odinsblog:

MLK is always relevant. Books like, When Affirmative Action was White help explain why “bootstrap theory” is an argument that only the uninformed or willfully ignorant would believe – because it ignores how the US government intentionally and systematically denied black people things like boots, bootstraps, land, housing, education, etc. – all while making those same things as accessible and as affordable as possible to white people.

The wealth gap between blacks and whites in America was not an accidental creation. Generational wealth isn’t something white people “earned” because of their hard work and meritorious behavior. And generational unemployment & poverty in black communities isn’t because of some inherent character flaw, or due to laziness. It’s the result of an opportunity gap that was intentionally baked into the system with pro-white, anti-black government policies.