Larry Lessig On How The “Tyrannical” US Gov't Oppresses Black Americans. Int. w/ Cenk Uygur (edited)

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Published on Oct 23, 2015
What does the campaign to end money’s corrosive influence over our government have to do with the #BlackLivesMatter movement? Everything, says upstart presidential candidate Larry Lessig.

In this edited portion of an hour-long interview with The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur, Lessig explains how the horrific history and ongoing mistreatment of African-Americans relates directly to the way government is funded, and how Ferguson, Missouri is a perfect example of the regressive practice of “taxation through citation.”