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Race for Profit with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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The Problem With Rats in Black Communities

Home as a source of comfort, as a sigt of communion, that has nothing to do with it. This is about pure extraction. And so much of black housing is viewed in this way,. which is whyu tha, the problem with rats was not, you know, some sort of that no one knew about until all of a sudden there were ratsaThis was widely understood. It's based in the same a twentieth century, a hundred year ago, ideas that black people are dirty and sub standard conditions must be avoided.

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