Exclusions in the Social Contract: Eduardo Porter

OCCUPY!: An Unfinished Uprising · Dec 2, 2021 · 38m

Racism Bites Everybody

Creating racist policies and ideologies is short-sighted. In the long run, these practices affect everyone, including white people. In 1978, older white voters in California decided they didn't want their tax dollars going towards the funding of education for children who were increasingly non-white. To reflect this, Prop 13 capped property taxes and essentially led to a defunding of public education in the state, which families of every race and ethnicity rely on.

Intersectionality

History has shown that when the American social safety net becomes beneficial for people…