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Heather McGhee on Why Racial Progress is Not Zero-Sum

The Good Fight

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The Role of Race in Public Policy

White and black Americans under a competition with each other that if black Americans are going to be doing better than within the past. That means you white Americans will do really badly, so you got to keep them down. So shouldn't we nevertheless abstain from many of these kinds of policies which are framed in this way? How do you speak to white voters about the need for racially conscious policies without further alienating them again like the experiment of democracy in a multiracial context?

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