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Racism has a cost for everyone

"So we can keep pretending like we're not all on the same team. We can keep sabotaging our success and hamstringing our own players. Or we can let the proximity of so much difference reveal our common humanity. And we can finally invest in our greatest asset. Our people. All of our people." Heather C. McGhee designs and promotes solutions to inequality in America, showing what individuals, governments and the private sector can do to help the country live up to its ideals. She is the Distinguished Senior Fellow and immediate past president at Demos , a nonpartisan “think-and-do” tank that powers the movement for a just and inclusive multiracial democracy. In this inspiring TED talk , Heather states that racism makes our economy worse -- and not just in ways that harm people of color. From her research and travels across the US, she shares startling insights into how racism fuels bad policymaking and drains our economic potential -- and offers a crucial rethink on what

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