I don't know what those white people in this country feel,

but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institution.

Now, this is the evidence.

You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children,

on some idealism which you assure me

exists in America, which I have never seen.

Welcome back to another episode of Black History for White People, a podcast where we educate,

resource, and challenge white people about black history.

I'm Brad, and on today's show are my co-host, Katina and Garan.

Today's topic is redlining.

We first go over the historical context of redlining, what it is,

why it was so prevalent in the 1960s,

and give some helpful thoughts on what the prolonged effects of redlining are.

We hope you enjoy the discussion.

Okay, Garen, talk to me about what is happening at this point in history

and kind of introduce us to what redlining is.

Yeah, so redlining is, is in some senses kind of a technical

thing to understand. It's a little bit, I don't know, maybe boring to understand because it has to do

with like laws and systems. And so I don't want to get too much into the technical and want to kind

of humanize it and try to help you guys, the audience understand some of like the human

elements of what was happening. So I'm actually, I'll give a real kind of brief definition,

but then I want to launch into just a couple stories, and then we'll

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