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Published on: 7/3/2008
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Gloria J. Sweet-Love, president of the Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, comments about discriminatory mortgage lending during a press conference Wednesday morning at Jackson City Hall. KATIE MORGAN /The Jackson Sun | More
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Gloria J. Sweet-Love, president of the Tennessee State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the lenders who have practiced discrimination should "make amends for discriminating against African-American borrowers and eliminate discriminatory policies and practices for good.
"According to the NAACP and its lawsuit (filed last July) against 17 major lenders, the NAACP said that African-American borrowers were given loans with higher interest rates and other poor terms solely because of their race," Sweet-Love said at a press conference in City Hall in Jackson."The Day of Action is marked by events across the country, including in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit and Seattle."
Sweet-Love added, "NAACP leaders, other officials and community members (held) events at lending institutions and in affected neighborhoods to highlight the pervasive and systemic discrimination against African Americans within the mortgage industry and to demand an end to it."
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Gloria J. Sweet-Love, president of the Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, comments about discriminatory mortgage lending during a press conference Wednesday morning at Jackson City Hall.
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Gloria J. Sweet-Love, president of the Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, comments about discriminatory mortgage lending during a press conference Wednesday morning at Jackson City Hall. (KATIE MORGAN /The Jackson Sun)