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Not a Riot: Race Massacres & Capitalism / Dre Cummings & Kalvin Graham

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🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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We welcome law scholars Dre Cummings and Kalvin Graham to talk about their work published in Tulsa Law Review about the relationship between race massacres and capitalism. We also have This Week in Rotten History, and more of your answers to this week's Question from Hell!

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No one knows how to love me.

0:02.0

What like we do.

0:04.0

No one knows how to love

0:06.0

keep I like you know.

0:08.0

No.

0:10.0

No one knows It's a good thing. Take a turn. Thank you. This is hell. live from the United States where the law has far too often been the crime.

0:48.0

This is how capitalism from its very outset has been a system of racial exploitation.

0:55.4

It depends upon an exploited labor class and in the United States that has meant African Americans

1:01.3

and the indigenous. Even prior to the United States

1:04.1

this racial capitalism laid the groundwork for global economic supremacy by the US. It was

1:09.6

also the foundation for the British Empire. The warm relations that exist today

1:14.4

are based on a shared history and current understanding of white supremacy.

1:19.2

Here in the states you can look back and find glaring and yes bloody and deadly examples of that racial capitalism

1:26.2

when African Americans not only pursued but were successful in attaining the American dream.

1:31.2

You can find that in race massacres that are far too often labeled

1:35.2

race riots in places like the 1921 mass killings on Tulsa's Black Wall Street

1:40.8

and in 1919 and in the fields of Elaine, Arkansas, where

1:45.0

sharecroppers were machine gunned down by federal troops only two years earlier.

1:51.0

To this day, that legacy of race massacres and the continuance of racial

1:55.0

capitalism continue to thwart attempts at black liberation and independence in a few

1:59.6

minutes. We will have the amazing opportunity to share an unvernished look at US history

2:05.8

and its methodical violence used to enforce the US brand of capitalism. When we speak with law scholars Andre Douglas Pond Cummings and Calvin Graham

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