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a bleak didn, everything that's why I'll ends the show. It there's always moved the story so We have more data and records and we could possibly fit into a story We share. Those leads with local reporters who can and that's what this week show is all about. The small publications and local orders were making big waves, and I wanted to start with one of my favorite. It builds on something my colleague's work done a few years ago in twenty nineteen reveal found hundreds of current informer lawn. For members who joined online. Eight hate groups in twenty twenty, a rookie report,

from Louisville reached out does and asked how many Kentucky cops were in these groups. We knew of four, but he had a scoop that bigotry on the fourth was not just being expressed on line. It was being taught, and his story sparked a scandal so big that the governor had to respond. So, let's start there blow out. Everybody is having a safe election day, but we are still fighting this worldwide pandemic, its November third, twenty twenty km in Kentucky governor Andy Bashir, looks tired, say he's doing a socially distant covert briefing from a podium flanked by flags is, during one of those Navy Blue Zip jacket that governors in them

movies always seem to have when their touring disaster sites we're gonna get through this we're gonna get through this together. At the time, covert numbers were surging here, just likely were almost everywhere, but at this press conference reporters had another question governor task, if you asked for commissioner brewers resignation because of the incident with the training manual- and you become aware of any other incidents watched such material may have been used. The previous week, a story broke about a Kentucky state police training slide, show the slide show which they showed to more than a hundred new recruits featured a quote from Adolf Hitler. It also urged officers to be ruthless. Colors with regards to the commissioner, he submitted his resignation after the story published Rodney Brewer, along time better and on the force step, downers down

so we are conducting a top to bottom review of training materials. We have identified at least one other powerpoint. fears to contain some of the same information from the same the reporter who broke this story didn't get to ask any questions. This press conference In fact he hadn't even been invited. Maybe that's because he's a teenager man, I'm such a Wharton, I'm seventeen years old I'll be a senior next year departmental Highschool. Another satchel looks a little bit like he stepped out of a West Anderson Movie, he's gotta Fedora, ah here round glasses, and he loves the news that along with his younger brother and Co Rapporteur Cooper wrote there. Her story for the manual red eye, I school newspaper and it was up bombshell under.

Fire and under scrutiny s Kentucky State police or under the spotlight Congress. John, your maltreated quote as it can How can I am angry and embarrassed, and as a jewish American, I am genuinely disturbed that there are people when I caught up with that. He was sitting in the same place. He spent a lot of time. Reporting is unfinished attic under support. Beams fluffy tops of insulation. when they make your story into a movie the coming up. Age story. Where do you think it would start there I plead luck really, my There is a law you're in one of his partners had a case about a police shooting in Eastern Kentucky he got through discovery? Presentation and the Kentucky State police in which they quoted here and my dad texted the family group John said: oh, my god. How did you know that this was something you

to dig into. It was just an instinctive reaction. You can't be quoting Hitler. Brenda Police training- that's insane, I couldn't believe it, and I first saw those images. I thought they must have been photoshopped or somethin. but I ve got the whole slide. Show here on a sea they ve got is a man. American flag and Ball Eagle. In the background Paragon we ve got this quote, The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment. Violence quote Adolf it I read a tribute set right air level and that's not why something nice that we said that just so happen to have been said by the evil maniac. That was. something Hitler said that is, like you know, sounds like a core tenet of fascism. Ok, see you get this blockbuster tip, and what do you do? Next?

