From Blizzards 🥶To Black Wealth:💰 State-Sponsored Advantage Explained

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Welcome And Wisdom Culture

SPEAKER_05 0:09

Peace, peace, and welcome back. Welcome back to Freedman's Affairs Radio. I'm your host, Aaron Vaughn Black. And as always, as always, right out of the gate, I want to let you know how appreciative that we are up here, especially myself, that you have taken the time out to press that button and tap back in with us this morning on this glorious sunrise of February 24th, 2026. And the numerical focus for today is wisdom culture. Wisdom culture, right? Today is the 24th, and that's that is the numerical focus for today is wisdom culture. The 24th letter in our alphabet is the letter X. And if you really just at a glance take a look at that letter, you will see two lines that cross each other. And I look at it as that's an intersectionality symbol the way I see it. And a lot of times in life, we have different aspects of life, whether it be cultural, traditional, customary things that cross each other intersectionally. Just a little something to think about. When you can have the insight to reflect on these small little things just like that, it opens up your mind to broader, broader things, or broader understanding of things. So that does I just threw that in there just to give us a little something to think about in the course of a day. Let me turn this music down a little bit. I don't want to distract anyone. We had a huge blizzard over the last two days. And from what I understand, they're expecting more weather, maybe another seven, eight inches of snow. We had a big hit on Sunday going into Monday. And um they're talking about we're having some more weather coming. And all through the eastern corridor, all through the eastern corridor. Flights have been shut down, roadways have been shut down, the tunnels. Um they here in the city, they are they were only opening the roads for uh quote unquote essential workers, you know, people that work for the city in the in in certain capacities or for certain agencies. But it's been a rough one. It's been a rough one. And you know, there was something I was telling somebody that that we were having some days that were in the 40s, high 40s, almost 50 degrees in February. That is that is not the usual case in February. Usually February, January and February are usually very frigid. Very frigid. And it's been nice weather. Um week last week and the week before last. You're coming outside with little jackets on, you didn't really need heavy coats on, and that's usually not the case in February. So I I kind of I kind of was expecting something gigantic to happen. Was almost expecting it, and and we got hit with a blizzard. It was bad. It was a blizzard, and I went out Sunday afternoon. It was it was coming down, the wind was blowing. I had to put on my snow goggles to because I had to go out and get some water and stuff. I hadn't got any water. I got to the uh store, and fortunately enough, there was water. There was some some, you know, they left some, they wiped everything else out, all of the the the different um meats and the ground meats and stuff like that. They wiped that stuff out, the rotisserie chicken. Because I shop in Whole Foods a lot of times. I try to shop in places like that, you know, not saying the Whole Foods is suspect now too because Amazon brought them. And I'm gonna, you know, I did I did a um we did a a program on the the poisoning of of the food supply and food system here in America, and I think that needs a deeper dive. So I think we're gonna go back into that. I'm not I'm not gonna promise you and say when exactly. Maybe in the upcoming weeks, because as you know, we got the primaries they'd be kicking off in lecture season, I think next month, sometime next month, because we're already at the 24th of February, and there's only a couple of days left. So I want to say that second week of March, it will kick off the the the um primary season. Uh so we're gonna touch on those things, but I do want to get back into um the food, the food thing, and that because Trump just they just the Trump administration just passed some kind of thing um with the chemicals and stuff like that. So we gotta I gotta do my homework with that and get back into that.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

Yeah, family.

