“Each time Black Americans gained..wealth, new policies or economic practices stripped thm of tht wealth & imposed new barriers to its creation & retention. Tht process unfolded..peeling away assets in the present & obstructing opportunities for helping the next generation.” My Afternoon Read:
Critical race theory? It doesn't make me, an old white woman, feel bad about myself. It makes me mad about a system that doesn't work.
That is the appropriate focus — being mad about a system that doesn’t work. ALSO, being aware of how that system BENEFITS YOU, AND thinking about how you will use your privilege to ACT.🌸
I cant wait to read this. Sadly Trump increased his vote count in 24 over his vote counts in 16 and 20, by making substantial gains with black voters. I hope we can turn this around in 2028.
All true, and I apologize for the lack of the use of capital B. Of course White voters support Trump. As a person of color ( indigenous) I am not casting dispersion, just wanting to find out how we fix this. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
Interesting tht your focus is on “fixing” Black voters instead of the maj of white voters who voted FOR him.😶 The narrative you are pushing abt the Black vote is incorrect. Here is a more reliable source abt the Black vote thn article you sent. Hope it provides you with more insight re Black vote:
And it's getting worse.
SURE IS. This admin is creating EOs that will increase it.
That was a pretty good excerpt. What's fascinating is the "pull em up by their bootstrap" Really, how? Most of us never had the boot, & if we did, they kept stealing the shoelaces, time & time again. It's frustrating being black in America
EVERY. TIME. It IS frustrating. And deadly. AND amazing & miraculous how Black people have continued to thrive in a country that is so hostile.🌸
Now they want white DEI and white reparations.
Well, they have ALWAYS had “white DEI”: it was called “for whites only” policies. “Racial Preferences” never was a problem for the 1619-1964 years it was LEGALLY advantaged to white people. It ONLY became an issue when it was expanded to create a more level playing field for everyone else.😶
Exactly. All their anti-DEI stuff is a reaction to my white people getting the smallest taste of what it’s always been like for everybody else and deciding that needs to be corrected, that we liked it better before, when a mediocre white guy had an advantage over everybody else.
Well, they DID. NOT. get even “the smallest taste” of what it has been like for Black ppl. What they had LESSENED — not even eliminated, but just lessened — was their unearned advantage. And you’re right, EVEN. THAT. was too much — so the maj of white men AND women voted in a white supremacist.😶
Between 2019 and 2022, median wealth increased by $51,800, but the racial wealth gap increased by $49,950—adding up to a total difference of $240,120 in wealth between the median white household and the median Black household www.brookings.edu/articles/bla...
Thank you for this additional info!! And I LOVE (CREDIBLE) SOURCES!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Also, we are now seeing policies that are being explicitly created to INCREASE that racial wealth gap. THIS is what the maj of white voters who voted, voted FOR.😶
The White GOP Christian Nationalists cult knows what people of lesser value should have …It’s just the new Republican Party .. Sick sons a bitchs
“people of lesser value”??!! Okay, you are going to have to explain what you mean. . .👀
So, we take back our contributions and inventions!Everything they enjoy daily, was not created by folks who look like them! This is the reason they want to whitewash historic truths to remake lies that they created everything; they are not on the positive side of history…hatred? Yes!
I don’t know that we can take back our contributions and inventions. HOWEVER, we can keep our history alive in our homes, other institutions. We cannot depend on the U.S. to tell the truth about its own history of racial oppression.
