During slavery, we worked from sunup to sundown. Our pay? Room and board, and whatever trinkets the master might give, if he gave any at all. Now ask yourself, what are we working for today? From the fast food server to the bank teller, to the CEO. Room, board, and whatever trinkets our paper compensation (master) will allow. The two difference are: there is no race immune to this ( though we still are the ones most affected) and most people don’t know they are slaves.

Rianka R .Dorsainvil from Cnn says “Despite gains in income and wealth for black families in America, white families often have a net worth up to 10 times higher”. She discusses how black people need to put on their oxygen mask and save themselves in order to create black generational wealth. You can check it out here.