Systemic Racism in the United States

Systemic racism in the United States did not end with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862. Four hundred years after the first slave was brought to United States, discriminatory practices remain. Discussed in this episode: The Jim Crow Laws, discriminatory Black Codes, Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow," housing discrimination (Redlining), The War on Drugs, discriminatory practices of the Nixon and Reagan Administrations, mass incarceration, Killer Mike's "Reagan," Gang Starr's "Conspiracy," the economics of public and private prisons, unfair policing and sentencing of African Americans, and the Black Lives Matter movement.

 

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