Food Supply Worries And Future Deep Dive

Primaries Ahead And Policy Teasers

Jesse Jackson Passes: Measured Respect

SPEAKER_05 6:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, um there was something else on my mind that uh, yeah, okay. It was the um, we just recently lost um a very iconic figure in the FBA, Foundational Black American slash Freedmen Society. And oh y'all all know who it is. It was uh the late Reverend Jesse Jackson. I didn't want to say anything about it up here. I I waited, I waited to let everyone else say their piece. I'm not gonna really talk about him up here. I will say that to the family, to his family that are probably grieving him or mourning him right now, I should say. I will say to them. Um you have our condolences here at Freedman's Affairs Radio. You have our condolences to the to the family. I'm not gonna say I largely disagreed vehemently, I should say, with Jesse Jackson, but I'm not gonna come up here to this microphone this morning and criticize or critique anything about that man because I haven't walked in his shoes. And it was something on Jason Black's broadcast that I listened to on Saturday that was very important. And this is why it's good to not jump on stories as soon as they come out, get all of the facts, listen to what's going on, what's being said, and I was going, you know, like I said, I didn't I didn't personally I didn't care for uh Reverend Jesse Jackson personally however I'm not gonna ever come up here and criticize him or bash I shouldn't say criticize because I cro I critiqued a plenty of things over the years of him. I've I've critiqued. I I'm not sure whether I've done it on this microphone, but in my personal journey I've critiqued several things about him. I'm not gonna do that here because I don't think I I have the credentials, I should say that I don't have the credentials to critique anything about him in in his public life. I don't. Now I didn't agree with a lot of moves he made, a lot of political things he did. I didn't agree with it. However, as I said, I'm not gonna critique it here. I per I had a personal thing with him due to certain circumstances. I'm gonna place something here in just a moment that will kind of give you an insight. I'm not gonna say anything bad about Reverend Jesse Jackson because I don't have a right to. See, you gotta remember this these guys, they marked, they they were putting down the work, laying down the work at a time when most of us weren't weren't even born. And if we were born, I think I was a very small child when when uh when Dr. King was assassinated. I was uh I was pro I don't think I was born when Malcolm was killed. I don't think I was born and Megar Evers and and those guys. However, these these men did this work that we're doing up here. They did this work at a time when they were killing our leaders and our advocates at rates that we today we can't even fathom. Because you hear you hear about a a lot about the very popular ones, but there were some people that were unpopular, that weren't didn't have the popularity that were being unalived and assassinated and taken out at the behest of J. Egg Hoover's FBI and other government agencies, and this is just the reality of things. So me not it was a different time than it is now. You know, and I'm gonna speak to this at at another time for another broadcast. I just recently was at a ceremony or awards dinner, and I got to speak with uh Charles Baron. And it was a con it was it was a good conversation, uh I I wouldn't say a contemptual one, very intense. And I realized I had to pull back because of this man was a Black Panther. He came up through the trenches and he fought in times when I I wasn't even a thought. So I pulled back. You know, and that's what I'm doing here to you know this morning up here on this microphone. Let me get the bed back in here because I talk better over over a little over a little sound. And um, yeah. So again, condolences to the family. I'm gonna keep whatever unpleasantries I may have, and I'm gonna take that and stick it in my pocket and walk with it. I'll let you decide where you are with it. As I said, I had plenty of criticism for him that I would never say publicly to anyone on a platform as this one, because I don't reserve the right to. I didn't walk in that man's shoes at a time when when things were that things were going on that I can't even fathom. He watched these men get killed. Malcolm, Martin, Mega, and a whole host of others. And they weren't playing, and these people were these people were some vicious, vicious killers. So, but I will I will up here, I will, I will, and I'm gonna play a little clip from someone who was there with Dr. King at the moment he was assassinated. And this is uh, you'll be hearing the sound, the voice of uh Josea Williams. Just give me a second and let me bring that in. Let me turn this music down and let me bring it in, and I'll turn my mic down and and you can hear it. Hold on a second.

Hosea Williams On King’s Assassination

SPEAKER_00 13:52

We were in the meeting, and someone said, Reverend Billy Carles is outside, and he's upset. And Dr. King said, Oh my god, I forgot to tell y'all, I promised his wife, who's supposed to be a great soul cooker, we'd have our feet on her table at 5:30. Now it's a quarter to six, and we sit in the meeting. Dr. King said, everybody rush, rush, rush. And uh, and get ready in a hurry, let's go. So I ran down and got to my room. My key wasn't on my door for some strange reason. The limousine that had been loaned to us, I opened my door, I could touch the limousine, and and uh finally I heard the driver tell Dr. King, Dr. King, I advise you to get your top coat. Because even though I have the car on, it's still chilling, and the last words he said in this was okay, Jonesy, I'll get my top coat. And I heard this thing say, bow! And I honestly thought someone had thrown a fire crack into the air. And I looked around to rebuke whoever was that stupid. And I heard something fell up above my head, and I looked up, and his leg was sticking through the reel. Dr. King only wore one type of sock and one type of shoe, and I knew that was him. I said, Oh, by God, they got it. And then I had to run about 50 feet down back up and I got to him. And uh, Ralph was holding his head, and Andy was there, and a guy from Africa who had been traveling with us as uh uh uh newsman from Africa. We found out later on he was working for the CIA, no, the FBI, working with the FBI. And he'd taken a lot of pictures of Dr. King, and I grabbed him in and threw that and stuff, choking him, because the bullet hit Dr. King right here and went round and cut his Medula Blanc gunner. And I didn't want people to remember Dr. King was having his face shut off. So the handy ran and got a towel, and somehow another that guy took one more picture after I made him into that camera, and uh, it shows Dr. King now with a towel on his face. But I'm gonna tell you, I was an expert gunner in World War II. When I ran up on that balcony and I looked from whence that bullet had had to come, to distance that bullet and just could feel the wind blowing that day. I said, Whoever shot that rifle or one of the best in the world, he shot one bullet. And I believe if Dr. King had moved to go back and get his chapsport, the bullet would hit him between eyes. The bullet hit him right here. And but what happened? What happened? And then Rams said, We were going to take him on to the hospital. Jose, you get all the staff together. Three of us saw it, Dr. King, after he was shot. Three SCLC uh executive staff members. Andy, Evanath, and Jose Williams. Those are the three that saw that money. Now listen there. So I got in the yard and I was about to lose my crew because I was thinking if I could take some molecules out there and make me some guns and kill me some white folks. And one mind said, Now be cool. You're doing the same thing you promised me you'll never do. And I started crying, and then I heard Jesse Jackson say, He told me, Jesse, take our people on to the mountaintop. And that didn't bother me, even though I know Jesse got nowhere near him. And then Jesse said, Uh, I held his head in my hand while he died. And that didn't get to me. And then Jesse said, uh, look at my shirt. And I looked around and showed up. And Jesse Jackson's shirt was rich in blood. And I realized the only way Jesse could have gotten that blood was toop down on that floor within a rain motel and rake that blood off that floor and put that blood on him. And I went crazy. I really tried to kill Jesse. They grabbed us and all that, but that hurt me so bad. The other thing was, when Abernathanos came back, he says, No need of prayer, no need to cry, no need to nothing. He's gone, it's over. He's gone to glory. And we called the meeting, the self-meeting, and Jesse claimed to have been ill. And Abernathy told him, Jesse, go ahead to the room and relax. Jesse had to have run like hell that room into that airport. Because he got out of Memphis and Chicago. All his feet and everybody was still in the motel. Cut the televisions on the next morning, and that was Jesse Jackson in Chicago with that same bloody shirt on. Telling that same guy. I've never respected Jesse since that moment. When he shot Dr. King, a black guy came running around that corner saying, he went that away, he went that away. James O. Ray no more killed Dr. King and I killed him. And everybody knew it. He was a Pets and setup. And the guy said, Whip that away, whip that away. This went that away. He said, Man ran out that building and dropped the rifle on the sidewalk and jumped in a white Mustang and a red Alabama tag and took him. Well here was no colour to make them like a Mustang, but a Mustang. A white red Alabama tag? Where's he going? The police have him like that. And I asked that. That rifle was left on that sidewalk. That was the rifle that James Ulrich.

