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Three-Fifths Compromise
Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation is a program designed by hundreds of experts to help American communities identify, understand, and overcome the legacy of racism. It focuses on connecting people across racial lines, building a collective story about racism’s role in the community, and enacting sustainable policy changes to undo racial disparities. Heather McGhee argues that all Americans should get on the same page about their history and rewrite their collective “racial story” through a national TRHT program.
Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Quotes in The Sum of Us
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Chapter 10
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“It’s a powerful, liberating frame to realize that the fallacy of racial hierarchy is a belief system that we don’t have to have. We can replace it with another way of looking at each other as human beings. Then, once you get that opening, you invite people to see a new way forward. You ask questions like ‘What kind of narrative will your great grandchildren learn about this country?’ ‘What is it that will have happened?’ Truthfully, we’ve never done that as a country. We’ve been dealing with the old model, patching it over here, sticking bubble gum over there.”
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Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Term Timeline in The Sum of Us
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Chapter 10: The Solidarity Dividend
...backed by the government. Cities and universities have already started Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) processes, and Congress is considering replicating these efforts nationally. After studying truth-and-reconciliation commissions in dozens...
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TRHT involves assembling a representative cross-section of a community to participate in guided conversations. The participants...
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...a Black educator who specializes in teaching the young children of recent immigrants, became Dallas’s TRHT program’s director in 2016. He was very skeptical about TRHT until he opened the guidebook....
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Dallas’s TRHT process is also remarkable because it changed its participants’ minds. For instance, a white school...
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One of the experts who developed TRHT, Dr. Gail Christopher, just so happens to be Heather McGhee’s mother. At the very end...
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