Solana Rice of Liberation in a Generation Action joins former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich to discuss the horrific killings of unarmed Black people over the past three months — Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, and countless others who haven’t received media attention — which have ignited yet another outpouring of grief, anger, and frustration as Americans take to the streets to protest decades of harsh policing and unjust killings of Black Americans. Reich and Rice will also break down the May jobs report and examine the intersections between race and the economy, and how the racial wealth gap is as bad now as it was in 1968.
00:00:00 Welcome!
00:02:42 Black people face higher unemployment rates
00:05:08 Racism is profitable
00:07:30 What sectors of the economy exemplifies that racism is profitable?
00:09:05 Payday lending
00:12:28 How do we get from protests to politics?
00:16:47 What would Solana Rice say to Joe Biden?
00:20:02 How can we make actual progress for Black people?
00:23:40 Relationship between structural racism, change, and political power
00:26:07 How do we expose the reality of power and where racism is profitable?
