![]() ![]() In the series, which expands on the book, she leads a team of producers on trips across the country to explore what happens when people engage in cross-racial solidarity. McGhee returns to the example of the swimming pool in the first episode of her new podcast, The Sum of Us, made in collaboration with Spotify and Higher Ground Productions, which will premiere on July 27. ![]() ![]() “There’s something about the idea of a swimming pool that is so simple, joyful, accessible, everybody loves it, that the idea that a community would choose to take that away from themselves in the name of racism just feels both unbelievable and totally believable-because it did happen.” “Racism is a really tough subject that is probably the most loaded and complex subject that we try to tackle together,” she said in a recent video interview. Ultimately, it’s a metaphor for the power of cross-racial solidarity-and what happens in its absence. In McGhee’s telling, the fact that in the 1960s many communities decided to fill in their public swimming pools rather than integrate them is a reminder that racism sometimes makes people do illogical things. If you know anything about Heather McGhee, the former leader of progressive think tank Demos, and her 2021 best seller, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, you might know that the book takes a great interest in swimming pools. ![]()
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