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" Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Racism

Mortgage

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Art

Imagine

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Ambition

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