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Chris Hayes from MSNBC does an amazing job of pulling together all of the recent literature on poverty and race and distilling it into a discussion of how White America has colonized Black/Brown America from slavery to Jim Crow to redlining in real estate and bank loans, policing/taxing/fining "seedy" or uncomfortable parts of town that are simply disruptive rather than rule-breaking. White America uses the police to make things orderly, which may actually create over-policing of mino ...more
Chris Hayes from MSNBC does an amazing job of pulling together all of the recent literature on poverty and race and distilling it into a discussion of how White America has colonized Black/Brown America from slavery to Jim Crow to redlining in real estate and bank loans, policing/taxing/fining "seedy" or uncomfortable parts of town that are simply disruptive rather than rule-breaking. White America uses the police to make things orderly, which may actually create over-policing of mino ...more
