Counting Black and White Beans Episode 16. Accounting as past harm
On the whole we tend to view accounting as a dull and boring excise in counting beans. But this is not true and hasn’t been true ever. In this episode a brief review is given of how this ‘boring technology’ was in fact integral to harm inflicted up Black and Brown bodies during slavery and how it traditionally prevented access to early would be Black CPAs at the start of the early 19th century. And this is important because as is often said ‘if we don’t know our history then we are doomed to repeat it’. So please listen to learn more about something that is not often spoken about in accounting enough i.e., its role in past harm and subjugation.