The bacon fat theory of school segregation, and some White House chaos

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Education, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Ezra, Sarah and Alvin Chang talk about the quiet return of segregation in schools, chaos in the Trump White House, and taxing marijuana. Links!The Washington Post article on school desegregation and the Supreme Court.Alvin's piece on school desegregation and gerrymanderingAlvin's article on living in poor neighborhoodsAlvin's article on white America self-segregatingAlvin's piece on Obamacare repeal splitting neighborhoods Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is Alvin here?
0:01.0	Yep, I'm here.
0:02.0	No, no, but is he like...
0:03.2	They don't hear me.
0:04.2	I'm not hearing anything.
0:05.6	This is literally like listening to the weeds.
0:21.5	Hello and welcome to the weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:25.3	I am Sarah Cliff.
0:26.3	I'm here as usual with my co-host, Ezra Klein.
0:29.4	Matt Iglesias is somewhere in Maine on vacation in the land of Susan Collins.
0:34.6	I'm Grousey, he used to hearing Matt say, hello and welcome to the weeds.
0:37.3	It was.
0:38.4	It felt a little odd to do it, but we have to soldier on without Matt and...
0:42.1	You did a great job.
0:42.9	Thank you.
0:43.7	We have one of our really brilliant colleagues, Alvin Chang,
0:46.9	who's here with us, who you might recognize from his fantastic visual explainers on Vox,
0:52.4	which get into a lot of weezy issues about integration and the history of home ownership policy.
0:59.4	And we wanted to bring them on because he had this really fantastic piece last week about segregation
1:04.4	in schools and how school segregation has quietly come back into our education system.
1:10.8	So we'll talk about a few other topics later.
1:13.0	We are going to get into the...
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