make sure that it's true, I adding my first thought would be like no way that that could be a part of a police training, Well, the first thing to do was to look at the data. on the slide show its self on the file in look at when it was created, look at who created at and that seemed to line How do you make sure that, with you non professional news out, let that no had ever heard of how to verify that everything is correct. These steps, things that you instinctively knew how to do or where they things. You had to learn, as you were doing them, it's definitely not something. I wouldn't know how to do if I'd Cooper and I hadn't then in a team, on a bunch of cars with the Red Eye editor and with the adviser, so

she'll says. One of the big things missing from the story was a quote from the Kentucky State Police and then eventually this spokesperson, he said the quotes reference in Hitler words are used for their content and relevance to the topic addressed in the presentation. The presentation touches and several aspects of service, selflessness and moral guidance. All of these topics go to the fundamentals of law Foresman, such as treating everyone equally service to the public and being guided by alone. Now that's the original quote. Oh oh, he defended yeah now that that basically, the the whole thing he didn't condemn and say something better, but yeah yeah blow the article and then what happens you get too, like split, some cold water on your face and take a walk around the block Well, that was is basically the plan. I told the friend of mine was couple blocks down the road asked issued,

on a day play a card game at the park on Friday afternoon. I just wanted to think about something else and relax for a little while button Fortunately, my phone capped ringing, and there was one the advisers saying Sacho Are you gotta check your ear? I will answer your phone. The governor spokesperson wants to talk to us and get a quote now central. Can you tell me watching the story go out the world. What does it look like from what you said once Martin Luther Kings daughter was tweeting about once Maggie Haber men Whitehouse, corresponding from New York Times, is retweeting the article. I was jets shocked excited A new era with demanded big response? locally October thirty. Is we publish the first story about Hitler quotes in the presentation,

four days later November? Second, we publish it towards peace that their Kentucky State police. Commissioner Rodney brewer had resigned after thirty three years. Loser. Who's been in the Kentucky State police for somewhere around twice as long as you, ve been alive, yes and he stepped down is premature. Direct result Yes as a consequence these articles, he is forced to step down and the spokesperson Davis did the original statement defending the Hitler quotes, still works within Turkey Stately there's been reassigned. Then you didn't stop there now. someone who works within law enforcement I'm sleigh contacted us about Kentucky depart of criminal justice training that had used a clip from anti semitic NEO Nazi, film companies and included aid Nazi

logo in it, ok, so to recap: theirs one training slideshow quotes Hitler, then there's a different law enforcement agency in the state it uses a symbol from NEO Nazis in their training. Video feels like too much nazi stuff to just be a coincidence leads me to think that maybe there's some kind of affinity between Kentucky law enforcement. In there eight groups that are whistling demand, maybe, and that is not to not too high tension a dog whistle to put Hitler Kreutz in there that one's pretty obvious incidents. That's that's a foghorn satchel and his team keep reporting they publish five stories about the nazi logo. Hitler quote in quotes from confederate

General Robert E Lee all used inside training materials. Eventually, Governor Bashir agrees to talk with the paper reading ass. I do you know, satchel and to student. Reporters join Bashir and Zoom feels like half interview, half trip to the principal's office, but in this case the principle one getting grilled and I'm in my full, had green jacket and white shirt, and unfinished attic that doesn't look quite professional and present a ball, but that's all right questions serve algae video. We recently, I was an article about with tee nazi symbols, start I see changes investigation determined to include this video yet there, since eighty is still

Loving Tom tomorrow on the call Governor Bashir promises a top to bottom investigation, but more than half a year later. Satchel tells me they still don't have answers to some fundamental question. I would still like to know how long trainees like this were used would still like to know what the approval process within the Kentucky State Police was like and how the states top to bottom investigation is going or did go or if it ever happened or started or existed waiting think this story took off the way that it did. Volvo the sight of lots and lots of protests and conversations about Rachel Jason about policing and twenty twenty, because was where Brianna Taylor had been shot in March, twenty twenty by the level Metro, police department, and so within that guy

text. I think there is a special, awareness of the sort of issues, these are the series of articles discussed about policing, and I shall justice and hatred bigotry in this case so would you away from this experience. I think that this serious, shows that shocking and asked if there's one guy within the Kentucky State police who somehow some way thought it was acceptable to include quotes from it off. learn from Robert E Lee, but even more shocking, perhaps there were dread, and twenty people at least who saw Hitler, quotes and presentations who were training. to be officers within baggy state, police and two didn't speak out: the bad bad who didn't fire him I miss, somehow went on in the culture accepted it fur.