SPEAKER_05 19:15

Okay, family. There you have it. There you have it. You heard that that was Hosea Williams. He was there on the scene when Dr. King was assassinated, along with uh Reverend Ralph Abenappe. R Ralph Abenappe, I should say. And uh there was a photographer who they later found out that was um working with the government. He was an African uh photographer and they were taking pictures and Jose Woods, as as you heard, he said he grabbed a guy and started choking him because he was taking pictures of Dr. King in the state that he was in with that bullet in his face like that, and that made him upset and he reacted. But there was only a few in in the as the story has it, uh Revan Jackson was nowhere near Dr. King for him to be holding him and saying for Dr. King to whisper to him take the pe you know, finish taking peep the people to the mountaintop. Now, I wasn't there, I don't know if this is true, but this is the general consensus, is what uh brother Hosea Williams uh has stated. That that is what the general consensus for the people that were there on the scene that day. And for somebody to to be shot in the face like that, as you said, he turned a little bit, so that's what kept the bullet from hitting him in between the eyes. But the for him to sustain such an injury as such, can you imagine him having the clarity of mind to say something, even if he could? I doubt if the man could talk. Because the bullet struck him right right under right in but uh under his nose, under his eye, near his nose, and it went out through the back, through the back, the bottom part of his neck. So there was some tissue ruptured, probably, probably in near his throat area. There was some the back of the throat, there was some ruptured tissue. So I can't I couldn't imagine him being able to speak, to say something, uh make a statement like that. I don't know I was there. Well, I what I will employ the listener to do is to, there's a book by William Peppers Esquire. White man, but he was the attorney for the King family for Coretta and the rest of the family. He was a um and he wrote a book of the book I think you can get off Amazon for about$25, and the book is titled Um The Plot to Kill King. I suggest you get That book and read it because he represented them in the court case and won. And he gave his uh views on what was happening and what was the temperature at that time, what was going on, things that were said, things that weren't revealed to the media. So I uh it's a good reading, and I I am I would implore you to read it. As I said, I won't say anything bad about uh the late Revan Jackson on the program. Like I said, I had my disagreements with him and I had my issues about him, as I do guys like Al Shompton. I don't particularly care for Al Shompton. I did at one time, I don't particularly care for him now. And sometimes I will poke fun and stuff like that. We'll have some light moments up here, but I'm very careful as how I critique him here. Now, when you out, when you brazenly do things to go against the the the lineage, I have to speak on it up here. This is what I do, and this is this is my obligation to you that I come up here and speak on those things. So, other than that, I'm very precise and and intentional on how I criticize them. Because again, once again, these men, they stood at a time when things were very different from they are now. And I wasn't from that era, from the Civil Rights era, I wasn't from that era, but I can only imagine. And that's all I can do is imagine. Now, I get up here every week, come talk to you, run my mouth on this microphone about things and give you my analogies and the viewpoints of how I see things. But I'm I don't I'm not doing the work that those men did. So I have to be very conscious and careful on how I critique them. That said, family, that said, we're gonna we're gonna move on with the program. We're gonna move on with the program. And I'm I just got a little something I want to talk to, talk about. And I found I was strolling the other day, doing some research, looking for some things, and I ran across something, and I thought it would be important to come up here and share with you. Let me see, can I pull it up here? As Roland Martin would say, go to go to my iPad. That's what I'm doing. I'm on the iPad, and uh let me see. Can I bring it up here? Oh okay. All right. This was a a a a uh words of my fellow American. Oh wow, this thing was loud. This was uh at a a conference, some type of uh lecture that James uh what's his what's this guy name? James Ellison. Vince Ellison, I'm sorry, not James, Vince Ellison was doing on the topic of of white privilege. Hold on, let you hear it.

