"It's a story that says that there can be no mutual progress, that if people of color or women get ahead, if there are more immigrants,then that must come at the expense of white people, of men, of native-born citizens, right? It's this core zero-sum lie" - Heather McGee
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Martin Luther King Jr. would be inspired by today's activism, author says
Heather McGhee, author of 2021's The Sum of Us, discusses the economic cost of racism, the importance of community organizing and the "zero-sum lie" that progress for some means loss for others.
