Fun fact - those are not entirely unrelated entities.
Credit scores actually help minorities.
The system didn’t really kick off in the US until 1989, which I’d guess is more recent than most realize. Until then, you had a sit-down with the bank officer and explained your need. How well do you think THAT went over for black people?
When you apply for credit, the creditor has no clue about race. (Your name can be an indicator. LOL, ask this white boy about getting trashed resumes until I dropped my “black” middle name. 🙄) You’re an anonymous number, all they care about. How in the world could you conflate that with racism?
So, if anything, credit scores clearly work against racism. You could argue that they hurt poor people, and you would be somewhat correct. But lenders aren’t exactly clamoring to loan money to the destitute. In a perfect world, your credit score reflects your ability to repay the loan.
Im glad you have found success with your credit score experiance.
On the other hand, Heres a paper reflecting on a few studies showing how credit scores can poorly affect minority communities.
In Cuyahoga County, there are significant disparities in credit health across neighborhoods. Communities of color have the lowest median credit scores, the highest percentage of individuals with subprime credit scores, and the highest share of individuals having debt in collections. On the other hand, majority white communities have the highest median credit scores, lowest percentage of individuals with subprime credit scores, and lowest share of individuals having debt in collections. These disparities are reflected in access to mortgages, mortgage denial rates, and arguably shape access to rental housing. Relying on credit scores and credit histories to determine access to rental housing and mortgages disparately impacts communities of color and helps exacerbate existing inequalities in the region.
And further
In practice, the reliance upon credit scores in evaluating borrowers and tenants disproportionately disadvantages communities of color, perpetuating another cycle of economic and housing injustice.
Proof or stfu
There is none. However, implying that race effects your credit score is in fact a pretty racist thing to say. Classic Marxist mentality.
The purpose of today’s credit score system is to eliminate bias. Before credit scores, borrowers were deemed creditworthy by lenders using factors such as income, referrals and even home visits. In 1974, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act disallowed credit-score systems from using information like sex, race, marital status, national origin and religion.
Today, FICO considers payment history, amounts owed, length of credit history, new credit and credit mix in its model. But that data may be influenced by generational wealth that many Black and Hispanic borrowers did not have equal access to, says Frederick Wherry, professor of sociology and director of the Dignity and Debt Network at Princeton University.
“We’re often told to stop talking about history, but history won’t stop talking about us,” Wherry says. “The data used in current credit scoring models are not neutral; it’s a mirror of inequalities from the past. By using this data we’re amplifying those inequalities today. It has striking effects on people’s life chances.”
The article you provided and states right there that those who do not have generational wealth don’t benefit from credit scores because several of the considered factors are things they don’t have.
I don’t know if I buy that they were created to reduce discrimination, but even if they were, it’s an incredibly flawed system.
If a person pays off a loan that is a good thing. That shouldn’t make tour credit score lower.
I paid off a loan and a card and consolidated my debt to a lower interest rate loan and my score dropped 20 points even though I had overall less debt and at a lower interest rate. All because the average age of my credit dropped.
They can’t provide proof because it’s blatantly untrue. Perhaps they propose going to back to in-person interviews to determine credit worthiness?
“John goes to my church, solid guy. Approved.”
“I’m sorry Jamal, maybe come back when you have lighter skin?”
Critical thinking skills and ability to do ones own research are essential life skills. But here ya go champ…
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/24/opinion/giving-credit-where-its-due/
https://medium.com/commonfuture/why-credit-scores-are-racist-da109fcfb300
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/11/how-structural-racism-plays-a-role-in-lowering-credit-scores.html
Problem is humanity can’t help but simp for ambitious men. Genghis Khan would have been nothing but a drunk horse rider if people didn’t go “yeah let’s do that”.
Look around how we simp for the billionaires now. This shit is genetic. Those who think differently tend to get themselves purged from the genepool too. “Heretic” n shit.
True but it also helps when everyone around you is a drunk horse rider, too. Unfortunately, these people don’t even need convincing to dot. They are of the same feather.
And total self-destruction through unmitigated greed
Hey I didn’t want this.
Well, paradise is not for everyone, so they recreated that from the model!
Well, we may have creative freedom, but most people have zero creativity.
Nah friend. Most people have some creativity and movtivation to do things. Most people just have to work all the time.
Nah i chose drugs and social inadequacy, pick your battles idiots
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