https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144?cxt=HHwWgICstcS9l5cqAAAA

Fail.  This link does nothing except define what redlining was. 

What you don't seem to realize is that white people had this problem too.  Poor white neighborhoods were redlined too and I know because my grandfather could not buy a house in one...because it was a poor white immigrant slum that banks didn't want to invest in.  They wound up in a little two room shack on a farm way out of town and basically got by on subsistence farming, too poor to even have chickens.  After many years, they managed to get a house with indoor plumbing, but to the day she died, my grandmother worked a multi-acre garden so they could have food.

You can't just use the example of one person (on either side) to try to make a point.

Here are some numbers from 1990. Showing just the extremes but all the tables are in the link below:

Approval rate for a White person at < 80% of median income: 76.5%
Approval rate for a White person at > 120% of median income: 81.9%
Approval rate for a Black person at < 80% of median income: 58.5%
Approval rate for a Black person at > 120% of median income: 64.5%

Low income person in a predominantly white neighborhood: 75.3%
High income person in a predominantly white neighborhood: 79.7%
Low income person in a predominantly black neighborhood: 61.8%
High income person in a predominantly black neighborhood: 74.1%

In either case, high income black people on average had a harder time to secure loans than low income white people. There will obviously be outliers on both sides of the equation, but there's no use trying to deny the past.

Page 872 & 874:
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/FRB/1990s/frb_111991.pdf
 

I’m guessing you just lost some of your best people. I’d at least try to have some respect for people who think critically enough to decline at present “the biggest drug trial” in the history of the world.

Each of those employees happen to be against ALL vaccines, not just COVID. Their objections had nothing to do with "biggest drug trial".

A FB friend and church member posted the meme on FB about everyone should be forced to get the vaccine. I was a bit surprised and even more surprised at the number of folks that gave it a thumbs up.  The thought of freedom seems to have left the country.

We still have freedom. Today I fired all my anti-vaxer employees.

Free enterprise FTW!

It's as non sequitur as your post.

Touché, but my only other post on this thread was about D.C. resident's right of representation, hence my confusion about the utopia statement.

But we just want dirty air and dirty water, right?

That seems like an interesting reference, but I don't know what that refers to.

The alternative is small business but again, regulation stifles that, so these communities were given economic collectivism (welfare, government housing). In retrospect we see that was the wrong solution. What they really needed was seed capital and less regulatory burden.

But the malignant growth of government only increased regulatory burden, and discrimination prevented loans to blacks for seed capital. This also applied to poor urban whites. In the hillbilly land, isolation was the problem and you needed government to push a plan to get electricity to them. Later, they were behind on internet access, even still high speed internet is not available in many remote areas.

So government continued to grow and become a heavier burden on business while the biggest corporations lobbied and found loopholes and hence were “in bed” with government and only grew richer while it became ever harder for the small man to rise. Along came Donald Trump, reducing regulations and BOOM the economy explodes with prosperity.

What are the specific regulations that affected small business that you think Trump removed and where did they go BOOM?

I own a small business BTW. The only thing that I saw in terms of regulatory changes over the last 4 years was a big headache in terms of how employee stock is issued, and all it did was to give work to lawyers. Can't even explain the change to you if I tried.

Did you watch the styxhexenhammer video Lucifer posted? I hope not because if you did you let it go in one ear and out the other or you weren’t capable of following his extremely well stated points. It explains why this is a very naive response.

Here’s the link again in case you missed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S3_vwTMMJY&feature=emb_logo

I did. Look, I'm not in favor of corporations or the balance of power resting in the hand of a few billionaires. I'm just taking momentary glee in the fact that this monster that the right has been creating for decades is coming back to bite you in the ass.

Look, I'm in favor of dogs. I'm even in favor of wolves, as long as your have the proper precautions in place. But the right insisted on creating demogorgons. And now that the demogorgon is biting you, you're saying it's a cat. That's a bit rich.

At least styxhexenhammer correctly calls them fascists and not communists, which is more than what I can say for a lot of people here.