Heather McGhee

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 69.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Heather McGhee is an American political commentator, political strategist, currently a distinguished senior fellow and former president of Demos, a non-profit progressive U.S. think tank. Heather sits down with the Armchair Expert to discuss race in America - her takeaway from going to a white school but living in a black neighborhood and her theory that racism comes at a cost to all races. Dax asks about the economic impact of systemic racism and Heather talks about her epiphany watching Black Panther. They talk about colorism, the history of police interfacing with the black community and the hope of change. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to arm chair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Shepard. I'm joined by
0:05.4	Monica Monsoon. Hello. You know we had a lineup this week we're gonna have a
0:09.6	Linus Morsette on Monday and we didn't do that. You wrote a beautiful thing explaining that and then
0:15.8	we had another expert of course scheduled for today but we changed that out with a more relevant expert to what's happening right now all around the country in response to George Floyd and the police brutality.
0:29.0	Today we have Heather McGee. Heather is someone who's worked with economic policy on the government level.
0:34.7	She was the president of Demos.
0:37.6	She's a UC Berkeley Law School graduate and has a BA from Yale, and she has a wonderful perspective and I really really
0:46.3	urge everyone to watch her TED Talk which is entitled Racism has a cost for everyone.
0:53.6	And arm cherries, please watch racism has a cost for everyone.
0:57.9	She's 3,000 views shy of a million and I think that us arm cherries can get her to 2 million.
1:03.0	That's my goal for her and for us.
1:06.0	So please check out racism has a cost for everyone on YouTube.
1:10.0	This will be the first of many podcasts that we're going to dedicate to this issue as we try to learn more and figure out what we can do to help.
1:19.0	Yeah, we don't want it to be a big fervor that lasts for a couple weeks and then fades away as they usually do.
1:27.5	We want this to be a continued conversation, so we are going to be part of that solution.
1:32.0	Yes, we're going to be exploring, inviting and trying to prolong this conversation for the foreseeable future,
1:39.1	whether it's extra episodes or more experts.
1:41.5	I'm leaning towards extra. I always like more content and we'll continue to talk about this issue. So please enjoy Heather McKee. She has a lot of profound things to say and we really appreciate her making the time when a lot of people
1:53.8	want to talk to her so thank you so much and please enjoy Heather McKee.
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