Reflecting On Legacy And Restraint

SPEAKER_06 25:40

Claim that it is. It is not to put white people above, it is not to bring black people down, it is to judge what wrong has been done in the past. Um I would like to preface my question with a couple of words from a fellow American and a fellow Christian myself. So I would just I would like to open with uh verse from Leviticus 19, verse 15 that says, You shall not do injustice in court, you shall not be impartial to the poor or defer to the green, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. And that to me relates to the institution of white privilege and what the liberal liberalists claim that it is. It is not to put white people above, it is not to bring black people down, it is to judge what wrong has been done in the past by white people so we can learn from our mistakes and move forward in this country. And so I'm gonna be blind to the sentence. You are advocating for violent such as your example with hanging and how it believes. I just want to know what is the point in spreading blatant minds and um, we referred to before such as like the liberals were taking over the government to elect black people or like liberals in mass. I mean, if you look at our congress initially, it is 70% white. I just I just want to know why.

SPEAKER_04 27:09

Well, it's not a line because if you look at the black community, which is what I'm talking about, um, almost 100% about representation of liberal. When you go to any city, any majority black district, um, the person that represents that area is a liberal.

SPEAKER_05 27:27

So when you're talking about a line, definitely I'm gonna be skipping around a little bit. I'm gonna be skipping around because um this is uh like a five-minute clip, and I don't want to keep keeping on that clip that long. So I'm gonna be skipping around, but hold on. Hang on.

SPEAKER_04 27:47

You obviously don't know what you're talking about because that's a fact. It's not a lie. Um I'm also you're not talking about what white people have done to America's not what a white person has done. And I don't believe in a collective punishment. Um I'm making you responsible for what you do. I'm not gonna believe you responsible. What somebody doesn't do the money you what's somebody I don't you responsible for you to do, you responsible for black people, but people in the black people leave the black job, and so you put it on the top of me, but generation of the job.

SPEAKER_06 29:08

My parents were able to own a house prior to nineteen sixty.

