🧵My TED talk is live! A prejudiced C-SPAN caller...the financial crisis...our gutted safety net all made me ask: "what if racism has a cost for everyone?" #CostsofRacism @TEDTalks bit.ly/thesumofus 
2/"Racism leads to bad policymaking. It’s making our economy worse, in ways that don’t only disadvantage people of color. It turns out it’s not a zero sum. Racism has costs for white people, too.” bit.ly/thesumofus @TEDTalks
3/“In Montgomery, Alabama, I saw how racism destroyed a public good and the public will to support it. In 1959, the town drained their public swimming pool rather than integrate it. It was never rebuilt.” bit.ly/thesumofus
4/“We wouldn’t have had a financial crisis if not for racism. More than half of subprime mortgages went to people with good credit scores like Glenn, a Black Cleveland homeowner. Stereotypes blinded policymakers to the problem back when we could stop it.” bit.ly/thesumofus
5/“A white man named Joey put it this way: He said, ‘White workers think, ‘I ain't votin' [for the union] because the blacks are votin' for it. If the blacks are for it, I'm against it.’ In the end, the union vote failed.” bit.ly/thesumofus
6/“It's easy to focus on the prejudiced attitudes I heard from the workers in Mississippi, but that misses the point. I’m more interested in holding accountable the people selling racist ideas for their own profit than those desperate enough to buy them.” bit.ly/thesumofus
7/“The good news is that just as racism has costs for everyone, we all stand to benefit from racial equity.” bit.ly/thesumofus
8/Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.😀 It's based on my forthcoming book, available for pre-order now: "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together" (@OneWorldLit 2021) amzn.to/2RHaQwt @TEDTalks
