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Samuel Myers addresses the small representation of racial minorities among the nation's wealthiest.

Samuel Myers, the Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice at the Humphreys School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota says it's no surprise blacks share of the top 1 percent is low. "Racial minority group members hold a small share of top earnings, top wealth and top holdings of assets in virtually every data set and every time period relative to their representation in the overall population," Myers told theGrio.

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November 21, 2011