The American system is built to convert black labor into white wealth

Evidence

Black Americans knew how to work, but the system was built to generate white wealth, and it would continue to do that, just using different forms of black financial exploitation. History reveals our addiction to reaping the benefits of black labor while simultaneously preventing black wealth creation, which also meant destroying what little wealth black people did manage to cobble together. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 475

Categorization

• XREF: States in one paragraph the saturated-system claim that the reader must defend in the reparations argument. — connects to: Whiteness is the load-bearing fiction behind America’s racial architecture. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 65