6. How America’s Racist Roots Fueled a Predatory Bail Bond Industry, with Tricia Cleppe
Financial Feminist
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The Concept of Race and White Supremacy
The aristocracy decided we'll give them just enough for them to help them feel superior over that group. And so they started giving poor white small parcels of land. They started giving poor whites access to certain parts of society and culture that they were restricting from the others. That's really where the concept of race like bloomed and was first codified into law. But it was all made up. The top people decided that they wanted to make sure people that had more in common than in conflict were given an ability to have more in conflict than they have in common with those people. It's all that is what the whole concept of white supremacy relies on.
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