couple years I understand that you have received her a type of honour from the state and that you're, a governors scholar in involves academic programme where you will meet the governor? Yes to the governor Skull programme in Kentucky is a sort of summer camp fur but, as I said, the best and brightest kids in Kentucky I applied for them. programme a couple days after the first articles published, I casually dropped as one of my chief. Hence the fact published that article that got the state police commissioner Andor resign right at the bottom of the resurrection, her if you do run into the governor. Governor Dollar programme, even keel, sneak into question

outside how's that I talked about him. Investigation go on, but I maybe so to get idea about sexual, and it was an honest to goodness pleasure Speaking with you think about it, followed up with Kentucky Governor Andy Bashir. He told us the Kentucky State police finished its internal investigation. Now all sworn personnel are required to purchase bake in new trainings about racism and have completed an online course about the Holocaust, After a review of all their training materials. They said they didn't find any more Hitler or Robert E Lee quotes

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Millions of people can soon be taken to court for failing to pay their red, but, as it turns out in some states, evictions had been happening all along, including in Ohio in Akron, one of the states largest cities at least seven hundred and eighty six evictions were granted from April of twenty twenty through MID June of this year. The hearings were held on Zoom in the magistrates running them were sometimes churning through fifteen or twenty cases a day. We're going to need to move quickly because I have multiple other hearings as our, so if we can get directly to the points that need to be made reveal. Fellow nor Hindi was watching, it was September of twenty twenty and then

Action rate in Akron was continuing to rise. I would wake up every morning at nine, a M open up my laptop and watch until about noon. The connections were spotty and often the renters didn't show up. The defendant is not resident. Is here today, as service of this type of action was proper egg is now tat. We will proceed in the asses. And when they did show up, it was almost always without a lawyer and without knowing their rights you know anything about what you're doing maybe I can help me to stay out money I can give you that advice. now, you may be able to answer one one. I dont know Miss Hindi. If you want,

refer him to anywhere. You know of any where he can go to Miss Hindi is nor him be whose joining me now in or hey ike. So this judge is asking you to give the man whose about to be effected, advice, yeah. It was really weird and sort of shocking because I had not been asked to speak during a court hearing before, but this may seem like he was really an nay panic and and didn't have a lot of resources available to him. So the magistrate did ask me to step in and help rebuild a hope yeah. So I visited him at his house.

Found out that he was senior citizens who was had been paying his right with social security for years, but he said that there was some kind of a glitch in the system and that his money wasn't coming in, and so he got behind on his rent and like a lot of people, I saw he didn't know about the moratorium, so this was happening a lot. I understand you watch a hundred and thirty two hearings in the full how many of those people were actually evicted about. Seventy percent of those hundred thirty two hearings were cases where people were evicted. An something I noticed is that most of these tenants showed up by themselves without a lawyer and on of that the hearings were really fast. Most of them were over and like ten minutes or less so imagine trying to represent yourself and that amount of time- and this is what happened

to this woman named Amber Morland. I thought that she would be the perfect candidate for this eviction moratorium and if it was gonna work for we want. It should have worked for her. What was it about her tat made her the perfect candidate so Amber is you know, thirty, nine years old, she's working a nursing home during the pandemic so she's, an essential worker and she'd lost part of her income because of the pandemic duplex, you should be covered its. aimed like it and that's why her case was so shocking to me to develop with her? I did. Is it your house, I you know Setteth aside cause. She wasn't home, putting my name and number and a few days later, she called me and she herself was really enraged at what had happened. Did you feel like you were able to testify properly now while she did not say so. I before we delve into the hearing, I

