


19 posted on 01/18/2008 11:40:11 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Ann Archy

I think you’re right on that. The Federal government has been in the business of endorsing risky home loans for decades.


20 posted on 01/18/2008 11:41:42 AM PST by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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