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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee
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Heather McGhee
@hmcghee
Author #TheSumofUsBook, creator #TheSumofUsPod. Board Chair @ColorofChange. Views are my own. IG/FB: @HeatherCMcGhee
- “It was all happening just because I was breathing.” - Every. Black. Person.
- Democrats winning the Senate will save so many lives. That’s the consequence.
- Good morning. We're in the last gasp of minority rule. In 2021, we will fix the democracy the GOP has broken: a modern, expanded Court, an end to the Jim Crow relic filibuster, a Right to Vote const amendment and statehood. A republic if we can keep it. 1st stop: flip the Senate.
- 83% of Trump voters think Biden stole the election despite zero evidence. All but two GOP Senators have failed to acknowledge Biden's win. This is seriously dangerous. We need institutions to speak up now: no airing Trump rallies, civil society statements. Don't be distracted.
- Replying to @hmcgheeOh, and for those of us ill-served by their US education, no shade. Unless you’ve run for President. VP Johnson was an enslaver who became the president and ended the promise of the Union victory to give us a near-century of Jim Crow.
- This morning I got choked up on air when discussing the political reluctance to be bold on climate change. It’s never happened to me before, but there’s no precedent for the threat we are facing.WATCH: Heather McGhee says that the difference in attitude over climate change policy is a question of “urgency” #MTP #IfItsSunday @hmcghee: “We can’t say ‘it’s too aspirational.’ It’s the planet.”
00:00 - Don't forget why the Post Office is struggling financially: a cynical 2006 law requiring them to have 75 years of retirement benefits on hand (which no other biz or agency must do). Without it, they'd be in the money. ips-dc.org/how-congress-m… #SaveTheUSPS
- In some homes, families are glued right now to screens, hoping that this hostage situation ends without bloodshed. So many are wondering, with anti-Semitism on the rise, if non-Jews are paying attention, if we care. We are. We do. Prayers up.The Rabbi who wrote these words after the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting is currently being held hostage himself with 3 other worshippers at his synagogue in Texas. “Too many times in Jewish history we have faced tragedies without love and support.”
- Republicans are running TV ads setting pictures of me on fire to convince people they aren’t racist. Life is weird!
- Replying to @hmcgheeFeel free to add more un-fun facts about Johnson below…
- 3 yrs ago TODAY, Mitch McConnell tried to stop @ewarren from reading Coretta Scott King's letter on Jeff Sessions' record on voting rights & race on the Senate floor, leading to the now famous "nevertheless, she persisted" whine that became a rallying cry for women under Trump.
00:00 - As we start this week, remember, #BuildBackBetter is: $3.5T *over 10 years*, which is just 1.2% of GDP. With ~$1T in tax cuts for the rest of us, it's ~4% more spending. THAT'S IT. And we get: fast wifi, child&elder care, paid leave, lotsa jobs and a shot at SAVING THE PLANET.
