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@Margaret Baddelachs: are those hypotheticals, or do you actually have data supporting that discrimination is not a factor in the situations you cited? Just taking one of those examples, there are studies that show redlining and federally sanctioned discrimination against minority neighborhoods still has an effect on how accessible mortgages are in communities today. Do you think the government doesn’t have an obligation to fix this problem that it contributed heavily to? And once we adjust for income, do you think, “well, that’s that!” Or do we/our government have an obligation to understand why there are such differences in income (hint: centuries of racial discrimination and denied opportunity based on race) and figure out ways to even the playing field? Is that what you mean by the government doesn’t need to ensure “even stevens”—if they aren’t actively discriminating now (which is certainly debatable, but for the sake of argument) is that enough? No need to correct the effects of previous egregious inequality?