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The Racist Roots of America’s Incarceration and Immigration Laws

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Are White Men an Internal Racial Threat to White America?

After the Civil War, more and more white men were dispossessed of land. These men become the quote, wandering poor, the so-called tramps and hobos. They migrate across the Midwest and into the American West to work in seasonal industries. And they are regarded as an internal racial threat to white America.

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