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453. A Rescue Plan for Black America

Freakonomics Radio

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White Women's Soft Power - The Activation of White Supremacy

Blow: White moderates in the north and west plead their desire to be better allies, but they refuse to recognize that the system uses their very presence as a weapon. They focus on mitigating the impact of white supremacy rather than eradicating it. In its worst form, this misdirected milk toast, nursing and nannying tries to fix people, black people, with whom there is nothing wrong other than being trapped in waste lands of despair," she says....

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