Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151017:14:24:00
>> could it be race? >> could it be? in this country, race and racial privilege has trumped class identity as a way of organizing our politics. >> we could go way back if we're talking about capitalism in the first instance. the whole system globally was built on slavery. the modern economy was built -- was built on cotton which was built on financing, financing slaves. and so from that moment forward, we've been in a discussion about capit capitalism in the united states that has, in fact, sorted people by race. and you can't -- and so when we get back to sort of the public investments that w...
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