John Oliver on Sunday made the case for monetary reparations for Black Americans — not by citing slavery but more recent cases of housing discrimination, including a notorious case from Manhattan Beach, California.
“We’re not actually talking about reparations for slavery here. We should, but that is a different conversation,” he said on Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight.” “We’re talking about housing discrimination.”
He then delved into the family of Anthony Bruce, a Black family who owned two oceanfront lots in Los Angeles County and faced enormous pressure to abandon their home — first from the Ku Klux Klan, which burned a cross out in front of their lodge, and then from the local government in the 1920s.