Kemetstry,
Your conclusion is off. You offer no details, no company names and no executives. Just an all encompassing collective attack on one race. But It was not just White people.
Most remember that Stanley O'Neal, the acerbic Black CEO of Merrill Lynch & Co., led that storied mortgage lender right into disrepute as one of the banks responsible for the sub-prime loan crisis.
There were many others. Countrywide Financial Corp. packaged many mortgage loans which were offered to people who had no way of paying them back. Bank of America ended up buying Countrywide for $4 billion, one sixth of what the lender was worth before the crisis.
Others were deep into the credit-default swaps. It's not that White people didn't know how to fix it. George W. Bush simply wasn't up to the task and had no idea how to end what became known as the Great Recession. Everyone who understood Wall Street financing and banking knew it would take time and a lot of money to save teetering financial institutions.
There was several hundred stories written about the financial crisis. And players of other races who were guilty as well. There were also different factors contributing to the crisis.
Companies were shutting down left and right and it seemed the downturn would never end. In fact, a group of enterprising individuals came up with a great Internet moniker for the ages and that terrible time: "f*ckedcompany dot com. I know, they called me a couple of times.
The U.S. financial system was on the verge of complete collapse as Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and once mighty mortgage guarantor American International Group has to be sold to the Federal Reserve Bank for $85 billion. Washington Mutual bank went belly-up. Hundreds of billions of dollars to be given to banks to keep them solvent. Things got so bad that stalwart Wall Street bankers Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs decided to become regular banks to be protected by the Fed.
While President Obama is rightfully given credit for saving the U.S. from a depression, he did not do this overnight. Obama saved the U.S. auto industry for sure by bailing out General Motors. Ford and Chrysler. And he approved a $787 billion economic stimulus package. However, most of the hundreds of billions needed to save banks and the bond industry were handed out before Obama became President.
And it took time for the U.S. economy to recover and it began to just before the last year of Obama's first term. There is no doubt people in the U.S. and around the world were soothed by Obama's measured speeches and his calm demeanor.