We just want to tell you a little bit more about who Amber is pleased to one of the first things to know. about Amber is she's working with some of the most vulnerable populations stirring the pandemic, and when I meet her in her home she's living in one of these houses. That really was kept up to date over the years and is there with her fifteen year old son. She loves his home at first and has this big backyard, it had a fire and outrageous, a clear open view in the back. But what I did I guess it was already needed to be re down she, soon realises that the house she lives and is made edged by a landlord and Akron who has a reputation for renting run down homes to low income. Tenants reaches be water coming here, not even drips. It was like literally water cannon

somewhere they look like about and was was crying in the hallway wars. Did the same thing she's living in this dilapidated house and kind of dealing with it men what happens so things escalate for amber at this point. The pandemic hits she's on the front lines she's watching covered rip through these nursing homes, and she says she was working in this lockdown word for covert patients just watching one after another die and at some point, the nursing home tells her she's not allowed to work at multiple facilities for fear of spreading the virus from one nursing home to the other was the pandemic happening, ah got porter. The nursing home, and they told me there are basically had to choose ah said my mother was at the nursing home at the time. Of course, I choose

see now so whom mom was living at one and the facilities that she was working at yeah, so This is made of twenty twenty Amber's MA. Is in hospice. She's got a lot of different illnesses, including a heart problem and a few Slater she dies in this is a big loss for amber. I could call Mamma and tell her about anybody. Of course, she would after me her talking jellyband event, but it was more or less like she was my actual Beth. I think this remembrance encapsulates Amber's love for her mom and how she really felt that this was.

her best friend and her rock in the world's. It was somebody that she could always lean on for support and humor and comfort. It was really hard for em her arm after her mom dies, but she keeps going and she knows she has to figure this out. She's, no longer working, multiple jobs, she's losing hours and money, so she's calling legal, age is calling to one one she's learning about the moratorium and that she can apply for rental assistance and she's off, calling homeless shelters because she's expecting at this point that she's gonna lose her home and even though she can't afford her full a hundred dollars a month of runs, she still making partial payments to Gary Thomas, he's listed as the property manager. While his son Lee is listed as the landlord as much as I could a major like if I got any peace, a change I gave it to mister gear after idea from our

I can never let me he is go without because we we ve been down arrow before so I'm a fee, Marquez information hides gas in the letter is only here before I give you something losing this we're. The moratorium should have kicked him for her right, but here's what happens instead, Mr Thomas and Miss Morland. Can you vote. Please raise your hands Miss Morland. Can you please raise your right hand them away? more and more from a former doesn't sound like she's off to a good start totally, and let me just stepped back and walk you through this. This is really high stakes and it's on

zoom and the magistrate is had one Zoom box, Gary's and another zoom box. His attorney is another zoom box and amber is alone talking to them through the speaker phone of the magistrates court phone. At this point, so you can't even see her and she can see them so Amber's come prepared, but she's having some problems which were plan for staying in her house. So what Amber is really trying to get across is that she's tried to apply for federal, Cares act. Funding cares act, that's the huge federal relief backer, true yeah and based on what I observe

during the hearings, rent hers either had to show that they'd applied for cares, act funding or they had to fill out this form through the cdc that basically stated they'd been impacted by the pandemic and they had to have given that to their landlord. But the problem is that some people either didn't know about that declaration form or didn't know about the assistance and they'd come to core and they'd get asked hey did you apply for assistance and they would say no, and they would explain that they have in fact been impacted by covered either through getting sick, or losing their job or getting there hours cut, but by that point it was too late, but an amber, case she really did try to apply for that funding. Do you have any application for rental assistance ending I really do have an application, and I hardly had I went through the here that programme or even pay up whenever I almost Gary and

I got an email from them. Acting this morning, they said my house was written with tee that I think, the right our assistance I got the right here, Emma them of bone, nor what's happening here. So this is something encountered a lot, but for Amber it's this really confusing and sort of pivotal moment. She's trying really hard to explain to the magistrate that she's tried to access funding but hasn't been able to and its because her landlord is not registered with the county,

