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Our Tax Code is Racist (w/ Dorothy A. Brown)

Our Tax Code is Racist (w/ Dorothy A. Brown)

FromThe Roxane Gay Agenda


Our Tax Code is Racist (w/ Dorothy A. Brown)

FromThe Roxane Gay Agenda

ratings:
Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Mar 8, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Dorothy Brown says she got into tax law precisely because it had nothing to do with race. After twenty years of research, Dorothy discovered—and this is going to shock you—the tax system is racist as hell. Roxane and Dorothy explore how the tax code caters to white Americans in almost every way, from home ownership to marriage. Plus, Roxane reflects on the collective responsibility of paying Uncle Sam.

Mentions:
●     Dorothy A. Brown: The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—and How We Can Fix It https://dorothyabrown.com/whiteness-of-wealth/

Credits: Curtis Fox is the producer. Yessenia Moreno is the intern. Production help from Kaitlyn Adams and Meg Pillow. Theme music by Taka Yasuzawa and Alex Sugiura.
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Released:
Mar 8, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (50)

Hear to Slay is the Black feminist podcast of your dreams—compelling conversations curated in only the way Black women can. Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom offer uncommonly incisive reads of the politics that shape the world we live in and the popular culture we consume. If you want to laugh as much as you want to be challenged, if you’re seriously smart but refuse to take yourself too seriously at all, come a little closer because we are here and hear, to slay.