White honesty about inherited advantage is a precondition for dismantling the racial gap

Evidence

There is one more critical step that white taxpayers need to take: Be honest about the advantages you have received, and recognize that even if they don’t seem like much to you, they are very likely more than what your black peers have. As long as white families downplay and dismiss the generational advantages they’ve received, there is no way to make an honest comparison between opportunities and outcomes. Dismantling the anti-black nature of the system requires both radical policy change and radical transparency from white Americans. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 539

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that white families ‘downplay and dismiss’ received advantages connects to the reader’s interest in how legal neutrality plus unequal starting conditions reads as merit.