(Originally aired July 14, 2021)

Did you know if you live in the United States of America, you too have benefited from the 250 years that enslaved people were forced to work without pay? Yes, even if your families didn’t own slaves, even if you are recent immigrants, 

Here's why. The American economy was built on free slave labor and neither they nor their ancestors have ever been compensated for it. 

Even after emancipation, formerly enslaved people and their descendants faced unimaginable violence, discrimination, and inequity that has been passed from one generation to the next. 

For example, the racist practice of redlining was once a legal government policy which allowed lenders to reject mortgages for Black people. One result of all this? Today, white Americans have seven times the wealth, on average, of Black American

Racism within the criminal justice system and huge racial wealth gap show that white Americans, for the most part unwittingly, continue to reap the benefits of slavery and its legacy.

With that being said, you'll be surprised to find out why reparations will never happen without this, on the next episode of Selling Sacramento.

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