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

by Heather McGhee

Racism, then, works against non-wealthy white Americans in two ways. First, it lowers their support for government actions that could help them

economically, out of a zero-sum fear that it could help the racialized “undeserving” as well.

Students of color comprised just one in six public college students in 1980, but they now make up over four in ten.

By 2017, the majority of state colleges were relying on student tuition dollars for the majority of their expenses.

white high school dropouts have higher average household wealth than black people who’ve graduated from college.

Fundamentally, we have to ask ourselves, how is it fair and how is it smart to price a degree out of reach for the working class just as that degree became the price of entry into the middle class?

Over the past fifty years, the Kochs organized vast sums of money to advance a vision for America that includes limited democracy, a rollback of civil rights, and unfettered capitalism.

Considering the astonishing revelations

that are flying at you that quickly, the whole experience of a MacLean conversation can leave you feeling like you’ve just been picked up by a twister and dropped in an entirely different universe.

As a team of New York Times reporters described in an exposé of the 158 families who dominated funding for the 2016 presidential election, “They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male,

the uprisings in Ferguson, Missouri, after the police killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager,

Check the facts-he was not unarmed. He and the officer were struggling for the officer's weapon

White men are now one-third of the population but three-quarters of the gun suicide victims.

twice as many people die from gun suicides in America each year as from the gun homicides