Episode 08: TRICK OR TREAT-Eugenics Past and Present In America

The United States has a long history of trying to control “undesirable populations” through forced sterilization, and thanks to whistleblower Dawn Wooten, ICE has made the news using the same tactic on migrant women. In this special Halloween episode of Let’s Talk About Race, our Journalists document the horrific trick-or-treat of incentivized sterilization for poor and incarcerated minorities and trace the long sordid history of eugenics in America. 73% of white Christians believe that police violence against African Americans happens as isolated events rather than being a systemic problem, and in this Faith Report, Nia Gray takes a glimpse at how this worldview is contrary to their own doctrine. Lastly, the evolution of slavery into the American racial hierarchy is the subject of Book Love’s latest review in the non-fiction work Caste by Isabel Wilkerson.