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Heather McGee, welcome to the Daily Social Distance Show.

Thank you, I'm so glad to be with you.

I'm so excited for this conversation you cannot even understand.

I'm excited because this is a concept that I have been preaching to my friends

and envying anyone who's within a shot of me for like the last five, six, seven years of my life.

But I do not have the time nor the commitment to do any of the research to back up any of my claims.

And my claims are simple.

Number one, I believe that racism costs everyone, especially white people, a lot of money,

and it costs all of society money.

And I've always said to people that racism is one of the craziest concepts to me

because it causes the people who oftentimes harbor the belief to hurt themselves.

So, I welcome you to the show because you've done the work behind this.

You've actually done the data science behind it, and you've written a book entitled The Some of Us.

Tell me a little bit about what the book is about and why that title is so important.

I wrote this book because after nearly 20 years of trying to find solutions to economic inequality

and our big problems in society, I kept running up against a wall and I kept asking myself,

okay, why can't we just seem to have nice things? And by nice things, I don't mean like hovercraft

or laundry that does itself.

I mean, universal healthcare, public health system to handle pandemics,

reliable modern infrastructure in a country with so much wealth.

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