It's the Brian Mayo Showot show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

In December of 2016, just after Donald Trump was elected president,

journalist Tracy McMillan published an essay

in the New York Times called White Resentment on the night shift at Walmart.

She had previously gone undercover as a journalist working the night shift at Walmart for a few months to hear what life was like for the lives of people

making their real livings that way.

More than 90% of Americans born in 1940 earned more than their parents, she reminds us in that piece, but only 50% of those born

in 1980 will, according to the Equality of Opportunity Project.

And that's some of the context.

But she found that white resentment on the night shift at Walmart

wasn't aimed at structural changes in the economy,

like the decline of manufacturing in their Michigan town,

or the decline of unions in America, but as McMillan wrote,

they blamed a rigged system, that was 2016, sound familiar, a rigged system new workers taking jobs meaning immigrants and corrupt

politicians all sounding like a big part of what put Donald J Trump in office here we are again in a Trump-involved election year and Tracy

McMillan has a new book that she says that resentment on the night shift at

Walmart article set the stage for. It's called the white bonus, five families and the cash

value of racism in America. She calculates her own white bonus by the way at

about $372,000. So let's do the math and let's hear the stories.

Tracy McMillan, hi welcome, nice to have you on with me again.

Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here.

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