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Heather McGhee on Why Racial Progress is Not Zero-Sum

The Good Fight

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The Movement of 2020 Is Settled Into the Fibers of People

I think that the picture that is painted where it's like Democrats talk about race and therefore lose white voters again starts the story about 50 years too late because white voters were lost in 1964. But, and it is important to a really important constituency that is of course growing for there to be an understanding that today in America, a black college graduate has less household wealth than a white high school dropout. And we've got to be adult enough to own that without anybody who's white fearing that that means Armageddon for them.

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