Bonus: Do The Golden Arches Bend Toward Justice?

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.7 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week we're featuring an episode from Code Switch, Do The Golden Arches Bend Toward Justice?. Calls for racial justice are met with a lot of different proposals, but one of the loudest and most enduring is to invest in Black businesses. But can "buying Black" actually do anything to mitigate racism? To find out, they taking a look at the surprising link between Black capitalism and McDonald's.

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0:00.0	Hey, Rampteen.
0:02.0	Hey, Ron.
0:03.0	So, another series in the books.
0:06.0	Another day?
0:07.0	Another dollar?
0:08.0	How fitting for the end of our capitalism series, right?
0:10.0	So, you know, last week we came out with a third and final installment of our series on capitalism.
0:15.0	If you haven't heard it all, go check it out.
0:18.0	And honestly, it feels like we could have done at least three more episodes, like maybe 30 more.
0:23.0	I know.
0:24.0	It's like we just scratched the surface.
0:26.0	And it's definitely a topic we're going to return to since there's so much more to do.
0:31.0	But because we can't get capitalism out of our system, like literally no joke,
0:36.0	we want to share an episode that our fam over at CodeSwitch dropped a few months ago that goes really well with our series.
0:42.0	Yeah, this episode came out back in April.
0:44.0	And it's not just about capitalism.
0:46.0	It's about black capitalism.
0:49.0	And McDonald's.
0:50.0	I don't even want to say any more about it.
0:52.0	I don't want to spoil it, just that it really adds an interesting perspective on how our economic system shapes our lives.
0:59.0	And the impact of capitalism on black communities, seen through one iconic American business.
1:06.0	This is a really great one from CodeSwitch everyone.
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