You guys are arguing with someone that asked what does redlining have to do with today. The jig is up. It's wasted effort going back and forth with someone like that.
That's a lie - the argument was that redlining ALONE made baltimore's inner cities look that way; arguing that the crack epidemic and welfare played no parts in that is fundamentally wrong.
and I conceded that yes redlining paved the way for those other issues.