![]() But as Biden spoke, she realized it might be coming at exactly the right time. McGhee had worried that The Sum of Us, coming after the death of George Floyd and the country’s reckoning with race, was being published too late. McGhee uses the book to explain that racism actually costs all Americans, by allowing wealthy conservatives to take away resources from all of us. “The logical extension of the zero-sum story is that a future without racism is something white people should fear, because there will be nothing good for them in it,” she writes. The book argues that Americans have been fed a “zero-sum story” that says progress for people of color will take away what white Americans already have. McGhee’s first book, The Sum of Us, was about to hit shelves in February, and she’d shared copies of it with some Biden advisers. ![]() But, he continued, “When any one of us is held down, we’re all held back.” “We’ve bought the view that America is a zero-sum game in many cases: ‘If you succeed, I fail,'” Biden said. As she bustled around the kitchen, Biden recited a line that seemed so familiar that she nearly dropped her wineglass. ![]() Heather McGhee was cooking dinner in her Brooklyn apartment in January as she opened a YouTube link to watch Joe Biden deliver his first speech on race as the President. ![]()
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