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FOCUS: Bernie Sanders | The Straightest Path to Racial Equality Is Through the One Percent 
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during the National Education Association Strong Public Schools Presidential Forum last week in Houston. (photo: David J. Phillip/AP)
Bernie Sanders, The Washington Post
Sanders writes: "Americans owe many of our freedoms to those who put their lives on the line for racial equality: people like Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers and Daisy Bates. But a racial wealth gap of 10 to 1 exists between white and black Americans, and that gap, along with the effects of racism, fuels disparities in areas ranging from health care to housing and from college debt to criminal sentencing." 

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Walmart is the largest private employer of African Americans in the country — 42 percent of its associates are black. And it pays its employees below a living wage — even while the Walton family owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans. Former vice president Joe Biden recently said, “I don’t think 500 billionaires are the reason why we’re in trouble.” I respectfully disagree. It is my view that any presidential candidate who claims to believe that black lives matter has to take on the institutions that have continually exploited black lives.

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