“These are the people who got swindled out of homeownership,” Lewis Johnson said. “Regardless of what solution we come up with, we have to remember that the value of these neighborhoods needs to increase in comparison to their white counterparts. Whatever solution we create for redress, it can’t make a specific population — in this case, Black people, vulnerable again because when you segregate Black people you make them vulnerable to people who are greedy, even if they’re not racist, there are institutions or businesses that view them as a market to financially take advantage of.”
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