Setting Up The White Privilege Debate

Vince Ellison Clip And Pushback

Reframing Privilege As State Advantage

Homestead Act Vs Freedmen’s Bureau

Social Security Exclusions

FHA, GI Bill, And Appraisal Gap

Data: Wealth By Education

ROI On Degrees And Inheritance

Scripture On Restitution And Wages

Leviticus, James, Ezekiel, Nehemiah

SPEAKER_05 29:14

See, family, now I'm gonna tell you. Um I'm not gonna play any more of that. I just wanted to give you a so a little bit of insight to what this this this uh topic was gonna be about up here this morning. Now, this guy, he I I don't have to tell you, I don't know, maybe most of you don't know who Vince Ellison is. I didn't know him in up until about a year ago, but he's he's one of these um one of these uh big old he look like he's about six three skinning and grinning uh uh black uh conservatives, as we call them, conservatives, and uh he he he's one of them them boot looking negro boot boot licking negroes that love to punch down at black society. He's done it before. He said horrible things about Dr. King, things that were not proven that he didn't bring uh concrete evidence about, and he got up there and denigrated that man. And that's not the only time he's done it to several other people, and he's he's always he's one of them super, super negroes for white for his white daddy. That's what he is. When you see him on these panels with these white people, boy, he be grinning like a chess cat. That's what he is, and he talks tough. You see, he just told the young man to shut up now. These are college kids he's talking to, and they're telling him that they know white privilege exists, they have generational wealth in their family from white privilege, but he's telling them, Oh, you're crazy. See, because you're not supposed to say stuff like that. You're not supposed to. So that's what the topic, the topic is gonna be. And you know, as you know, it's just about white privilege. Before any of you who listen to me who may be conservatives, roll your eyes, and before any of my white listeners reach for the DAO to tune out, just stay with us a little bit. Stay with us. I'm not here to talk about your feelings, I'm not here to tell you that you didn't work hard. I'm here to talk about the ledger. And what is the ledger in the FBA community or the freedmans as we we understand something very clearly? You can be a world crack, world-class runner. But if you're running on a track that was paved for your neighbor and left as mud for you, the win isn't about merit, it's about infrastructure. White privileges is not a myth, family. It's not a sl a loud slur, it's a state-sponsored competitive advantage. It's it's unjust enrichment, and it came from a hundred and fifty years of government contract. Let me get some music in here. Right? These contracts were honored for one lineage over another. Right? You know, if we look at the numbers today, uh we we can talk about white high school dropout and the medium wealth in this country than a than it than the over a black college graduate. You know, they you often hear about that hard work and pull yourself so by the bootstrap. If those were the only variables, that math doesn't work. Think about it. But it does work because the system was designed to provide a floor for one group that is higher than the ceiling for the FBA slash freedmen. And just like uh Vince Ellison was saying in that little clip, you know, he's one of these black Christian, so-called Christian conservatives. You know, they'll tell you, oh, just move on. Right? And today we're gonna we're gonna dip into some scriptures for those same Bible-thumping Christians. We're gonna go into the book of Leviticus, we're gonna go into the book of James, and we're gonna see if if the biblical God calls for a hug or calls for restitution. That's what we're gonna do today. You know, as black, black people don't ask for no handout. We're here to collect a debt. And if you talk about the debt without without the acknowledging the privilege that was built use using the this the stolen principle, come on, what are we talking about? You know, so we're gonna take our time and let that. I'm gonna let those things marinate for a minute, and then we can uh we can go into it. We can go into it. Alright. Let's uh let's do it this way. Let's let's just uh we're just gonna try to see if we can can um frame this and get get the get the picture of of what we mean by white privilege. Hold on just a second. Let me get a little sip of tea, in fact. I got I gotta slow drip this thing, family. I gotta slow brew it, slow brew it. Because this this um it's a lot, it's a lot taking all of this in. Give me a second. All right, let's do it this way, right? And we we talking to the to the black conservatives and white deniers of white privilege. We're gonna try to move this thing away from feelings or social justice language, which which they often view as subjective, and we're gonna try to move towards hard data, property rights, and government records and stuff like that. And I have that stuff here. So just hang on, just just bear with me for a minute. And because I said, like I said, we got a slow brew this thing. Uh privilege. I'm wanna I wanna just move away from that for a minute. And the language I want to use for that is is a more firm fitting, and and I I call it state-sponsored competitive advantage, other than privilege. Right? Because privilege is is loose and it's light. So yeah, that's what we will that's it keep that in mind. State-sponsored competitive advantage. And we're gonna, we're gonna, these, I think I'm gonna read off here three pillars that that uh I think will give this some some will establish some historical uh structure and reality, right? Let's start with the Homestead Act versus the Freeman's Bureau, and and we'll call this the land gap. You know, really it's the smoking gun. While the freemen were denied their 40 acres, the U.S. government was concurrently giving away 270 million acres of Western land to predominantly white settlers via the Home State Act of 1862. Now that math uh is it's it would be estimated that nearly 46 million living white Americans today are the beneficiaries of wealth passed down from those original land grants. Think about that. In the argument, this this wasn't hard work versus laziness, it was a massive government subsidy that one lineage was eligible for and another was legally excluded from, right? And the second one would be the social security occupational exclusion. And and we're gonna be, you know, hopefully we have time to go into the to the data because I have it up here with me. So just just like I said, this is a slow brew, slow brew, right? When the Social Security Act was passed in 1935, it deliberately excluded agricultural and domestic workers. The two sectors were the vast majority of the freedmen's descendants worked at that time. The result was white families began building a state guaranteed safety net and retirement wealth, while black families were forced to work until they died or rely on children, preventing those children from building their own wealth. And the point the point being is this this was structural design, not a cultural failure. This was structural design, right? Back to that state-sponsored competitive advantage. Remember that, that term or that phrase. Right. Now we go to the third one, the FHA and the appraisal gap. That still happens. Still happens today. Between 1934 and 1962, the Federal Housing Administration, FHA, insured over 120 billion home loans. More than 98% of that went to white families. Do I have to say that over again? The the FHA insured over$120 billion. This is in 1934 to 1962,$120 billion in home loans. For more than 98% of that$120 billion went to white families. This was the primary way Americans paid for college and started businesses. Can we agree on that? Can we agree on that, family? Alright. I think most of you agree on that, right? So we can move on. Then the reality was if a white family's house grew in