Plantation Capitalism

Great insights from the #SundayCivics podcast by L. Joy Williams:

“The great Reverend James Lawson gave us a powerful phrase for this.

I used to say predatory capitalism, but he frames it as plantation capitalism.

And he traced its roots back centuries.

He said it began with the seizure of indigenous land and then more than 250 years of slavery.

And continued through Jim Crow, where Black people were denied their labor, and shortchanged on their land.

And it continues today.”

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