Maya Rockeymoore recently wrote in GlobalPolicy.tv and the Huffington Post about what’s missing in the national dialogue about inequality:
Perhaps years from now, when President Obama writes his autobiography about his time in office, we’ll learn all the details about his conversation with Pope Francis. We knew before the meeting that economic inequality would be a topic of discussion, and afterwards we were told it was part of the conversation.
Yet, I’m pretty certain that the elephant in the room was not discussed. Despite overwhelming evidence that a racial wealth gap exists and persists in the U.S., it remains a taboo topic in the mainstream media and most politicians studiously avoid offering targeted solutions to help close this gap. But this issue is ignored at our nation’s peril given the anticipated growth of racial and ethnic groups over the next few decades.
