The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (One World Essentials)

by Heather McGhee

“The groups with racial diversity significantly outperformed the groups with no racial diversity,”

The diverse juries deliberated longer and performed better, in part because the white people upped their game in mixed company.

Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation effort,

groups also identify community decisions that have created hierarchy in three areas: law, separation, and the economy.

stolen land and stolen labor the first two public policies in Dallas.

Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation was the vision of a woman named Dr. Gail Christopher. She’s an expert in public health and social policy, and she’s my mother.

Dr. King said that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. But we know that progress is not guaranteed. When the arc in America bends from slavery in the 1860s and returns to convict leasing in the 1880s; when it bends from Jim Crow in the 1960s and returns to mass incarceration in the 1970s; when it bends from Indigenous genocide to an epidemic of Indigenous suicides; when it bends, but as a tree does in the wind, only to sway back, we have to admit that we have not touched the root.

the great lie at the root of our nation’s founding was a belief in the hierarchy of human value. And we are still there.

we must challenge ourselves to live our lives in solidarity across color, origin, and class;