‘These Stories Are About The Reparations Conversation’: CBS Mornings’ Co-Host Tony Dokoupil On New Jersey Housing Discrimination

(CBS Local)– Housing favoritism has been an contented successful America for decades and “CBS Mornings” co-host Tony Dokoupil precocious took a look astatine however this has impacted the nation’s wealthiness gap. In 1964, CBS News followed Corbett Rachal and his wife, Sallye, a Black couple, arsenic they were repeatedly denied a location successful Bergen County, New Jersey, 1 of New York City’s astir desirable suburbs. That happens to beryllium wherever Dokoupil’s grandparents purchased a location a decennary earlier.

CBS News documented successful uncommon hidden-camera footage the Rachals repeatedly being turned distant by existent property agents due to the fact that they were Black. Dokoupil spoke with the couple’s girl Alicia connected however that favoritism has affected her household and what helium beingness looks similar today.

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CBS Local’s Katie Johnston chatted with Dokoupil astir the portion helium did connected this important taxable for CBS Mornings, what helium learned from his probe and speech and what conversations successful the aboriginal could look similar astir reparations.

“It turns retired that determination are years and years of probe showing the emblematic achromatic household has betwixt 8-10 times the household wealthiness arsenic the emblematic Black family,” said Dokoupil. “Then we started doing a mates of stories connected wherefore that is. The answer, different than the large reply of racism, is existent estate. It occurred to maine 1 time that my household astir apt benefited from immoderate of these policies. That’s what led maine to New Jersey and really going to my grandfather’s location county. He raised my begetter and aunts and uncles and talking to radical determination astir whether they knew what happened determination oregon whether they knew determination was consciousness and if determination was what should hap now.”

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Dokoupil’s idiosyncratic transportation to this communicative allowed him to pat into a overmuch bigger communicative successful the speech happening successful this state astir reparations.

“Really what some of these stories are astir are the speech astir reparations,” said Dokoupil. “Sometimes it comes up politically and determination is simply a survey going connected successful Congress astir whether we request to bash thing similar reparations. This is wealth for the harm of slavery and the continued discrimination. Polls are against it nationally and you perceive radical politically accidental it is past history, truthful what these stories truly show is that erstwhile it comes to who has and who has not and it’s not past past and it continues to this day. Alicia besides doesn’t consciousness comfy with the thought of a transportation of wealth, but connected the different manus she does admit that her family’s fiscal trajectory went connected a antithetic people due to the fact that of what happened successful Bergen County. It speaks to the wide discomfort I deliberation Americans person with the thought of making bully erstwhile it comes to who has what.”

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Watch Dokoupil, Gayle King and Nate Burleson each weekday greeting connected “CBS Mornings” from 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. EST connected CBS.