The Racial Wealth Gap Is About the Upper Classes
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Bruenig argues that the mainstream discourse about the racial wealth gap is missing a key fact, which is that the vast majority of the racial wealth disparity is driven by the difference between the wealthiest ten percent of white people and the wealthiest ten percent of black people. This fact has major implications for how to tackle the gap and shows that most proposals for doing it don't actually work.