Can Black Love Survive Without Black Wealth? Tonetalks Dash Radio

Attorney Antonio & Political Commentator Yvette Carnell discuss whether black marriages & relationships can grow in a time of extreme wealth inequality. Moore asks Carnell, and callers into the show what their ideas are about black wealth, and black love in the twenty first century.

Antonio Moore piece in the Los Angeles Sentinel

Excerpt: Black wealth has been disappearing since 2007. That loss only grew under our first black President. The question now is what will happen under President Donald Trump? From his plans on tax reform, to his recent executive order removing funding for the Affordable Health Care act subsidies the picture looks grim for those most in need of assistance. In my prior piece I spoke of a new study by the Institute for Policy studies, which has stated that on our current economic track the median black family is going to be worth zero dollars by 2053. According to the study
Between 1983 and 2013, median black household wealth decreased by 75% to $1,700 and Latino household wealth fell 50% to $2,000. At the same time, median white household wealth rose 14% to $116,800.If this trend continues, an African American born in 2013 will see her household wealth hit zero by the time she turns 40.
In addition, using the new Federal Reserve data for 2016 what we see is that without the family car the middle black family in America is worth just about $4,000 today. In my piece with economist Matt Bruenig we showed,
Without the family car, the middle black family has a net worth of $4,160. The middle white American family in contrast is still worth $140,600. This means, using an accounting model that more excludes the family car, the median white family is worth over 33 times that of the median black family… There is a similarly daunting gap between black families at the 99th percentile and their white counterparts. The 99th percentile black family is worth a mere $1,574,000 while the 99th percentile white family is worth over 12 million dollars. This means over 870,000 white families have a net worth above 12 million dollars, while, out of the 20 million black families in America, fewer than 380,000 are even worth a single million dollars. By comparison, over 13 million of the total 85 million white families are millionaires or better.

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