John Oliver revisited a history of housing discrimination in the US and how the wealth of black people has been affected by harmful policies. It led to a cycle of generational wealth for white people that continues to this day. “These policies alone had a devastating effect on black communities significantly expanding and locking in segregation,” he said. “The only time the addition of a white man should increase value to anything is if that thing is a movie and that white man is Stanley Tucci,” he joked. He continued: “The only strange thing about paying reparations to black people is that we haven’t done it already.” He called it “a wound that we are actively choosing not to heal”.

Source: The Guardian July 26, 2021 15:00 UTC