Hello and welcome to

So good to see it's no no no yes mersse introduce yourself. I am mersa baradiron. I am the author of most recently the color of money black banks and the racial

wealth gap and I'm also a professor of law at the University of Georgia and so we

are going to have a whole color of money addition in honor of massive

around we are going to talk about black banking we are going to talk about

black wealth we're going to talk about reparations we're going to talk about reparations we're going to talk about

opportunity zones we're going to talk about history we are going to put this all in

context we are going to go back centuries we are going to talk about Haiti we

are going to talk you have no idea how much

amazing knowledge is going to get dropped in a relatively short podcast. This is

going to be dense fun, interesting. It's going to be not just Measser but it's going to be dense, fun, interesting.

It's going to be not just me as a matter, but it's going to be me.

I should introduce myself.

I am Felix Simon of Axios.

It is going to be Anna Shimanski.

And also Emily Peck of the Huffington Post. And all of this is going to be coming up right here on slate money.

So let's start with your book which has been out for a while and everyone has read it already but for those people who haven't read it already what's it called?

It's called the color of money black banks and the racial wealth gap.

And this is an amazing history of black banking in America,

and not just black banking, but also just the way that African Americans found it incredibly hard to hold on to their

money and they tried to create their own banks which you would think would help them

hold on to their money but it didn't really work out that way.

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