We cannot talk about education as a cure to Jim Crow when it is not Black, Brown, or Native people who need to be educated out of a wealth gap. Policy created this. Policy needs to solve it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “We cannot talk about education as a cure to Jim Crow when it is not Black, Brown, or Native people who need to be…”
On the recordMarch 9, 2021
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Ocasio-Cortez argues that education alone cannot address the wealth gap caused by historical policies.
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