What do you think of when you hear the term "The Color of Money"? One might come up with the simple color of their dollar bill. The Color of Money is actually the title of an article about an investigation that one journalist by the name of Bill Dedman had finaly had completed in 1989 after about eight year of reseach and information gathering. Without the use of computers he would not have been able to do his research. Computers helped Dedman to find the information that he had needed in order to study facts and compare numbers and statistics.
One of the articles, Atlanta blacks losing in home loans scramble: Banks favor white areas by 5-1 margin, gives you an indepth look at Dedmans' findings. Inclosed in Dedmans' article was a detailed analyas on Atlanta's banks and savings and loan institutions, would give loan to the poor white neighborhoods in Atlanta, but they would not let the middle-class or upper scaled black neighborhoods receive any loans.
I felt that the article is speaking out on what many african americans have felt on the loan situation and this aritcle say what many banks dont want to say that why this article is so news worthy. I feel that nothing else could have been done in order to improve this paper because I feel that with the Freedom of Information Act, Dedman had enough information that he needed in order to clearly record and post his findings.
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Your reaction was a good one although with the Freedom of Information Act he still would have been able to access the information, it would've taken longer but he still would've obtained it. But in all I think it was nice how you formatted your reaction.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your resposnes, especailly the one pertaining to how the article says what the banks tried to cover up. Also, I agree that the paper was best as is.
ReplyDeleteI like this article. I feel that it allowed us all, black and white to see the truth, what was really going on with the bank and there loans. Although i know a lot of you feel that this is not fair and should not be going on but what can be done to change this?
ReplyDeleteThis article was very interesting. It's a shame that banks would such a stunt to keep black people from getting loans. Why not just give everybody a fair chance at getting what they deserve? These kinds of practices are simply unfair and unjust.
ReplyDeleteI might say that this might be one of the best intersting articles I read so far. I feel that back then, it was crazy how the banks didn't want to give blacks people loans for anything: education, homes, cars and etc. it should be a fair even chances for eveyone, if whites were allowed loans, blacks should be allowed to.
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