Wealth inequality has widened along racial, ethnic lines since end of Great Recession

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1. And this has been going on pretty much for the last 50 years

The wealth gap between blacks and whites is now worse than it was 50 years ago.

Your chart points out 1989 as the worst time for the gap, things got a bit better under Clinton and even Bush for a while, and then started to decline again, under Bush, with the Great Recession. We are still not out of those woods.

I know alot of people don't like Huff Post but they did a write up about this last year. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/12/racial-wealth-gap_n_6317202.html

There are so many resources and individuals that have talked about and addressed this topic. And yet, when people try to talk about it on DEMOCRATIC Underground and question ways in which the current presidential candidates are going to address it, they are accused of "division," "manufacturing outrage" and the pièce de résistance of privileged, paternalistic stupidity, "calling somebody a racist" instead of what we're actually doing. Which is recognizing that we are dying and wanting something done about it.