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The Michael Steele Podcast

Quick Take: The Miseducation of the American Child

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Michael speaks with Kimberly Jones about her new book, "How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged." The pair discuss legacy wealth, where the U.S education system falls short, Reconstruction 2.0 and how we can begin to repair our unequal system.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Michael Steel Podcast listeners, Michael Steel here with another quick take from the

0:12.5

Michael Steel Podcast.

0:14.3

Check out what's going on right now.

0:16.9

Welcome back everybody.

0:19.0

Michael Steel having a fun time.

0:21.4

I knew I would.

0:22.3

I knew every time I'm in space with Kimberly Jones, it is.

0:27.3

It's real.

0:28.3

It's raw, it's honest.

0:31.2

Let's place a monopoly.

0:34.4

Let's get into the book because that really, as an analogy, is in many respects thematic

0:41.8

in the book about the monopoly board game which we're all familiar with, really boils down

0:49.7

to a couple of things, not only about ownership, getting as much property as you can, etc.

0:57.2

And a massing wealth, but how you play the game.

1:02.3

And so walk us through your thinking in using that as sort of the launch point for this

1:12.5

book.

1:13.5

You open it up with the idea that wealth is built through a home ownership and equity.

1:20.5

And if you don't have access to either, you're not in the game.

1:24.4

Take it from there.

1:25.4

Yeah, and it's funny because I think people forget that despite his racist roots, slavery,

1:35.0

a big chunk of slavery was an economic decision.

1:37.9

Yeah, it's driven by economics to keep it or to end it was driven by economics.

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