Black families have inherited psychological stress where white families inherited wealth

Evidence

For most Black citizens, passing down a more substantial financial inheritance or a business such as the one Elmore Bolling was building when he was killed has been—and remains—a dream out of reach. Instead of wealth, millions of Black families have passed down something else from one generation to the next: the mental and emotional stress that results from the constant threat of white violence and financial insecurity. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 911

Categorization

• XREF: Frames inheritance as including stress and insecurity, complicating the usual asset-only notion of inherited disadvantage; connects to the reader’s foundational-vs-peripheral distinction. — connects to: Financialization creates a bifurcated hierarchy between celebrated risk-takers and racialized at-risk victims — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 45