The Role of Racism in Inequality

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Yasha Borsuk: I was struck by that part of it sometimes on social media, of course social media brings out the worst in everybody and in every kind of political position. What does it mean that racism is really made inequality worse? You have some very compelling examples of this and some of us and other things. She says she grew up trying to figure out what had shifted in our economic policy paradigm between the era of the sort of new deal and the era of shared prosperity there are a lot of not so floral ways that economists and advocates describe them.

Heather McGhee is an author and policy advocate with a focus on reducing inequality. She is Board Chair for the organization Color Of Change and a former CEO of the think tank Demos. McGhee is the author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together .

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Heather McGhee discuss why progress for one ethnic group need not come at the expense of another; how racial animus has been used in the past to divide Americans who share fundamental interests; and whether the recent focus on "race-sensitive" public threatens to reignite zero-sum competition between different racial groups.

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