Kirby Kragenbring
“My grandparents were dirt poor”, “I’m in debt”, “I don’t have any wealth” “What white privilege?”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
European monarchs and colonization Spanish settlements English serfs American settlers often gave land to themselves The Massachusetts Bay Charter Narragansett Swamp Fight (1675)
Racial caste system Virginia 1 st Native American slavery Native American slavery “Divide and conquer” South Carolina (1670) Georgia
Revolutionary War Constitution 3/5 compromise 3/5 compromise Naturalization act
Presidents South 1.4 trillion Free soil movement Freedmen’s bureau
Andrew Jackson Indian removal act (1830) Indian removal act (1830) Pre-emption Act of 1841 Homestead Act of 1862 Denial to blacks Indian Land Dawes Act 1887
Anglos in Mexico Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Homestead act 1862 Gold Rush 1849
Know-Nothing Party Know-Nothing Party Jacksonian Movement Jewish Immigrants Eastern European and Italians Irish Immigrants Who was white
Depression Public Works Administration Works progress Administration Nation industrial Recovery Act National Labor Relations Act Social Security HOLC AAA New Deal New Deal
Defense Jobs Japanese Internment The GI bill
Suburbs boost White potential loss
Job loss overseas Job loss city to suburb Blaming blacks
Regan Women Affirmative Action
BOOM Jobs Schooling
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
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