BET founder Robert Johnson, one of a handful of American Black billionaires, read the myth-busting analysis and threw down a challenge to experts: Prove it wrong — or admit a depressing diagnosis that would demand more serious surgery: that “white people, from the beginning of this country, have had more access to capital to create wealth than Black people. And wealth in a capitalist society — or access to capital in a capitalist society — propels you to more wealth,” says Johnson.
In other words, if the wealth gap can’t be bridged by pushing and pulling dozens of other policy levers, the only answer may be to more directly redistribute wealth itself.
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