The Social and Economic Problem of the Loss of the Family Farm

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In the summer of 2020 in the wake of George Floyd's murder and a mass consciousness raising many people across the country who are white begin to ask questions of themselves their lives their communities that they have not asked. A refugee muslim black man looking for it to buy land in Maine like what could go wrong. Charlie ends up being more willing to sell his land to a group of 200 African refugee Muslim farmers because of the popular conversation at the time I want to say that because the mass demonstration moment of the summer of2020 did play an outsized and pivotal role in each of the stories that I ended up finding over the course of this year 2022.

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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