Black-White Wealth Gap

Black-White Wealth Gap

The Black-White Wealth Gap
Analysis

This article was extremely informative. There were a lot of numbers and statistics. The article focuses mostly on how African-Americans have been cheated in the past. They do this to make connections to why there is such a big wealth gap between blacks and whites. The writer gives several examples such as “black codes”, Homestead Act, and how Social Security excluded most black workers. The second half of the article offers solutions to fixing this problem. All the solutions were focused on helping the poor. This article most reminds me of a Conservative writer named Irving Kristol. I feel this way mostly because the article and Kristol both discuss ways to help the poor class. Both are in favor of economic growth in society. This means that the poor class needs to be helped with government programs.
The main point the article is making is that there is a substantial economic differences in black and white families. The article says “that this racial wealth gap accounts for many of the racial differences in socioeconomic achievement that have persisted in the post-civil rights era. The article also makes the point that we could narrow this gap between black and white families by providing different government policies. The article is trying to persuade the reader that the government is mostly focused on the rich and not enough on the poor.   The writer does this by not using any inflammatory words, but Conley does quote W.E.B. Du Bois, coin some terms such as “White flight” and “Equity Inequity,” and uses alarming statistics. I believe the Conley is a conservative.