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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