What's good y'all, you're listening to Code Switch, I'm Gene Demby.

And I'm Lori Lissarraga.

And on this episode, we are talking taxes.

Oh, taxes.

They're ridiculous, they're complicated.

And to be honest, Gene, they're kind of scary.

Listen, listen.

I keep thinking about that viral tweet that goes up in my life.

My son asked me to explain taxes, so I gave him a bag of Eminums and told him that he

has to give me some of those Eminums.

And I know how many of those he has to give me.

But he has to guess himself.

And if he gets his wrong, he goes to prison.

Which is a fun way to explain taxes is candy and prison as prison.

Like I said, Lori, taxes are ridiculous, they're scary.

But this is Code Switch, maybe.

What do taxes have to do with race and identity, right?

Well, as it turns out, condo everything.

Yeah.

And on the show, we're going to get into how our tax system has benefited white people,

how it's hurt black folks.

And we're going to talk to the person who helped uncover how race in all these ways we

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