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- From: Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks)
- Subject: Re: Institutional racism in education
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- >|A person with twenty late loan payments is supposedly unfairly denied
- >|a mortage which is given to a person with only one late loan payment.
-
- >Says who? What does this have to do with the posted article?
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- "Blacks and Hispanics do, for example, tend to have weaker
- credit ratings and greater debts than white applicants. That
- in turn, contributes to the higher minority
- mortgage rejection rates, the study's authors said."
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- >|Now, if the government wanted to find
- >|actual racial bias, they could simply pick up the phone and call, say,
- >|the Society of Black Engineers.
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- >Right. In any case, Terry, you're wrong.
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- Since such "studies" never find a "minority" who was denied a mortgage
- who was a better credit risk than a "majority" who received a mortgage,
- but instead cook data showing poorer people receive fewer loans into
- a claim that people who are "minorities" are always denied loans, I doubt it.
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- The difference is my position that a bank which engages in racial
- discrimination engages in racial discrimination and your position
- that a bank which doesn't engages in racial quotas engages in
- racial discrimination.
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