This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Friday, May 20th, 2022.

I'm Caleb Brown.

What contributions do classical liberals have to offer in attempting to heal racial pain

and divisions in the US and make good on the

promise for government to do right by all of its citizens. Rachel Ferguson is

co-author of the new book Black Liberation Through the Marketplace, we spoke this

week. Shortly after Brianna Taylor was

killed in Louisville. I lived just outside of Louisville. My friend who writes columns in a local

paper was having a question about well you know what should I write about in response

to this and one of my thoughts was well there are a lot of different promises that America makes to people, and particularly

in the black community, it doesn't seem like those promises have been followed through on at least if you're looking at it from the outside in you say well these a whole lot of these people are being treated very poorly in a way that appears to exist in a consistent way.

And my suggestion to him was, if you want these promises to appear credible to this community, that is, you know, life,

liberty, pursuit of happiness and on all of the things that that entails by creating a legal

system to create those things. If you want those promises to appear credible to that community,

it would really help if they actually were credible. So you've written this book that I think

takes that in a pretty systematic way and breaks down what the failures are in sort of the American promise.

Yeah, that's right and I actually love that story. That's a really good way of presenting

exactly what we want to do here. You know, we can go on and on about the

wonders of the American founding and the brilliance of our Constitution, both of which I totally agree with,

but we, as you said, will have no credibility

with certain communities if we do not very clearly

acknowledge the ways in which they were not allowed to benefit from the things

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