Heather McGhee

Das passiert! Well, you know, I wrote this book with some of us and the central story was when many white townspeople, officials decided to drain their public pools rather than integrate them. And I feel like that's what's happening to our entire country right now.

Das passiert! Well, you know, I wrote this book with some of us and the central story was when many white townspeople, officials decided to drain their public pools rather than integrate them. And I feel like that's what's happening to our entire country right now.

We're all in the bottom of the drain pool.

We're all in the bottom of the drain pool.

Das ist eine wirklich gute Frage. Ich bin es, weil sie auch Kanzer bekommen werden.

Das ist eine wirklich gute Frage. Ich bin es, weil sie auch Kanzer bekommen werden.

Das ist für sicher. Sie sind in vulnerablen menschlichen Körpern. Vielleicht ist Elon Musk es nicht, weil er einen Art Asteroid-Juice oder etwas auslöst. Ja. But certainly the octogenarian in the White House is in a vulnerable human body and his kids and family members.

Das ist für sicher. Sie sind in vulnerablen menschlichen Körpern. Vielleicht ist Elon Musk es nicht, weil er einen Art Asteroid-Juice oder etwas auslöst. Ja. But certainly the octogenarian in the White House is in a vulnerable human body and his kids and family members.

But more broadly, the Republican Party, they just do not appreciate how much the foundation of their daily lives depends on public goods. Public goods that have been invested in You know, and catalyzed through research in universities, in partnerships with, you know, private companies.

But more broadly, the Republican Party, they just do not appreciate how much the foundation of their daily lives depends on public goods. Public goods that have been invested in You know, and catalyzed through research in universities, in partnerships with, you know, private companies.

And then, of course, things like, you know, making sure we have clean air and water and a public health system and all of that. And so I am shocked at the short-sightedness, the meanness, the commitment to just dominance, right? Because that's what this is really about, right? It's using race and gender as the wedge, as the cudgel, as the sort of excuse, right?

And then, of course, things like, you know, making sure we have clean air and water and a public health system and all of that. And so I am shocked at the short-sightedness, the meanness, the commitment to just dominance, right? Because that's what this is really about, right? It's using race and gender as the wedge, as the cudgel, as the sort of excuse, right?

But what Donald Trump is trying to do is exert his control over every institution of civic life. And that is straight and simple out of the autocrat's playbook. And that's where we are right now, as political scientists would say.

But what Donald Trump is trying to do is exert his control over every institution of civic life. And that is straight and simple out of the autocrat's playbook. And that's where we are right now, as political scientists would say.

was invented for white men, right? I mean, we had for most of our history until the mid-1960s, we had a system where every part of our policy structure, our economic incentives, the rules, written and unwritten, were set up to allow white men to flourish and everybody else, you know, to ask for permission to merely, you know, have a job and have a family, right?

was invented for white men, right? I mean, we had for most of our history until the mid-1960s, we had a system where every part of our policy structure, our economic incentives, the rules, written and unwritten, were set up to allow white men to flourish and everybody else, you know, to ask for permission to merely, you know, have a job and have a family, right?

That's the default setting. Yeah, that's right. And I mean that literally, right? I mean, in the book, I write about all the different policies that explicitly say that, you know, you cannot get a mortgage if you are in this neighborhood with a high Negro concentration.

That's the default setting. Yeah, that's right. And I mean that literally, right? I mean, in the book, I write about all the different policies that explicitly say that, you know, you cannot get a mortgage if you are in this neighborhood with a high Negro concentration.

So the Social Security Act, right, which made it so that people could retire with dignity. It excluded the two job categories that most black workers were in. This was a compromise between the Jim Crow delegation to Congress in the New Deal, right, the domestic work and agricultural work. We had at the beginning of the 20th century a massive investment in housing.

So the Social Security Act, right, which made it so that people could retire with dignity. It excluded the two job categories that most black workers were in. This was a compromise between the Jim Crow delegation to Congress in the New Deal, right, the domestic work and agricultural work. We had at the beginning of the 20th century a massive investment in housing.