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This 2019 file photo shows a tip box filled with U.S. currency in New York. (Mark Lennihan/AP) Chances are, if you re a white taxpayer in the U.S., you re getting a better deal than Black Americans. That’s according to a new book called The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans – and How We Can Fix It” by Emory University tax law professor Dorothy Brown. She writes that the U.S. tax system has long favored white Americans, effectively reinforcing and creating a staggering racial wealth gap. Born and raised in the South Bronx, Brown says she’s dealt with racism her whole life. She decided to practice tax law in order to pursue a career where she thought race and racism had nothing to do with her work.

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