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40 Acres: The old Jim Crow

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Developing a Constituency for Black People

I want to talk a little bit about black politics. After jim crow, you rigorously explained how jim crow was an organizing tool. But then you also say, despite this, black people have generally resisted elaborate programmes that work to subvert this kind of subordination. How do we know that? Luk, how do you knw that black people aren't interested in programs that target them? And programs that create separate development for their racial group? Well, i mean, movements for it have never got intraction right? Or if we think about just general calls for unity and revolution like has that not worked a kind of organized black people? No, not really.

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