"Wealth is where history shows up in your wallet." Heather McGhee on redlining and the history of racial wealth disparities

@hmcghee Black banks redlined black people White banks redlined white people It was based on economics not race. When it comes to making money, and capitalism, the dollar is king

@hmcghee yah she certainly looks oppressed to me. this is just race hustler stuff. the Daily Show panders to this while ignoring the real problems facing the black community.

@hmcghee Heather is a gd national treasure!

@hmcghee To use redlining as an explanation for why wealth disparity continues, you must explain why other communities (East Indian, Asians, Jewish)-- who also started in poor neighborhoods-- have on average surpassed whites in wealth.

@hmcghee The wildest thing about what McGee is teaching us here is that it WASN'T slavery that created the big wealth gap (as one might guess.) Nope. It was the systemic racism of the 20th century, when the average wealth increased a great deal...but blacks were deliberately excluded.

@hmcghee The 1%

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Is Al Franken going to be playing with boobs on camera? He’ll certainly be talking with boobs.

@hmcghee ..and this racial inequity is surprising to whom. The WPA or New Deal programs were made during the 30's. Segregation was status quo and KKK hate was within the Whitehouse.

@hmcghee So informative