By Anna Kutz, Danielle Crenshaw

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Two years ago, a policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy, Christian Collins, wrote, “Black labor is the cornerstone of U.S. global hegemony.” This year, he told NewsNation that’s as true as ever.

The United States’ current prestige, says Collins, is thanks to the “uncompensated and undercompensated” labor of Black communities throughout the nation’s history.

“It’s pretty easy to grow economic profit, especially for high value crops like cotton, like tobacco, if you’re not paying the workers who are maintaining those crops,” Collins said.

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