There's a tendency to conflate all of the different oppressed kinds of folks together, right, as people who just didn't have access. What is the effect of those people not being able to participate in the political process and shape the laws? And how that functions, what that does to people. So it's just really the impact of that over the over a long time.
The story of Bhagat Singh Thind, and also of Takao Ozawa – Asian immigrants who, in the 1920s, sought to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that they were white in order to gain American citizenship. Thind’s “bargain with white supremacy,” and the deeply revealing results.