Heather McGhee on Why Racial Progress is Not Zero-Sum
The Good Fight
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The Importance of Public Goods
Public swimming pools used to be part of every flourishing town and county in the country. They were usually explicitly segregated but also in the north and midwest and west. Montgomery Alabama drained their public swimming pools rather than integrate them. It signifies what a white population that has been taught to disdain and distrust of their fellow Americans will do out of zero-sum mentality.
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