Updated at 9:24 a.m. ET
When Elizabeth Warren announced her exploratory committee for president at the end of last month, the Massachusetts senator didn’t only talk about a crumbling middle class – her signature policy issue – but she acknowledged the impact of race and racism on the economy, saying that “families of color” face a rockier path “made even harder by the impact of generations of discrimination.”
A few weeks later, Julian Castro, the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, explicitly spoke about reforming the justice system when he announced his candidacy for president, saying that “for far too many people of color, any interaction with the police can become fatal.”
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