Black Capitalism Can’t Fix Racial Wealth Gap

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford

14 Aug 2018

🖨️ Print Article

Black banks are useful and should be supported, but only some form of reparations can confront the disastrous Black economic condition, said Mehrsa Baradaran, author of “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap.” Black capitalism can’t fix the ills that generations of public policy created, said Mehrsa, who teaches banking law at the University of Georgia.

black wealth

More Stories

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democrats Exposed By the End of Roe v. Wade
29 Jun 2022
The full extent of Democratic Party treachery was exposed when the Roe v. Wade decision was overturned. Only right wing Americans have any expectation of getting what they want from the electoral…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Revolution: It’s Not Easy, Quick, or Pretty, Pat Parker, 1980
29 Jun 2022
A 1980 speech by Black lesbian poet and activist Pat Parker provides a feminist, anti-imperialist blueprint for the present.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethnic Violence Plagues Ethiopia Near its Mighty New Dam
29 Jun 2022
Conflict in Ethiopia continues to claim the lives of many civilians, as recently happened in the Wellega region.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Drunken Count Ghouliani/low Barr-Boss Tweet revealing irreparable rot of capitalism…
29 Jun 2022
Drunken Count Ghouliani/low Barr-Boss Tweet revealing irreparable rot of capitalism…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Robtel Neajai Pailey’s “Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa”
29 Jun 2022
This week’s featured author is Robtel Neajai Pailey. Pailey is Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her book is…

Related Podcasts

More Stories