Redlining is part of the immense capital transfer from blacks to hashtag-not-all-whites that America is famous for. Understanding this capital transfer is useful in considering why economic inequality persists today -- and you can certainly use it to figure out why parts of Appalachia and the South have such poor white populations as well.<p>It sounds like you&#x27;re pretty emotional about your grandparents&#x27; life, and that&#x27;s cool; it shouldn&#x27;t preclude discussion of history that acknowledge the intentionally differential effects of Reconstruction, federal support for homeownership, federal sentencing laws for drug crimes, voting law, etc. These are all facts in history that have effects on what is possible now, because they have determined what we&#x27;re starting from. Why say that the Armenians are still allowed to be traumatized about what happened in the 1920s while black Americans aren&#x27;t allowed to talk about mortgages in the 1980s? It just isn&#x27;t very logical. We should be able to talk about all of this.