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Climbing The Up Escalator: White Advantages in Wealth Accumulation
Kirby Kragenbring
“My grandparents were dirt poor” , “I’m in debt”, “I don’t have any wealth” “What white privilege?”
Whites median net worth in 2001 was $120,989 compared to $19,024 (African American) and $11,458(Latino)
Whites mean family assets was $546,785 The largest socioeconomic class in the United
States is white working middle class
Climbing The Up Escalator
European monarchs and colonization Spanish settlements English serfs American settlers often gave land to
themselves The Massachusetts Bay Charter Narragansett Swamp Fight (1675)
Land Grants of Indian Land From European Monarchs
Racial caste system Virginia 1st
Native American slavery “Divide and conquer” South Carolina (1670) Georgia
Colonizing The East With Servants and Slaves
Revolutionary War Constitution 3/5 compromise Naturalization act
We The White People of The United States
Presidents South 1.4 trillion Free soil movement Freedmen’s bureau
Rich Off Slaves Labor
Andrew Jackson Indian removal act (1830) Pre-emption Act of 1841 Homestead Act of 1862 Denial to blacks Indian Land Dawes Act 1887
Westward Expansion Onto Indian Land
Anglos in Mexico Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Homestead act 1862 Gold Rush 1849
Conquering Mexico
Know-Nothing Party Jacksonian Movement Jewish Immigrants Eastern European and Italians Irish Immigrants Who was white
Waves Of White Immigrants
Depression Public Works Administration Works progress Administration Nation industrial Recovery Act National Labor Relations Act Social Security HOLC AAA New Deal
The New Deal: A Better Deal For White People
Defense Jobs Japanese Internment The GI bill
World War II As A Boost to White People
Suburbs boost White potential loss
Suburban Sprawl
Job loss overseas Job loss city to suburb Blaming blacks
Hanging Onto Jobs During Deindustrialization
Regan Women Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action For White People Begins A Comeback In The 1980’s
BOOM Jobs Schooling
The Nineties Boom Went Mostly To White Elites
The Cost of being black White people need to see that colored
people with assets and security benefit the whole country and need to work to vote people into office along with colored voters to make this so
“We all do better when we all do better” –Jim Hightower
Conclusion: White Responsibility To Insist On Asset-building Assistance For All
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