Do The Golden Arches Bend Toward Justice?

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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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, we're taking a look at the surprising link between Black capitalism and McDonald's.

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0:00.0	Shrine. Yes, jean. What to meet me know I'm chomsky and believe how they all have a common hmm
0:08.0	They've all been critical of the police and the world of criminal justice system plays an American society
0:14.2	That's that's right
0:16.3	They all had been that was not where I was going with that, but that's a very very important and a stupid point
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0:34.2	April 15th that's this week
0:37.4	8 p.m. Eastern 5 p.m. Pacific
0:39.8	Mm-hmm. There will be music churrine will be dancing probably yes, I will be body rolling in my chair
0:44.7	Yes, sir. We'll have poetry and listen to questions and great conversations with great people
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1:05.2	I'll go on to the show
1:16.6	I'm Shrine Marisol Maraji. I'm Jean-Demby in this is code switch from NPR
1:22.4	Churrine you remember these old commercials?
1:26.0	I haven't seen him for a while wonder where he's here
1:29.2	I heard he got a job wonder where he's work. Welcome to McDonald's now
1:34.4	Oh my god, that is Calvin. Yes, he is burned into my brain. Calvin is a part of my coming of age story
1:42.6	Okay, okay, tell me what you remember about Calvin
1:46.0	Well, Calvin was the main character in a bunch of McDonald's commercials in the early 90s
1:52.7	He was from a neighborhood that had a lot of very cool brownstone
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