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This event is scheduled for 6:00-7:00 PM (MST) on Thursday, September 17.

Professor Richard A. Levine will present an historical overview of how the United States' Constitution reflects a political structure of powers and liberties premised upon a system where private ownership of land and commercial industries is elevated to the status of a protected individual liberty which relies upon a financial system fueled by banking credit. Yet, according to the 1860 Census, prior to emancipation, 47% of the Lower South and 29% of the Upper South were enslaved.  When the Civil War ended in 1865, 3.9 million humans were no longer human capital, and thus no longer owned by legally protected human captor-capitalists.  If capitalism is a system that enables the generation and accumulation of wealth generation over generation, how did blacks in America find access to the banking system to access credit to buy land, start factories, or secure loans for their education?  Where are we today, in this journey toward equal opportunity.  Please join us for a 40 minute presentation followed by a 20 minute question and discussion period.