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Ep. 47 Rachel Ferguson, Ph.D: Exclusion & Opportunity - Black Liberation Through the Marketplace

The Moral Imagination

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We Built America on the Back of Black Slavery

Ta-Nehisi Coates: We built America on the back of Black slavery. Well, guess what? A great way to build a country is for people to be free. And that's not what you allow people to do in a system of slavery or convict leasing. He says we agree with part of the 1916 project that extraction is unjust and evil. The problem is that this correct analysis gets combined with deeply flawed historical and economic errors which identify all kind of profit seeking enterprise with capitalism.

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