It's also systemic things that are happening in our society.

Like, our statistics and studies show that children of all races do better in fully integrated

well-funded public schools.

And yet, we're trying to separate the public schools so we can keep white kids learning Christian stuff and like in the rich schools

That hurts everyone there are people who say we don't have affordable health care or education in this country because of racism which is is what you were speaking of, right?

There are certain white people that can't imagine paying to educate or keep black people healthy,

so they hold the entire society back in their disgusting attempt to punish black people.

I would also say that we're probably missing out on some of the greatest accomplishments and

inventions and innovations and innovations by holding people back because of racism because I can remember

so clearly sitting in the theater watching that movie hidden figures which if by the

way you haven't seen it it's a story about these brilliant black women who were instrumental in landing a man on the moon.

How many geniuses have we missed? How many problems could have been solved if we had allowed people to bring their

full gifts to the table instead of making them sit in another room because of

their color or honestly quite frankly their gender because women get

marginalized all the time too. We're just missing out and I feel like what you're trying to get us to understand with your work is that while we say we modern day liberal open-minded white people might not have specifically built this

house of racism we still live in it and we get the benefits from it and it's

actually we get harmed from it too so it's essential that we take ownership and

responsibility for what's happening in the house. If we're just thinking that

racism is done by those bad white people over there,

we're missing the point. Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl Podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get

into it. We're living in an incredibly strange time in America.

A time if you're paying attention you can see that everything we've counted on,

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