White households are 4.5 times likelier than black ones to receive a financial transfer.

Evidence

White households, in contrast, are four and a half times more likely than their black peers to receive a gift or an inheritance. A study that tracked black and white families over twenty-seven years, from 1984 to 2011, showed that almost half (46 percent) of white households received some type of financial transfer, while only one in ten black households did. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 466