The racial wealth gap won’t be closed by good intentions.
, John Oliver made an arresting case for reparations. The show’s main segment focused primarily on housing discrimination in the US and the ways in which federal policies such as redlining and racial covenants, and their ongoing ramifications for Black Americans, have historically contributed to an almost unbridgeable wealth gap in which Black families own about $13 for every $100 in wealth owned by a non-Hispanic white family.
In discussing a recent decision from officials in Los Angeles County toa beachfront property to a Black family, the Bruces, nearly a century after it was unjustly taken from them under the guise of eminent domain, Oliver claims that it is “something approaching justice. Land was taken away, land is given back.”Oliver extends the argument to all forms of housing discrimination, not just what happened to the Bruces.
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