The rental property is not registered, so cause heard landlord and register his house properly. Amber can't get federal assistance right end. The county instituted this rule, basically stating that, if you're not registered with the county, you cannot benefit from this federal funding, she's an essential worker who lost income during the pandemic, she's working with covert patients on top of that she's exactly the kind of person the CDC doesn't want ending up homeless, but you can't access this federal programme because her the landlord didn't filed the right paperwork. It ultimately ends up punishing amber, rather than penalizing the landlord who should have got an his registration and completed through the county. So

what happens so there's some quick back and forth. It's a really confusing moment Gary says he's never received any communication about the terrorist acts and the magistrate accepts his answer. Division of work that recent assessment that has been provided here today of restitution will be issued in favour of the plaintiff for failure to pay rents in less than ten minutes amber loses her home. The moratorium failed to protect her. Did you get to talk to Gary Thomas? I did I called Gary three times and he told me he'd had enough problems with the city of Akron and he wasn't interested in talking to us what about the magistrates

ask why they were evicting people who should have been covered by the moratorium. Yes and one of them. Magistrate Jennifer Towel, basically told me that the CDC moratorium was difficult to understand. It was left to local jurisdictions to interpret and it really didn't leave a lot of clarity on how to enforce said they're, not written the best way possible, as far as to the people that they have to apply them. So first, you know we have to interpret what our court. You know what our interpretation is and how we are going to move forward with that, and sometimes there's attorneys or let against you, maybe don't agree with the court's interpretation of it, which is what then their rights to be five understand the problem correctly. The CDC wanted to do this.

Off the inhumane, safe public health thing, which is protect tenets from eviction to stop the spread of covert when they actually went to write the moratorium throat it in such a way that in Akron at least magistrates had a lot of room to interpret what they meant in that in turn left some people out right and it just didn't provide a lot of structure and this really left court system. Out in terms of figuring out how they were going to do this, and it left tenants out and figuring out how they could access the moratorium and prevent their affection. and things were really messy for a really long time and it seemed like just as we were getting into the flow of use, This moratorium in a way that was uniform, landlord groups,

harder to sue, to stop the moratorium. Did the the landlord tried to suit the CDC over this moratorium? Yes, and actually last March, a federal judge in Cleveland ruled that the CDC went beyond what the public health this act allows it to do. He didn't go as far as to stop it, but this is so thing that landlords have argued all along, they say:

hurting too, because the aid they were supposed to receive was way too slow to come in and it may be brought funding and for three months, but there was no guarantee or consistency on how they were going to receive the next three months since the CDC plan was really well intentioned, but when it came down to it, it was confusing the magistrates confusing the landlords, confusing the tenants and also didn't offer Amber the protection she thought she had. What's what have been like for her since well, it's been about three months since cheese

then effect edge by she's done a pretty good job of landing on her feet. She found a new place to live. She kept on with her g and graduated and she continued with courses at Stark State College. It sounds like worked over Amber kind of surprising. It was totally expecting a happy ending so yeah she she does pretty well for herself, but you know that was the case for everyone. I would attend these hearings and then I would go visit people after their hearings that day and talk to them. Some were rushing to find a different play

to live, others were planning on splitting up their families, and you know living at different friends and families, homes, and I even remember one man telling me that he may end up living in his car. There were some more hopeful cases like Amber's, but for the most part, eviction is really destabilizing for families and households and almost everyone I spoke to worse scrambling to find a new place to live,

thanks so much for your pointing nor thanks for having me Ike that was nor Hindi who reported on this story for the Devil Strip and the home in Akron reporting collaboration. The story was produced by Amy Mustapha. Our next story takes us to Sacramento California, where cap radios, Sera, Miser, stand investigates another federal programme that was supposed to help people during the pandemic, the way that discrimination happens or racism happens is never by accident it's either by designed or its baked into the system. In our generation's through Listenin, to reveal

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supply, and you can text stop at any time again ex reveal to four seven four, seven, four seven thank you from the centre for investigate, reporting and key are acts. This is revealed, I'm Ike, sweets come the Rajah in four Allison We just heard about how the CDC eviction moratorium didn't halt all evictions during the pandemic, and it wasn't. The only federal plan D fell, short of helping the people it was supposed every Sunday about a hundred and fifty people would crowd into beat at church latino led congregation in North Sacramento calibre.

