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Year after year, economic statistics demonstrate the continuing U.S. racial wealth gap, a living legacy of the binding of wealth creation to race at the time of the nation's founding. At that time, only White people could legally accumulate wealth and property; African Americans, on the other hand, were property. For over two centuries, African Americans were not permitted to collect any of the income that resulted from their own labor; that money went instead into White pockets, to be accumulated and passed on to White heirs. What is the magnitude of the wealth gap today? In 2019, the median American White family had approximately $171,000 in net wealth, while the median African American family had approximately $17,000—or about one dime for every White dollar (Based on Broyles, 2019).