Why FOIA is Valuable/Important

It is important that we have access to the FOIA information to know the what went on behind the scene of a person on incident good or bad. This information is valuable for the fact that looking outside in you are clearly not going to know the whole story. FOIA wants to know the good the bad and the ugly, and makes it their business to find all that out even if they block all the information from the public.

As I browsed through the names in the FOIA file I stumbled across the gangster disciples. They first caught my attention because of the information I read the gang being based in Chicago, Illinois so that immediately intrigued by the topic at hand. I feel as though the gangster disciples were highlighted because it is one of the oldest street gangs in Chicago as well as one of the four major gangs in the city. This infromation would be valuable to the FOIA because when it come to street gangs alot of illegal activities go down as far as drugs and murder and that's when the FBI comes in to play.

Color of Money

The series of articles pertaining to color of money is important because it soul purpose is to inform the world how strong racial discrepancies still exist in today’s society. The spotlight is being shined on the city of Atlanta where we have been informed on their discrimination, and redlining of black people period, and in the black community. The banks seem to have little problem giving out loans to white people, but when it came to black people who some had even given years of their business to the bank they couldn’t even get a dime. In the reading when what was done in the dark came to light plenty of the bankers wanted to deny the clear fact of what was going on. They acted as if French was being spoke like they knew know such thing of the turning down of black people for loans. The statistics don’t lye either showing the percentage rates, and loan ratio from the banks in Atlanta comparing and contrasting u can clearly see the difference, and in my opinion there is no justification for that. The banks were denying blacks’ loans as if they asked them to write a check out of their personal check book. My biggest question is what’s the big idea? A loan is money that I guarantee will be paid back and for a bank to deny a person a loan just because of the color of their skin says a lot about a person. Can someone remind me again the color of money because last I recall it wasn’t white?