They heard, songs and sermons, and spanish and danish led by Pastor Alex but repeated church, those days like many places of worship, it didn't survived the pandemic. Your government was supposed to offer a safety net through the paycheck Protection programme, provide of hundreds of billions of dollars to small businesses. Earlier this year, review found that in major cities across the country, the rate of lending was higher in majority white neighborhoods than in neighborhoods of color. We shared or data with local reporters around the country, and so

Mises ten of CAP radio in Sacramento, found something else that, in her area, the disparity with even more pronounced for places of worship. Your Sarah. Our good it's a sunny Saturday in June. When I meet with Pastor Alex at this warehouse. a building where his church used to be registered he'll, because the last time I ve been here was when we were begin. Everything out, Rita church didn't only have services and also ran a food banks and held an annual harvest festival for the community. Now it's much quieter than it used to be passed. Her Alex just came back here to meet me

some of the dream that we had here, you know we really wanted to connect with the community's serve the community's need. You know a big part, if not the gist of our faith is to serve other people to love peoples people meet people where thereat show them the love of God in tangible ways. Not just you know, come to my church. This working class neighbourhood is called Old North Sacramento, some of the historic buildings from the nineteen

drugs are currently being revitalized, but it's also industrial with a number of vacant. Lots and abandoned buildings mixed in with a few houses. Latinos are the largest ethnic group. You know has been very underserved, been forgotten community for faster Alex. This place represented a special calling, an opportunity for his church to make an impact, but when the pandemic head pasture Alex had to stop holding services in person, no more community events either. So our budget just fill all the way. You know from down sixty per and then continue to go further. You try moving services online, but people didn't show many parishioners lost their jobs. The congregation stopped, giving the church lost it. beats was was devastating. It was very difficult because that's the biggest part of ministry, it's connected with their people. They know you're there big

go to you. For many new immigrants beat a church was a home away from home a place for them to get on their feet, so Parishioners, share, pastor, Alex's, sense of loss, Claudia Aromas, Chile, attended the church for thirteen years until a closed, the same feeling that I had leaving my family and my friend thirty years ago in El Salvador and feeling homesick about it. That's the way I felt it felt like. Well, I left my family from a girl. You know gather not to have that community with them, but veto church didn't have to close. The patient protection programme was supposed to help small businesses and nonprofits with fewer than five hundred employees, and that angle churches and other places of worship. The idea was to stabilize communities and keep people employed even when they were ordered to stay home. But when

looked at the Sacramento area, we found a huge disparity: twenty million dollars of government aid when two places of worship in majority white neighborhoods, that's three times as much as neighborhoods, that our majority people of color and that, despite the fact that Sacramento is but he evenly split in terms of racial diversity. The latino led veto, church and old North Sacramento. They didn't even apply Gabby Tray home an Sacramento area congregations together, a nonprofit interfaith organization, the let tee, no faith leaders they leave Smaller congregations in our having to be the ad man, the pastor, the counselor, that everything it might have been more difficult for them. to actually access these. These long term be thinking about those and ass. They were also serving families. individuals. She says a lot

Let me know, led congregations didn't have any one with the financial background to apply for the paycheck Protection programme, even though the application was fairly short to faster, Alex and other leaders black and latino and asian congregations, they were worried. It would be a complicated government programme, African Americans and Latinos, where the two racial groups most likely to lose their jobs during the pandemic, and so these congregation struggled as Patients dwindled, an parishioners lost their jobs. It is frustrating because when we look at the numbers of who I've got you owns, and we look at how latino faintly ears were left out in the Euro african american faith leaders were left out. She says the way the PPP money was handed out is just one more example of how unevenly resources have been distributed in the community.

