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From KQED.

From KQED, Public Radio in San Francisco.

I'm Michael Krasny.

As the United States grapples with civil unrest, many people are questioning how he arrived in this situation and how the nation can change for the better.

In his new book, American Poison, How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise, New York Times economics reporter Eduardo Porter,

presents a comprehensive examination of how discrimination based on race has hurt not just members of marginalized groups, but the nation as a whole.

Porter joins us to discuss his new book and how it relates to the current debate over dismantling systemic racism.

Join us after this. Welcome to Forum. I'm Michael Krasny. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the New Deal in the 1940s. The program was designed to lift millions out of poverty.

The policy worked well, if you were white, argues New York Times economics reporter Eduardo Porter in his new book, American Poison,

How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise. American Poison, How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise,

is a book that demonstrates how government

policies that spurred economic advancement were popular as long as they help white people.

For decades, racism-fueled policies undermine the nation's education systems, health care programs,

and assistance for the poor, he writes, and instead boosted resources to incarcerate people.

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