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Emanuel Cleaver: “We had individuals who publicly, right in this committee, said that there was great intentionality in targeting Brown…”

On the recordSeptember 25, 2019
We had individuals who publicly, right in this committee, said that there was great intentionality in targeting Brown and Black individuals to victimize. And these were people in the lending community who acknowledged what happened with a lot of these exotic products and telling people you could buy a $100,000 house, even if you were working for a yellow bus company making $15,000 a year. And that is a real example.
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Emanuel Cleaver
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the targeting of minorities in lending practices.

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