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426. Should America (and FIFA) Pay Reparations?

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The Color of Law by Richard Rostein - The History of the Black White Wealth Cap

The origins of the black white wealth cap plainly date back to slavery. But that history of racial disparity as it relates to wealth building certainly didn't end with slavery. There was a system of share cropping. There's a system of jim crow. There is a system of red lining. It was government facilitated. Government sponsored segregation in housing, what came to be called red lining goes back to the great depression and the new deal....

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