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  • A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

  • What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community
  • By: Steven Rogers
  • Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
  • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

By: Steven Rogers
Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
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This informative epistle investigates the causes of racial wealth disparity in the United States and provides solutions for addressing it.

In straightforward language, 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 that 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 listen to 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; and get concrete recommendations on how to redirect your spending to Black-owned institutions to help decrease the racial wealth gap.

©2021 Steven S. Rogers, Inc. (P)2021 Gildan Media
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Somewhat informative. Poor arguments

Essentially this entire book can be summarized with this:

Blacks have suffered a lot of mistreatment at the hands of whites since 1619 in the USA. The effects of this mistreatment has had a long term impact on blacks that is still apparent today. Therefore, you should give money to blacks.

His arguments never get more complex than that. In some cases this argument is okay but in many applications it is far to simplistic and illogical. I started to get the impression that the author might be downright racist by the end.

Some people are poor due to historical circumstances that are not there fault (slavery is just one of many variables here).

It’s easy to measure how poor someone is. It is not easy to measure how black someone is. There is no reason we can’t use wealth as the deciding factor for our social welfare policies. Why would we draw a race line when we don’t have too? Doing so will leave people out who probably should receive financial aid and take money from those who should not be taken from.

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