These numbers are staggering :

Black wealth has been systematically stolen:

💰 $20+ trillion: value of labor stolen during slavery — the foundation of U.S. capitalism

💰 $6.4 trillion: denied after the Civil War when "40 acres and a mule" was rescinded

💰 98% of federally backed home loans between 1934–1968 went to white families — while Black families were redlined, blocked by racial covenants, or funneled into scams with no equity or protection

💰 $3.2–4 billion: extracted from Black buyers in mid-century contract sales (e.g. Chicago), where they paid inflated prices without rights

💰 $326 billion: Black farmland stripped by Jim Crow law and USDA discrimination

💰 $70–100 billion: lost when Black WWII veterans were excluded from the GI Bill

💰 $156 billion: missing today due to home devaluation in Black neighborhoods

💰 $218 billion: denied through modern mortgage and credit discrimination

💰 $30+ trillion total in compounded, intergenerational Black wealth theft — including stolen inventions, burned Black towns, collapsed Black banks, and every policy that made poverty look like fate

Black families are 13% of the population but hold just 2.6% of U.S. wealth.

This is a generational heist not a wealth gap.

Legal. Violent. Ongoing.