value by a thousand percent over 40 years, while a black family was barred from the same neighborhood or denied a loan, that that's not privilege, right? That's not privilege. That's a state protected monopoly on equity. That's what that is, family. That's not even privilege. That's that's beyond privilege. Right? Slow, bro. We're gonna take it slow, we're gonna take it nice and slow. You know, think of it like this: if a contract is signed uh and and the government refuses to honor it, but the but honors the contract of your neighbor, that neighbor has a structural advantage. And we just asking for the for the contracts to be honored, right? And this that's to the black conservative. Now, to the white denier, you don't have to be a racist to benefit from a structural reality. Right? We can agree on that. If your grandfather got a GI Bill mortgage and mine was denied one, your starting line was moved forward by the government, not by your personal merit. And that's what happened a lot of times with those GI bills. And we got the, like I said, family, we got the math up here to prove it. Right. Think about this, fam. Let me ask you this. If if we agree that the government can create wealth through policy, like the Homestead Act, the GI Bill, then how could it be a myth? When we point out those same policies were used to systematically bypass foundational black Americans, descendants of the freedmen, right? How can we deny that? You know, and then you you could go look into wealth versus the education system. You know, even when white people try to deny it, they often argue that hard work and education are the great equalizers, right? But in recent Federal Reserve and census data, and this is updated through 2024, 2025, right? Recent shows that the system actually uh rewards the same effort differently based on lineage. Yeah. You know, if the system was purely uh uh merit merit meritocratic, a college degree should be the ultimate shield against poverty, right? But the structure the structural reality shows that the floor for one group is higher than the ceiling of another, as I stated before. The high school dropout. Recent studies show that that white households headed by a high school dropout often have a higher median net worth than black households headed by college graduate. Uh is around$30,000,$40,$30,000 to$40,000. Varying, you know, it varies. A black college graduate media's wealth, medium wealth is$25,000 to$35,000. You know, then we can look at stuff like inheritance and the head start, you know, things of that nature. Even times at the same educational level, white graduates are three times more likely to receive an inheritance, an inheritance than black graduates. The average white inheritance is over$150,000, while the black average uh inheritance is uh, if it exists at all, is under$40,000. All right? The return on investments, that's a problem. All right, a black man with a bachelor's degree has a lower median wealth than a white man with only a G D. This is this is not a like of culture, family. It's not a like of culture or a like of effort, it's a structural defect. Right? They call it the ROI, the return on investments, the ROI. Black labor in education is being suppressed by the like of inherited capital and home equity barriers. Right? And I can go into the white safety net, I can say something about that, but I want to get to these numbers. Let me see, can I find these numbers here? You know, you got these guys like like like these uh Larry Elders and Vince Ellison and all of these um conservatives, you know, they they'll tell you, uh uh just do everything the right way. Buy a home. And the property is is frequently appraised at lower values than identical homes in white neighborhoods. But you know, they'll tell you, you know, just just just uh you know, try to do everything the right way and be good, go don't get no trouble and all of this stuff like that. And most of that stuff doesn't eat it really doesn't even matter. Right? Let me see, can I find something here? I want to get to these numbers. Yeah, that that's the property trap for homeowners. When they when they uh do everything right, buy a home, and uh their property is frequently appraised at a lower value. Same same type of property as a as a white family, it it gets and sometimes at a rate of forty forty eight thousand dollars. And and in uh homes in in majority black neighborhoods are are largely undervalued by an average of forty-eight thousand dollars per home. This is a direct theft on on equity that has nothing to do with homeowners personal character. You know, so all of that stuff, you know, don't get no trouble. Don't be bringing the police around and eh, okay, all right. You know, so well we now we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna try to take a look at at um some specific 2024 Federal Reserve survey of consumer finances. You know, and we're gonna break these tables down. We're gonna break them down. Hold on here. Yeah, it's it revoced these uh two yeah, this these uh Federal Reserves and Census Bureau reports. These numbers, anchor. Okay, the data table. Okay, all right. Here it goes, family. Let me get the bed back in here. All right, here it goes. The wealth gap by education, medium net worth, right? Education level. Uh let's go to white households, black households, right? And the gap. No high school diploma. You're talking about white house high uh households is uh$38,000 with no high school diploma. And a black household is five to eight thousand dollars. Six time difference with a high school diploma,$107,000 medium for a white household. Black household with high school diploma is is anywhere between$15,000 to$20,000. That is a five times difference, a negative five times difference, I should say, for both categories. Negative six time difference and a negative five time difference. Now, this is not Vaughn Black up here talking, family. This comes from the Federal Reserves and Census Bureaus, right? This is what we're talking about here. So all of those people that say, oh, oh, oh no, ain't no white privilege, man. You just gotta work hard. You know, the boot coons and boot. Let me not get sidetracked. Okay, let's let's go to a college degree, right? With a BAR or a BS, all right? For the white household, it's a hundred, it's four hundred and sixty, it's four four hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars compared to a a black home, it's anywhere between 44,000. This is with a Kyle's degree, right? Between 44,000 and 68,000, which equals a 7 to 10 percent, a negative 7 to 10 percent difference. And uh as of the latest data, the white high school uh dropout median median range, 38 to 40,000 hours, holds nearly the same or more median wealth as the average black household across all education levels. And and and to cement that a white high school graduate has roughly double the wealth of a black college graduate. That cements that. You know, to the to the to the black conservatives, you can argue if if the bootstrap theory were a structural reality, then a black bachelor's degree should be at least equal a white high school diploma, right? But the fact that it doesn't, and it's it's not even close, proves that the market for black labor and assets is being suppressed by non-merit uh merit factor. That factor is the struggle, structural legacy of Foundation of Black Americans and freedom being locked out of uh 20th century wealth uh building programs, social security, things like Social Security and FHA loans and the GI Bill, and we can go on and on and on, right? You know, if if black college graduates are twice as likely to be providing financial support to their parents or extended family that their white counterparts that rather than their white counterparts, the takeaway the takeaway privilege is not just about what you get, it's about what you don't have to give away. White privilege is the context. And in this context is is is the f is the freedom from the tax of generational poverty. Think about that. Think