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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

The Whiteness of Wealth with Dorothy A. Brown

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

MS NOW, Chris Hayes

Msnbc, The Chris Hayes Podcast, Government, Politics, Chris Hayes, Why Is This Happening?, Withpod, Versant, Ms Now, News, Society & Culture, Versant Media

4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Racial hierarchy in America is deeply embedded in big structural institutions. From housing to criminal justice to education, there’s decades of scholarly work and research dissecting the lasting legacies of policies that disproportionately disenfranchise people of color. Now, tax law scholar Dorothy A. Brown has a mind-blowing new book about race and tax, uncovering the ways the tax code is constructed to build white wealth while impoverishing black Americans. In a conversation that is engaging, enlightening, and even laugh out loud funny (seriously), Brown lays out the culmination of her life’s work and explains why now could be the time to fix the system.

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When we think about the racial wealth gap,

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the statistic that has always been eye opening for me is

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a white high school dropout has more wealth than a black college graduate.

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That's when you realise something is wrong with the system for building wealth

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and it is not designed for black wealth.

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Hello and welcome to Wise This Happening With Me, your host Chris Hayes.

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This year, last year in American Life,

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as we're sort of watching the Derek Chauvin trial and the aftermath of

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racial struggle, protest, education, activism,

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organising that came in the wake of the death of George Floyd.

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