Adam Conover: You can't tell the American story without confronting our country's legacy of racism. Racism is still with us folks, but even if we had somehow eliminated it a couple decades ago, we'd still be left living in a society shaped by policies created by racists and for racist purposes. This episode is sponsored by Custom Inc.
MacArthur fellow and UCLA professor, Kelly Lytle Hernández, joins Adam to explain how explictly racist policies of the past created the incarceration and immigration systems we still have today.
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