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Aug 24, 2021 · The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee. Synopsis: “ One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone – not just for people of color.
Feb 23, 2021 · But “The Sum of Us” is predicated on the idea that little will change until white people realize what racism has cost them too. The material legacy of slavery can be felt to this day, McGhee...
McGhee explains the basic premise of her book, which is also the guiding mission behind her career in policy research. She wants to understand why the U.S. is so unequal, and why the U.S. government struggles to implement public policies that benefit the majority of its population.
White conservatives tend to complain about affirmative action and welfare, but neither are actually zero-sum problems. Today, the zero-sum story is a way for elites like Donald Trump to rouse up white voters and “escape accountability for a massive redistribution of wealth from the many to the few.”.
In The Sum of Us, policy researcher Heather McGhee argues that the U.S. lags far behind other developed countries in fields like healthcare, education, pollution, and voting rights because of the way that racism shapes American politics.
The Sum of Us is a must-read for everyone who wants to understand how we got here, but more importantly, where we can go from here—and how we get there, together.”. —ALICIA GARZA, author of The Purpose of Power and cofounder of Black Lives Matter.
Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common root problem: racism.
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