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- Mar 6, 2017
You jest, but people believe we have millions in crackabucks. And I don't just mean Freemen on the Land, I mean fairly serious people believe that whites are unfairly hoarding wealth that is not accessible to blacks. If you asked a well-read white person how to become wealthy, they'd probably tell you finish school, get married before you have kids, don't get into unnecessary debt, and save a little from every paycheck. If you asked a leftist how white persons become wealthy, they'd tell you it's intergenerational wealth because of redlining sixty years ago and grand inheritances being passed down from generation to generation--like all of us get a small surburban ranch-style home when our parents die, and this is the nucleus of a great Scrooge McDuck fortune.
I hate this argument. I don't think my parents got a cent when my grandparents died, and I know I didn't. If anything, the time they spent caring for them in their last years cost them. They could have been working an extra job, or enjoying boomer pursuits, but instead they displayed heroic compassion to their parents in their last years. I can only hope I have the strength to do the same when the time comes. That's intergenerational wealth--caring for those who came before you and after you. That's what BLM and their screeching allies are lacking, and what they will never get from reparations.
It's just a further indication these people have a totally inaccurate, Marxist view of economics. The idea that wealth is a fixed "pie" and that too much of it can be "hoarded" from other people is complete bullshit.