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Eat The Rich

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Slideshow Icon1 of 2Art by Qieer Wang.
Credit: Qieer Wang

The summer of 2020 a lot of folks were asking this question: what should we do? The layered crises of a pandemic, unemployment, and police-sanctioned violence against Black folks left many anxiously searching for some sort of action to take. For a couple of young Black people in Vermont, their action was to try to collect a debt. What resulted was a social experiment with money, focused around a contentious topic: reparations. What happens when you demand white people give up their wealth?

Special thanks to the following musicians:

Infinity Knives (theme music and custom compositions)

Connor Lafitte

Connor Moore of CMoore Sounds

William Cashion

Arts the Beatdoctor

Solxis

Firephly

Physical Fitness

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