Passive language protects financial institutions from accountability for systemic inequality
Rashad Robinson · Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson · Aug 26, 2021 · at 9:39
Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, explains to Guy Raz how language and narrative framing dictate whether people pursue individualistic or structural solutions to racial inequality.
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“When you say black people are less likely to get loans from the bank, people ask themselves, well, what's wrong with black people? Maybe we should give them financial literacy. If we say, you know, banks are less likely to give loans to black people, then we ask ourselves, what's wrong with the banks? And so we don't need financial literacy to help black people do better inside of institutions which have targeted, exploited, and redlined us since almost their very beginning. We actually need structural change.”
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