Giving Compass' Take:

• The authors at Inequality.org give eight solutions to ensure economic recovery reduces the racial wealth gap and how to address white supremacy.

• How can we start to evaluate and move past our white fragility around speaking about racism? Why is it important to understand race and racism as a system?

• Here’s an article on ending white supremacy in ourselves. 

On June 19th, people across the United States will mark the anniversary of the emancipation of the last enslaved people in the United States by taking to the streets to demand Black Lives Matter.

Behind the protests over police violence are the painful racial disparities in the COVID-19 pandemic. And behind those health disparities is the persistent and glaring racial wealth divide that has weakened the body politic.

The racial wealth divide is where the past shows up in the present. The glaring gap in wealth reflects the multigenerational history of white supremacy in the United States and the systematic denial of wealth-building opportunities to Black people. Chattel slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, and predatory loans are reflected in the wide disparities in bank accounts, homeownership, financial wealth, and overall well-being between white people and Black and Latino people in the United States.

In our new report, White Supremacy is the Pre-existing Condition, we found that the concentration of wealth has surged during the pandemic, further exacerbating an already extreme racial wealth divide.

Read the full article about white supremacy by Dedrick Asante Muhammad, Darrick Hamilton, Chuck Collins, and Omar Ocampo at Inequality.org