Black Americans must adapt financial behavior around a tax code built on white norms

Evidence

In our current system, if you are a black American, the best way to get ahead is either by aligning your behaviors with white preferences and practices or by listening to your own preferences, but taking precautions. If you choose to mimic white behavior, do not expect to have the same freedom of choice that your white peers have. (And remember, there’s a good chance your white peers have a safety net, in the form of family support or gifts, that they’ve never told you about.) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 531

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White taxpayers benefit from filing provisions that burden black Americans. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 536; Race-aware tax policy can close the wealth gap while restoring the system’s original intent — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 514; The tax system’s college financing incentives benefit whites and enlarge the racial wealth gap — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 331 (+9 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: White taxpayers benefit from filing provisions that burden black Americans. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 536; Race-aware tax policy can close the wealth gap while restoring the system’s original intent — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 514; The tax system’s college financing incentives benefit whites and enlarge the racial wealth gap — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 331 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Tax policy rewards the downward-flowing wealth pattern typical of white families #corroborates (0.92) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 465