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Zack Geist: Dispelling the Mystery of Debt (E41)

A New and Ancient Story: The Podcast

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The African Slavery Debt

The way that human beings have evolved is in giving gift and being indebted to one another. And i think maybe that's why the african slave trade was not, when it was in africa, wasn't as brutal. So then when the slave trade came to this country, it the the, the slavery debt thing, a was wedded to white supremacy and manifest destiny mind set and and basically raceism. I mean, slaveryis bad enough by itself, but slavery plus raceism led to one of the most brutal systems that’s ever been on this earth, totally.

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