Cenk Uygur
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Is There Still Racial Injustice in This Country?
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February 28, 2013
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4:49Now Playing"The wealth gap between blacks and whites has ballooned since the middle of the Reagan administration, nearly tripling between 1984 and 2009, according to a new Brandeis University study.
The study, released Wednesday, found that the median white household held a net worth of $265,000 by 2009, eight times more than the median black household's net worth of just $28,500. That division will continue to haunt black Americans for years to come, according to Tatjana Meschede, a co-author of the study."*
What is the racial wealth gap in the United States, and has it gotten better over the years? How long has the legacy of racism persisted, and is there a just way to correct it? Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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