Roland Martin
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Black Tax Dollars Helped Build White Prosperity During Jim Crow #shorts
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August 2, 2026
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0:42Now PlayingRoland Martin explains how Black Americans spent decades paying taxes into public systems that refused to serve Black communities equally.
During Jim Crow, Black people paid property taxes, income taxes and sales taxes while racist government policy denied them adequate roads, bridges, schools and other public services.
Martin argues that white communities were able to prosper because they benefited from tax revenue collected from Black Americans who received virtually no return from the system they helped finance.
Black tax dollars helped build white prosperity while Black communities were systematically denied the benefits.
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