Chapter 131: Transferring Money in the Name of Freedom

At first, Congressman Mike Bradley couldn't understand why, as a Black man who intended to be a voice for his Black brethren, he was being resisted, cursed, and viciously criticized by them.

Those angry Black folks showed up near his home, near his child's school, hurling racial insults at him and his family, the kind of slurs that not even white people had ever directed at them. They even questioned why he was trying to deprive them of their right to be exploited by predatory lenders.

The preliminary investigation report submitted to the committee by the FBI was shocking. Many Black people taking out loans ended up engaging in illegal business, which too often resulted in their bodies lying dead in the streets. Moreover, the FBI reported encountering resistance when investigating the senior executives of KeyBank, who displayed quite severe opposition.