we spend the rest of the hour with heather mcghee, author of the new book "the sum of us: what racismeryone and how we can prosper together." heather is the board chair of color of change and former president of the think tank demos. thank you so much for joining us, heather. congralations on your new book. >> thank you. congratulations on 25 years. amy: thank you so much. the whole team at democracy now! and celebrating. hopefully soon, we can celebrate together. you just sat there and watched once again the rev. warnock. you tweeted while he was speaking and said everyone should do themselves a favor and watch this speech. can you talk about the significance of what happened in georgia? rev. warnock, the first black democrat to be elected from the former confederacy? >> it was so moving. i really think of the crucible of the 24 hours between january 5 and january 6 as american promise an american ril and a nutshell. first we saw a multiracial coalition, multiracial antiracist coalition that was standing up to four years of division, pain, and suffering and putting that man who is th

heather mcghee you saw at the end of my interview with senator toomey, he made an empassioned defensevoter i.d.s in particular here. and i'm curious, can you separate the ideas that maybe he's putting up with what appears to be the motive behind all of these changes at the state level? is it even possible to separate the two? >> well, this is what happens when people who can't win a fair election try to rig the rules to make it harder for eligible citizens to vote. this is what you see happening. and it is a race igs logic. it is an old tradition in this country of targeting policies that we know disproportionately impact black and brown voters. we know that black and brown voters, for example, are less likely to have a government issued photo identification and yet this is the way that systemic racism so often works today. often true that when you look at white americans who are young, white americans who are low income, one out of five of them don't have a photo i.d. issued by the government and yet are they any less eligible citizens with the right to vote? the idea of voter fraud

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