Commentary: The racist roots of American inequality
by Erin Aubry Kaplan, Los Angeles Times
Jul 10, 2019
3 minutes
In the aftermath of this year's annual celebration of our country's birth, here's some food for thought: inequality, once considered anathema to American ideals of fairness and democracy, is now accepted as a fact of American life.
This is not exactly something to celebrate, but it is progress of a sort. Since the Occupy movement nearly a decade ago, we have been on a steady path to mainstreaming the hard truth that the U.S. is not
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