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John Oliver Argues for Reparations for Black Americans With LA's Manhattan Beach Case (Video)

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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. "The city decided to take the.

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