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Hey everybody, a great, great one today for only the second time.

Heather McGee is with me.

The first great, great one was my first podcast with Heather.

It was honor brilliant book, The Some of Us, which is just out in paperback.

The Some of Us is a beautiful, powerful book about a lie and a truth.

The lie is the one that the powerful, wealthy, white establishment has been telling poor and working class white folks forever that whatever helps black people hurts white people.

The better blacks do the worse whites do that our economy, that cultural status is all is zero.

Some game that's the lie.

The truth is and Heather's training is as an economist.

The truth is that we're all in this together.

As my friend Paul Walson used to say, we all do better when we all do better.

Hence the title of this and I can't say this enough.

This powerful, brilliant book, The Some of Us.

And in the paperback, in an afterward, Heather gets into critical race theory.

Critical race theory is an academic and legal framework that a few legal scholars in late 70s started working on to explain why the civil rights victories of the 60s had yield more progress for black Americans in economic gains in education, housing, health care, and employment.

Critical race theory recognizes that racism is more than the result of individual bias and prejudice.

It is embedded in laws and policies and institutions that uphold and reproduce racial inequalities.

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