about it. As I said, family, this is a slow, slow brew here. And we gonna we we almost up here, ours, so we gotta get ready, get out of here. I got a lot of stuff up here, but but I I um I got so much stuff up here, I can just just but you get the picture, right? You know, a lot of these people, they just they just they they want to prove that anyone can make it through hard work and faith, right? These are these are the the Christians that you know they they they gotta downplay structural advantages given to white people or given to white men, I should say that. You know, for them to admit that these advantages exist, for them it would be to admit that their own success might have been harder, or someone else's failure might have been, might not have been their fault. Right? That's why they don't, they don't, you'll never hear uh some people like Vince Ellison and Larry uh Elder and uh Jesse Lee Peterson and these guys, these boot licking guys and and and gals, you'll never hear them say nothing about about no white folks. You know, you know, my thing is how do you claim to be a biblical conservative and ignore the concept of restitution in Exodus and Leviticus? If a man's property is stolen or his labor is exploited, the law doesn't tell the victim to uh clean up his act. It tells the the thief to pay back fourfold. So by you attacking uh FBAs and freedmen and protecting the debtor, you you're actually standing against biblical justice. That's to you, black coonservatives. You know, and let's see, let me see, can I get in uh let's yeah, let's get in some of this bottle, just some of this Bibles for these Bible thumping uh uh folks, right? Since we talking to black Christian conservatives, right? You know, you know, you know, they claim to follow this justice. You know, justice isn't just to me, it's not just saying you're sorry, it's the financial and structural structural transaction. All right, and we're gonna we're gonna touch on some some scriptures here, right? And this this I call this the re the the requirement of principle plus 20%. And this is in Leviticus, pay attention, family. This is in Leviticus chapter 6, verse 4 and 5. Let me turn this music down because I don't want to like say I'm disrespecting the Bible. You're disrespecting the Bible. You don't believe in God, you're disrespecting the Bible. Alright. In Leviticus chapter 6, verse 4 and 5. Then it shall be because he hath sinned and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, he shall even restore it in the principle, and shall add the fifth part more thereto. The Bible doesn't say pray for the thief. It says the thief must restore the principal plus interest. So if the U.S. government deceitfully took the labor of the freedmen, the biblical mandate isn't moving on, isn't moving on. That's not the biblical, just move on. It's restitution plus 20%. This is why we we start talking about uh reparations. This this is what we gotta keep in mind, family. And I'm not gonna keep y'all too much longer. We're just gonna go through a couple of more. Just gonna go through a couple of more here. If you if you just stay with me, stay with me for a little bit. All right, the sin of unpaid wages. This is what I call this part, and we go with that. We go to to the book of James, uh chapter 5, verse 4. Behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which uh which is which is of you, which is which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth, and the and the cries of them which have reaped or or entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath, into the ears of the Lord of the Sabbath. Let me read that again. This is James chapter 5, verse 4. This is for unpaid wages, that reparations. Yes, behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them which have reaped down, have reaped or entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath. Yeah, that's this is our verse, family. FBA, my freedmen. This is our verse. Our ancestors reaped the fields of this nation, right? And that wealth was kept back by fraud, right? You remember me telling you up here, my grandfather was a sharecropper, and sharecropper was nothing but a beat. That was another form of slavery, that's all it was after it was abolished, right? The Bible says those unpaid wages are literally crying out to God. How, how, you black conservatives, how do you uh uh claim to be a Bible believer, right? You're a Bible thumper, and tell those wages to be quiet, right? That's what you tell us. We cry too much, you know. We we begging and crying and begging about the white man, we crying about the white man and complaining. Y'all sick of the victimhood mentality, right? But you a Bible thumper, and this this is what the verses are saying. This is not this is not Vaughn Black talking, this. This is the book, your good book, man. King, I hope y'all get this. King, my man, peace to my peace to the God. Man, blow they back out with this. Generational debt and the eating of sour grapes. We go to the book of Ezekiel, chapter 18, verse 2. What mean ye that that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. You know, these are to my white deniers, to the white deniers of white privilege. You know, a lot of them will say, Well, I didn't own no slaves. But the Bible acknowledges that the sour grapes eaten by the fathers, the thief of the land and labor, left the children's teeth on edge. The structural wealth gap, that's what that is. You are living in a house built with stolen bricks. You don't have to be the thief to be to be responsible for the unjust enrichment you're sitting in. Right? You didn't do it, but you you you you reaping the benefits from it. You're sitting in the house that was built by it. Now we go down to the to the precedent in the foreclosure in the book of Nehemiah. Oh man, we put in belt as tonight. We putting belt the ass tonight. I gotta say it. I gotta say it, family. Oh, Nehemiah chapter 5, verse 11. Restore, I pray you to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive yards, and their houses. Also the hundredth part of the money and of the corn, the wine and the oil that ye exact of them. When Nehemiah saw his people being cursed, family, by debt and losing their ancestral lands, he didn't tell them to work harder. He commanded the wealthy and the government to restore the land and the interest immediately. This is the Bible's definition of social justice. Right. Now, to you black conservatives and you white deniers, right? I I've showed you tonight the structural advantage. And and a lot of this stuff is actually a violation of the very book you carry around and you thump on, right? Wise and all y'all at the at the righteous perspective. You know, a lot of talk, that Bible talk, that Bible. Right? But yeah, family. Well, we're gonna we're gonna, I would it was one more thing, I'm gonna leave that right there and just let y'all marinate on that. Right? We're gonna leave that there. And um there was one more thing that uh, and I'm gonna this is gonna be, I'm gonna create a a multi-episode kind of mini-series about this thing, about the delineation and stuff. It's so much. It's so much. Sometimes I think I gotta I gotta broadcast maybe more than once a week. Maybe I gotta come up here another night or two. Well, you know, and and and and do this. But I don't, I don't, I don't, I like to, you know, I like to let things marinate a little bit and stretch it out a little bit. But yeah, family, the other thing, you know, there was there was talk about this, um, let me leave out of there and go into uh there was a clip, and this was from YouTube Hold on, about a woman that um said some very derogatory things towards black Americans. And um it was caught. Let me see, what the hell is going on with it? Hold on. Alright, there it is. Alright, but yeah, I wanna I wanna get I wanna find this uh uh let me see. Can I find this thing here? Yeah, here it is, right here. Let me see. This is it. Hold on Haitian.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:18

