The Color Of Money

Mehrsa Baradaran's "The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap" — a lucid history showing how Black banks were promoted as a solution to racial inequality but could never succeed because they were asked to fix a problem created by systemic discrimination. Covers 5 use cases: ① Understanding the racial wealth gap — ("why is there a wealth gap" "black white wealth") ② History of Black banking in America — ("Black banks" "Freedman's Bank" "Black Wall Street") ③ How government policy created inequality — ("redlining" "discrimination" "housing policy") ④ Banking and economic justice — ("financial inclusion" "community banks" "fair lending") ⑤ The limits of self-help and entrepreneurship — ("Black capitalism" "buy Black" "economic empowerment") Trigger when users say: "racial wealth gap" "Black banks" "Mehrsa Baradaran" "Color of Money" "Freedman's Bank" "Black Wall Street" "redlining" "wealth inequality" "economic justice" "Black capitalism" "financial discrimination" "banking" "community development" "racial inequality" "systemic racism" "wealth gap" "economic history" Also triggers when the user says they just installed this skill or doesn't know how to start.

by @heardlyapp (Heardly)·MIT-0