Racial violence and discriminatory law stripped wealth from self-sufficient blacks

Evidence

At times, those mechanisms did not prevent blacks from achieving self-sufficiency, and through some miracle, black people still managed to own things and benefit from their own labor. But when that happened, private white actors used racial violence to strip property away from blacks and award it to white Americans who neither tilled nor toiled. States employed racially discriminatory legal actions like eminent domain to do the same, while sundown towns—places where black Americans could work but had to be gone by sundown or put their very lives at risk—made sure black people were forbidden from living there, much less building wealth there. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 47

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘white wealth building’ causal claim echoes the anti-redistribution racetrack discussed in Brown’s own Whiteness of Wealth — connects to: Black elites’ fortunes were bound to the masses through shared Jim Crow constraints — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 285