earlier this year reveal uncovered many factors that fuelled these disparities for small businesses, many business owners and latino aid an african american communities lacked the computers and scanners they needed to send financial documents quickly to banks. Some this owners worried about taking out alone in the middle of an economic crisis, and there was confusion about whether the smallest businesses, those without employees qualified for PPP. This same can You should be extended to churches, it is disappointing and it is heartbreaking and the harm extends. Far beyond the closure of a place of worship. Gabby says religious institutions, especially in historically underserved neighborhoods, like Old North Sacramento, play a crucial role in keeping communities together when we think about what congregations bring to our community are faced. Leaders there in the tree, just listening to these stories day in and day out, right, like

really providing that that care. people, the spiritual care, while churches in latino neighborhoods we're shutting their doors, some places of worship in the cities, majority white neighborhoods were expanded, here in Rosemont, a middle class suburb. There are three lines: streets with detached single family homes and sprawling green lots at one of the churches. Here Christians under there's a big mountain right at the entrance Others day the music was literally booming of full brass band played during the morning service and doses, welcomed

people, Capital Christian Centre received one of the largest loans to any religious institution in Sacramento. One point: seven million dollars lane elves is one of the pastors here. She says alone with a huge help to the church in a lab to expand. Even during the pandemic, we hired a new worship leader during Kobe. He just started in February of this year. Actually, you know the churches here to support an all. Always we say were I've made up physically spirit. Finally, a socially and by academically they were even

the vote to open their private Kate through twelve school in person. That was a huge when, for US capital Christian is lucky. She says they used their loan money to grow, but also to continue their community service work like a monthly food drive. Their church had a whole financial team that managed its application for the paycheck Protection programme. They got their money quickly in the first round of federal funding early in the pandemic, and then what felt like another miracle for them. The loan was completely forgiven. All one point: seven million dollars: that's not unusual! A lot of businesses and organisations that got money from PPP didn't have to pay it back. I reached out to

small business administration, to ask them why more wasn't done to help faith communities of color? No one would talk to me, but I venture we received a statement which said the federal government is deeply committed to getting money to struggling small businesses. So then I reached out to the banks they handed out the government's money. Beth Mills is a spokesperson for the California Bank, association. I think, if you look actually you know the numbers and the support that our members gave to organization in a lot of these communities. Theirs in people who work the branches that are in these committees they live in the communities are very committed to supporting these community, so I dont think

that's represented an olive of the commitment that our banks have to these communities. I pressed her: if race isn't a factor, how could it be that churches and Sacramentos white neighborhoods got three times as much money as those were people of color make up the mud, already. I do wonder like is this just a definition of systemic racism, you know. I mean I think that Fortunately, maybe the applications didn't come in from certain ethnicities and you know so there might have been enough ministry that have more applications in the door than others did. that also speaks to care, arising at thanks intentions or with with respect to especially racism, if the banks say their serving these communities, why was there such a huge disparity in the loans

received. My name is fairly knuckle: insiders beneath all and an executive director of the California Reinvestment Coalition, fats and advocacy organization that provides banking support to communities of color. She says it's no coincidence that congregations in white neighborhoods got a lot more money for the paycheck protection program? You know this really is about the long history of relationships or a lack of relationships that financial institutions have had with black indigenous and people of color. She says that legacy of discrimination put a responsibility on banks. Today, the governments or banks will say that in all things just happened. An that there are not enough way the way that they design programmes, whether at the government level or at the financial institution level, and its away washing their hands of responsibility. The way that this

asian happens or racism happens is never by accident. It's either by designed or its baked into this stem fur. Generations You can see the impact of those disparities here in North Sacramento. We're veto church used to be four pastor, Alex standing in front of his shuddered church. The memories flood We use all that space for those large Halloween events we fill it would jump piles is, it was really need. Is people come out from all community and be able to? You know, hang out with that sort of thing lot of memories. Leader church is still broke their past. Her Alex is trying to get resources together, so they can begin to hold services first in people's homes and then hopefully, and a more permanent

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