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Michelle Obama: Yes, we have affirmative action for the wealthy

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Michelle Obama made a smart reframing of a longtime conservative hobby horse: Affirmative action of generational wealth.

John Sutter : Critics of DEI and affirmative action want to have their cake and eat it too.

Only 35 percent of Black families and less than 28 percent of Hispanic households even had a retirement account, he says.

Sutter says the disparities are similar when you look at federally subsidized retirement savings.

Between the two acts, about 270 million acres of farmland was granted to 1.6 million white families, but only 4,000 to 5,000 Black families.

More than 48 million living Americans are direct descendants of those Homestead Act beneficiaries.

There’s a greater than one-in- four chance your forebears benefited directly from the biggest public-to-private wealth transfer in American history.

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