Podcast
By and for people of color, the Raci$m Is Profitable podcast is all about dismantling the assumptions that shape our lives — and limit our liberation. Your co-hosts, Jeremie Greer and Solana Rice, explore why racism is profitable in America and the economic, political, and popular culture structures that uphold systemic oppression. Guests include activists, policy advocates, and researchers who cut through the jargon and serve up straight talk that’ll put more power in your hands. Produced by Liberation in a Generation Action, we’re envisioning a new economy where people of color belong.
Big Tech Is Playing Us
How do tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Apple shape and exploit racial dynamics for profit? Our guest, Julia Rhodes Davis, joins hosts Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer to uncover the hidden ways tech giants influence our society and exploit bl...
Guaranteed Income and America's Poverty Choice
Jeremie and Solana chop it up about the manufactured chaos in Congress and looming shutdowns. Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, the first Black woman to represent New Jersey in Congress, joins to share her vision for the re-introduced Guaranteed...
The (Racist) Robots Are Already Here
LibGen Action Communications Director Devin Barrington-Ward joins Co-Executive Director Solana Rice to discuss the impact artificial intelligence and algorithms are already having on Black and brown communities – and what comes next....
Should We Take Our Money Out of Banks?
Why do rich white people and the financial institutions they run get to be wildly irresponsible while Black and brown folks are considered "too risky" for small-dollar loans? Is our money safe in banks? Jeremie and Solana break down the Silicon Valle...
DeSantis vs. Disney vs. The Rest of Us
In ultra-conservative Florida governor Ron DeSantis's war against Disney, there are no heroes. Jeremie and Solana discuss why DeSantis AND Disney are both still villains – and how real co-governance can help POC defend against them both....
Governance, Trust, and Anti-Blackness
It's safe to say the U.S. government doesn't really trust Black folks, and a lot of Black folks distrust it right back. LibGen Action's new Communications Director, Devin Barrington-Ward, joins the pod to discuss recent exposure of anti-Blacknes...
A Home of Our Own
Homes Guarantee campaign director and KC Tenants organizer Tara Raghuveer discusses how to bring *everyone* home in the richest country in the world....
The Midterms and Beyond
Maurice Mitchell of the Working Families Party joins the pod to break down the results of the 2022 midterm elections – and how to build durable power well beyond them....
Fed Up with Inflation (Bonus Episode)
Public defender Victoria Ruiz and The Sunrise Project's Jordan Haedtler join LibGen Grassroots Relationships Director Rubén Lucio to talk about inflation and why the Federal Reserve's response hasn't worked for poor communities of color. This special bon...
Political Power: Voting, Nonprofits, and Beyond
Jennifer Epps-Addison of Synergy Power Consulting stops by the pod to talk about building POC political power – both within and beyond elections and nonprofits....
Debt, Defund, and DeSantis
In this episode, we talk with Epiphany Summers of Dream Defenders about the anti-Black origins of student debt and the danger that Governor Ron DeSantis's war on Black Floridians poses to the whole country....
The Politics of Policing
Tracey Corder of the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) joins the pod to talk about the politics of policing, defund, abolition, and how they interact – and don’t – with elections and voting. She also makes a great argument for defund...
Battling on the Issues
In the opening episode of Season 2 of Racism Is Profitable, we're talking about electoral politics and the deep organizing and infrastructure required to win in and for our communities. Pablo Rodriguez of Communities for a New California joins us to&...
The Reflection Episode
For this bonus episode of Raci$m Is Profitable, Robert Reich joins the show to look back at earlier episodes and discuss the shared themes — and visions — that emerge. From redefining “belonging” to demanding that public dollars be equitably ...
Representation Is Not Enough: We Need Collective Governance
For this episode of Racism Is Profitable, we’re exploring governance. Run by corporations and elite policymakers who put markets above all else, our current economy is designed to exclude and literally kill us. Understandably, people of color have ...
Reclaiming Our Financial Power
In this episode, we’re examining credit and the oppressive narratives that limit our economic power. America loves to promote ideals like self-determination and choice, yet people of color literally and figuratively can't afford to risk much. And t...
We All Belong
From the constant villainization of undocumented people to the misguided belief that we have to earn our civil, political, and economic rights, the idea of citizenship comes down to who belongs and who doesn’t. While people of color are s...
Toxic Individualism Ain't It
On this episode of Raci$m Is Profitable, we’re talking about personal responsibility. You know, the idea that if you’re not right in the economy it’s because you’re doing something wrong. Endless political and policy decisions are rooted in this toxic ...
Whose Money? Our Money
We wanna talk about the fact that when it comes to money and paying for our fundamental needs in this country, scarcity is used as a racist lie. Yes, we should tax billionaires out of existence, but our government can afford nice things any...
Work and Your Worth
From the expectations of grind culture to an obsession with Black excellence, the oppression economy tells us that we’re only valued — and valuable — if we work hard and produce, produce, produce. Part of the same flawed belief system as person...
