Until just the last 50 years ago or so, our laws and institutions were explicitly racist, explicitly discriminatory.
Jamie Raskin: “Until just the last 50 years ago or so, our laws and institutions were explicitly racist, explicitly discriminatory.”
On the recordJuly 27, 2020
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Raskin reflects on the historical racism in U.S. laws and institutions.
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