A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues: What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues: What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community

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  • Create Date:2021-05-26 09:19:20
  • Update Date:2025-09-06
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  • Author:Steven S. Rogers
  • ISBN:1119794773
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Summary

Learn how to address racial wealth disparity in the United States today

From the life, professional experiences, and research of former Harvard Business School professor Steven Rogers, comes his boldly stated, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues。 This informative epistle investigates the causes of racial wealth disparity in the United States and provides solutions for addressing it。 Through extensive data and historical research, anecdotes, teaching, and case studies, it presents practical ways White people can work with and help the Black community。 It teaches readers that eliminating the $153,000 wealth gap between Black and White people is the solution to over 75% of our problems and offers solutions to help improve Black-White racial relations in the United States。

In straightforward language, filled with facts, stories, advice, and sometimes even humor, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues encourages every White person to share his/her wealth with the Black community--plain and simple。 This book recommends that you spend a portion of your annual household budget with Black-owned companies。 If more money is spent at Black-owned businesses, those companies can grow and create more jobs for Black people。 Rogers also proposes White people make large savings deposits into Black-owned banks。 These are the financial institutions that are the backbone of the Black community that provide loans to the Black community for businesses, education, automobiles, and home mortgages。

And finally, he resolutely encourages White people to support government reparations to Black Americans who are descendants of Black men and women, who were enslaved from 1619 to 1865。 Those who read the book will:

Understand the root causes of racial disparities in America Discover how you can personally contribute to reducing the inequality between Black and White people in the United States today Get concrete recommendations on how to redirect your spending to Black-owned institutions to help decrease the racial wealth gap This groundbreaking book provides financial recommendations that you can put into practice today, using his helpful instructions in most of the chapters, to address the systemic inequality between White and Black Americans。 Read A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues and be part of the path forward。

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Reviews

Brenda

This is a much needed and practical book to help people identify real, actionable ways to help the black community。 It’s simple, really, the way the author explains it: use your money。 Donate to historically black colleges, use black-owned banks, support black-owned businesses, and push our elected leaders to do something about reparations。 We all have the power to help enact change, and it’s a great and simple way to do it。 The author gets a bit long-winded at times—he was quite proud to mentio This is a much needed and practical book to help people identify real, actionable ways to help the black community。 It’s simple, really, the way the author explains it: use your money。 Donate to historically black colleges, use black-owned banks, support black-owned businesses, and push our elected leaders to do something about reparations。 We all have the power to help enact change, and it’s a great and simple way to do it。 The author gets a bit long-winded at times—he was quite proud to mention his changes to Harvard, and rightfully so—but the dearth of his research and personal experiences are beneficial to the overall book。 I learned some thing about history I didn’t know, most notably about black Wall Street in Tulsa。 That flaw is just one of many he’s able to point out through the pages of this book。Anyway, when you get right down to it it’s easy。 Use your money。 。。。more