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Letter: Elitist insert was out of place amid news of human suffering

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Madeline Nelson, left, is joined by her friend Sophie Hudiburg as their families join the crowd gathered at the Utah Capitol on Saturday, June 30, 2018, to protest the Trump administration's immigration policies that have led to the separation of migrant families. More than 750 locations around the country planned to participate in the 'Families Belong Together' event, including at the nations capitol.

Saturday morning (June 30, 2018) as I prepared to attend the Families Belong Together rally at the Capitol building, I opened my daily Tribune to find a 130-page glossy magazine aimed at the top 10 percent of millionaires and billionaires showcasing the mansions and exquisitely expensive clothing available to them and utterly beyond reach for the rest of us. It angers me enough on normal days that as a lower-middle-class citizen who believes in supporting the free press, I’m expected to pay for these increasingly frequent elitist, self-satisfied periodicals of excess, but at a time when the least among us are suffering unconstitutional family separations and internment in concentration camps in this supposed democracy, the magazine was especially galling.

Sharlene Beck, Salt Lake City