How Riots Rewired 1968 Civil Rights

In this episode, we delve into the topic of How Riots Rewired 1968 Civil Rights. {"transcription":"WEBVTT\n\n00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:02.940\nIt's kind of wild to think about, but in 1968,\n\n00:00:03.220 --> 00:00:06.000\nit was completely legal for a landlord to just\n\n00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:08.619\nlook you in the eye and deny you a home simply\n\n00:00:08.619 --> 00:00:10.679\nbecause of the color of your skin. Yeah, totally\n\n00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:12.419\nlegal. I mean, you could have the money, right?\n\n00:00:12.439 --> 00:00:14.400\nYou could have the credit. But if you tried to\n\n00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:17.239\ncross this invisible geographic line into a white\n\n00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:19.219\nneighborhood, the door would just be shut in\n\n00:00:19.219 --> 00:00:21.640\nyour face. Exactly. And the most shocking part\n\n00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:24.960\nof the history here is that it took literal riots\n\n00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:27.640\noutside the doors of Congress to finally change\n\n00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:31.239\nthat. Welcome to The Deep Dive. Today to that money? Yes. The law only requires\n\n00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:41.940\nthat landlords apply those financial screening\n\n00:08:41.940 --> 00:08:44.919\ncriteria consistently to every single applicant,\n\n00:08:45.299 --> 00:08:48.539\nregardless of their background. So the law essentially\n\n00:08:48.539 --> 00:08:50.879\nensures a landlord can reject you for the contents\n\n00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:53.659\nof your wallet, but absolutely not for your identity?\n\n00:08:54.019 --> 00:08:55.750\nThat's a great way to put it. But looking at\n\n00:08:55.750 --> 00:08:58.289\nthe modern landscape, there is a glaring statistic\n\n00:08:58.289 --> 00:09:00.210\nin our sources that we have to talk about. The\n\n00:09:00.210 --> 00:09:02.789\nHUD numbers. Yeah. We have the Department of\n\n00:09:02.789 --> 00:09:05.289\nHousing and Urban Development, specifically their\n\n00:09:05.289 --> 00:09:07.649\nOffice 00:21:18.240\nto wonder. When you look at the laws and the\n\n00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:20.720\nrights we supposedly have codified today, how\n\n00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:23.759\nmany of them are just like the 1866 Act? Right.\n\n00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:26.099\nTechnically legal, technically guaranteed, but\n\n00:21:26.099 --> 00:21:28.319\npractically toothless, just waiting for their\n\n00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:31.180\nown 1968 moment to finally be enforced. Is the\n\n00:21:31.180 --> 00:21:33.359\ninvisible line in the sand really gone or has\n\n00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:35.839\nit just been moved? That is a lot to think about.\n\n00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:38.000\nThank you for joining us on this deep dive. Keep\n\n00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:39.619\nquestioning the history behind the headlines\n\n00:21:39.619 --> 00:21:41.019\nand we will see you next time.\n","format":"vtt","status":"published"}