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453. A Rescue Plan for Black America

Freakonomics Radio

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Battling Raceism in This Country Is Like Cutting Heads Off the Hydra

Battling raceism in this country is like cutting heads off the hydra. There's just so little that the federal government can do on those big things, mass carceration or community policing. On the health front, handsdown, obomacar is hugely important for black people but it doesn't get fully utilized because most of them have republican nors who refuse to take the money to expand medicade. So he does things, but i wasn't expecting him to solve american raceism before eight years....

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