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453. A Rescue Plan for Black America

Freakonomics Radio

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The Great Migration by Charles Blow

Before the great migration, perhaps ninety per cent of black americans lived in the south. By nineteen seventy, that number had fallen to roughly fifty per cent. Charles blow's argument is that the experiment has failed. Hyper militaristic policing, predatory incarceration and the rebirth of a hate group movement are rendering destination cities unwelcoming, inhospitable and, in some cases, uninhabitable. In effect, black people could colonize and control the states they would have controlled if they had not fled them....

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