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the expert quoted right there is author heather mcghee, and she joins us on this important story and reform, when were back in just 30 seconds. e visionary lex. lease the 2021 nx 300 for $359 a month for thirty six months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. >>> we're back with heather mcghee, co-chair of color of change, her new book out today is called "the sum of us: what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together." thanks for being here. >> so glad to be with you. so glad you're covering this story. >> well, we look at that story because it always makes a difference to see real people in a real example. but as you document, as you've written, as we know, this is all out there. walk us through what's important to understand and what you see as the road to reform. >> what's important to understand is that racism has a tangible material cost. yes, it may start with thoughts and feelings, but ultimately, the real drivers here are law, policies, and incentives, and it ends up in terms of dollars and cents. this kind of financial discrimination has really been the most

and heather mcghee joins us now. heather, good morning to you. particular that i love. you say that "wealth is where history shows up in your wallet." but the costs of this racism for all of us go beyond just the money in our wallets. i was hoping you could give some additional examples. i love in particular the one of the swimming pool. >> yeah. you know, i wrote this book to figure out why it is that we sort of can't seem to have nice things in this country. and one of those nice things is the public swimming pools. we used to have nearly 2,000 in america. i traveled to one of the many towns in the country that drained their public swimming pool because it was segregated. and when the civil rights movement allowed black americans to say, hey, we pay for that pool, too, let us swim, too, instead of integrating it they drained it. of course, that meant that communities, all communities lost out. and in many ways, it feels like america has done that time and time again. that we've had this ambivalence about sharing our nation across lines of race.

citigroup has found that america has lost $16 trillion to racism in the last two decades and heather mcghee of us," thank you for being with us. you were on with my friend chris hayes last night and one of the things that appeals to me about your book is the discussion that you have about how people, often white people or people who have power and privilege in society often make decisions that are not in their economic interests or work against their own prosperity because they feel like giving other people, in this case black people, certain rights and privileges will take away some of their own. >> that's exactly right. i mean, to stay on the issue of health care which you've covered so well, ali, you know, white people are the largest group of the uninsured and yet ever since the affordable care act was signed by our first black president the majority of white people have disapproved of the pretty modest idea that is obama care and there is a huge correlation against racial resentment against black people and in the southern, in most cases states and also maine which is the whitest state

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. ♪ ♪ >> now on book tv's afterwords heather mcghee, examines the cost of racism for all americans.'s interviewed by author and harvard university professor khalil gibran mohamed. >> i got to know her when she was the president of demos and everything she's done there and since i've been incredibly inspired by. i think she's one of the fiercest thinkers and delighted to have this opportunity toe toe book she's written. the sum of us. thank you so much, heather, for doing this book and being who you are in the world. >> i'm a huge fan so much respect of your work and really did influence so much of my thinking. so this is a really exciting conversation to me. >> well, listen. i think this is an incredible moment and i have a question about covid writing because it seems that you have done a fair amount of it. we will get to that. i think the first thing that would be really great is to get to know you a little bit. you write about yourself and you write about your mom and chattam. chattam being the neighborhood that you grew up in and also being the neighborhood i grew in. both chica

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