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The Al Franken Podcast

Heather McGhee – On What Racism Costs Everyone

The Al Franken Podcast

The Al Franken Podcast

Government, Progressive, Politics, Senate, Liberal, Senator, Minnesota, Franken, News, Saturday Night Live, Comedy, Snl

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Her new book, The Sum of Us explains how we can all prosper together.

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0:00.0

Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to the Elf Franken Podcast, add free on Amazon Music.

0:05.8

Download the Amazon Music app today.

0:08.5

Hey everybody, today I got not only a great one, you know, for a change, but I'm going

0:19.3

to say this is easily one of the best, if not the best podcasts I've ever done.

0:25.5

You are going to be blown away by Heather McGee.

0:28.4

I met Heather 12 years ago.

0:30.8

She was then head of Demos, a very effective organization that fights racial and financial

0:37.3

injustice.

0:38.3

And we work together on legislation to fight predatory lending.

0:42.3

Heather has been fighting the good fight for 20 years now.

0:46.5

You're going to be very inspired by her intellect, her eloquence, and by her very real,

0:54.6

but hopeful book, The Some of Us.

0:57.2

The Some of Us is a very important book and it is of the moment.

1:02.4

It's called The Some of Us because it addresses the central economic and political issue that

1:08.9

has been plaguing this country from its very beginning.

1:12.6

But it's especially of this moment.

1:14.8

And that is that the powerful and the wealthy, and at this moment we're talking about the

1:21.0

Republican Party, Republican leadership.

1:23.2

They've sold whites the idea that our economy, our society, is a zero sum game.

1:32.1

That anything that helps blacks and people of color takes away from them.

1:37.2

This is profoundly important because they've sold this.

1:41.7

This idea goes as far back as slave owners telling poor whites, hey, at least you're

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