Why? Where you from? What's your background? You American? Dirty black American?

SPEAKER_02 1:06:23

Wait, what?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:24

Huh? Huh? Wait, what you said? American? Black American? What?

SPEAKER_02 1:06:27

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hold on, hold on, hold on. You said dirty black American.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:30

You heard that? You just asked me what I said. I did. I did.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:33

Why you said that?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:35

Because that's what y'all are. Dirty black American. She just said I did. A dirty black American. I sure did. Because that's what y'all are. So ball Americans are dirty black Americans. I mean, you know, someone's off coming across.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:49

So what is what is Haitians then? I'm confused.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:51

Dirty black Haitians. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:52

So keep that energy for everybody. I'm just keep it for us. Like, what are you talking about? Yeah, hell yeah. Don't ever say no dirty black Americans. Like, what do you think? My family, like, yeah. Okay, we're. Why matter?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:02

No, I'm just asking. No, we're we're not having a lot of things.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:05

It's the South, regardless. Like, I got family in Florida. I got family in Georgia.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:08

I mean, I want to know.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:09

Like, where No, you're trying to be, I know what you're doing, like. I know what you're doing.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:14

Oh. Yeah, family. That was on a podcast. I forget there's some young kids that got a podcast. What's the name of that show? What is the name of it? I had it, I had it, I should have written it down. Because I didn't actually know I was gonna go into that. Hold on. Let me see. Hold on. Played it again.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:35

Where you from? What's your background? You American? Dirty black American? How damn you? Huh?

unknown 1:07:41

Huh?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:43

American? Black American? What? No, no, no, no, no. Hold on, hold on, hold on. You said dirty black American.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:47

You heard that? You just asked me what I said. I did. I did.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:51

Why you say that?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:53

Because that's what y'all are. Dirty black American.

Summing The Structural Case

SPEAKER_05 1:07:57

Yeah, family. Now, this was a podcast. Some young cats got. It's like two or three of them that have a part, I forget the name of it, but she was up there to do an interview or whatever. And she walked into the studio. I guess, see, people are trying to decipher it, and why would she do that? Why would she say these things? The reason why she did that when she walked in there, she thought she was amongst other Caribbean people. This is why she was comfortable saying that. When they asked her who, you know, who she is and we know where she's from, she said she was Asian. And she went into that dirty black American thing. But see, this is how they talk amongst each other. And she thought they were the rest of them in there might have been Caribbean, and that's how they talk. But then to her surprise, they weren't. They were FBA. They were foundational. Black Americans, freedmen. Right? And they they soft-checked her. You heard a lot of giggling and you know, what'd you say? They checked her, but they soft, they soft-checked her family. They soft-checked her, they didn't check her uh with a hard check and tell her about herself, and then I would have asked her to leave the studio. Get out of here. Beat it. They didn't do that. Right? And uh they sat there and giggled. You know, one the one guy, he was trying to check her, but it was a soft check. He was holding his head down, looking at his navel, I guess. It was a it was a soft check, but he nonetheless did. He spoke up, he spoke up on it. And now let me tell you, the woman, she wasn't a bad-looking girl, she had a hella body on her. That that onion was popping. And that's what that's what happens with most of these cats. These dudes with these women, they they can come in, and this is why these women can be so disrespectful. Because from my to my understanding, and I seen it, this was the second time that it happened on this show with a Haitian woman where she came in disrespectful. There was another girl up there talking about well, black Americans Black Americans ain't got no culture, and this, this, and that. And um they they let that kind of they let that kind of thing ride. Because, you know, like I said, the girl, she she she was not a bad-looking girl at all, you know, and she and she had a body on her, and this is why that kind of stuff gets a pass, why they soft checked her. Instead of standing, you know, standing on G code and and giving her the hard check and asking her to leave. Now you can leave now. Because ain't nothing else to talk about. You violated, you crossed the line. You know, if we owe you some money, here's your money, here's your wages. Now get out of here. Don't come back. Let the door hit you in that split. You know, but family, we're gonna get ready and blow out of here. That would that was it for today. And uh once again, I want to thank you for coming back. I want to thank you for coming back and just spending a little time with us this morning. I hope we were able to say something, some things up here that you can walk away with and and reflect on for the rest of the week. And uh, you come back and we'll do it again. We'll do it again. Must respect life, love justice, cherish freedom, and treasure the peace. Y'all go in peace and keep the peace.