Black Liberation Through the Marketplace

Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America

De: Marcus M. Witcher, Rachel S. Ferguson

Narrado por: Andrea Gallo

If we face America’s racial history squarely, will it mean that the American project is a failure? Conversely, if we think the American project is a worthy endeavor, do we have to lie, downplay, or equivocate about our past?

In this book, we use the classical liberal lens to ask Americans on the political right to seriously reckon with America’s deep racial pain—much of which arises from violations of rights that conservatives say they deeply value. We ask those on the left to take a hard look at the failed paternalism, and in some cases, thoroughgoing racism of past progressive policy. All Americans are asked to apply their concern for individual rights and constitutional order fairly to our historical record. What listeners will find are deep injustices against black Americans. But they will also find black entrepreneurs overcoming amazing obstacles and a black community that has created flourishing institutions and culture.

Exhausted by extremism on both left and right, a majority of Americans—black and white—love this country and want to do right by all of its citizens. In Black Liberation Through the Marketplace, listeners will come away with a better understanding of black history and creative ideas for how to make this nation truly one with liberty and justice for all.

©2022 Rachel S. Ferguson (P)2022 Recorded Books

Small Government Benefits Blacks

Amazing book making the case that government intervention has been harmful to blacks, and private property rights have been helpful.

Conversation piece

Their book is a conservative "classic liberal" attempt to take the history of black disenfranchisement seriously and propose thoughtful color blind,.not class blind, market solutions. The distinction between a liberal market economy and "crony" capitalism is very well made. They use CRT as a straw in a way that is distracting. Their commitment to classic liberalism prevents them from integrating theories of systemic racism into their argument, even when they provide substantive evidence to support its existence.

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An extraordinarily important book. Confronts the reader with the reality of state-sponsored racism while lifting up the promise of the American project and its essential institutions. A challenging but rewarding read for both left and right.